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" As soon as the sermon was concluded , the Archbishop of Canterbury approached the King , and addressed him in these words— ' Sir , are you willing to take the oath usually taken by your predecessors ? ' The King answered , — ' I am willing . '
" The Archbishop then put the following questions from a book to the King ; the replies were made also from a book which his Majesty held in his hands . " Archbishop— ' Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom \> F Great Britain , and the dominions thereunto belonging , according to the statutes in Parliament agreed on , and the respective laws ami customs of the same ?'
" The King— ' I solemnly promise so to do . ' " Archbishop—* Will you , to the utmost of your power , cause law and justice in mercy to be executed in all your judgments . ?' " The King—* I will . ' " Archbishop—* Will you , to the utmost of your power , maintain the laws of God , the true profession of the Gospel , and the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law ? And will you maintain and preserve inviolate the
settlement of the Church of England , and the doctrine , worship , discipline , and government thereof , as by law established , within the kingdom of England and Ireland , the dominion of Wales , the town of Berwiek-upon-Tweed , and the territories thereunto belonging , before the union of the two kingdoms ? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England , and to the churches there committed to their charge , all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them , or any of them ?' " The King— ' All this I promise to do . '
" His Majesty then rose , and , attended by his supporters , went bareheaded to the altar ; where he knelt at the steps , and laying his hand upon the Gospels , said—* The things which I have here before promised , I will perform and keep : so help me God . ' The King then kissed the book , and signed . the oath . "
If the people of the British empire could be placed for a day in a state of nature , what scorn would put down the insolence of a party , ( which even now , " with all appliances and means to boot , " is but a minority of the population , and would , in that case , be a much smaller minority , ) which should dream of vaulting into such a position , with relation to all other religionists , as is contemplated by this oath ! It is true its contradictions make it a cobweb ; he who " maintains the laws of God and the true
profession of the gospel , " cannot also " maintain inviolate the settlement ot the Church of England , and the doctrine , worship , discipline , and government thereof ; " they involve principles opposite and irreconcileable ; but the grasping , the nefarious , the usurping design , is not the less obvious , nor the less deserving the stern reprobation of every Briton and every Christian . It attempts to make the kingdom of Christ a kingdom of this world , and to appropriate a kingdom of this world in the name of Christ . Inoperative it must be , for in this as in other cases , when the text will not adapt itself to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 708, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/56/
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