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    ih& ai * giimen * t' of force , is but a cowardly illustration of Dean Sherlock ' s * political doctrine of Religions Self-Defence—a doctrine which canhq £ _ Jl am sure , find its origin or authority in the New Testament , and the effects of which can only be ad" Verse ^ tS ^ tlfe ^ c aus e ^ in ^ w m ' eh' -4 t-4 s advocated and applied . Your writer goes on to assert , that a minister who has solemnly engaged to avoid everything which might create schism or break the union of the body to which he belongs , is bound to adhere to his professions / This would come well

    from a Roman Catholic , but proceeds with little grace from an Unitarian . Allowing' that a man can , upon entering a ministry * conscientiously contract engagements of this nature , can he bind himself to -make no neSv discoveries in truth ten years after , or must he padlock his lips when what-he Qonsiders fresh light breaks

    in upon him ? The propositionis monstrous . Upon this plan we should have been effectually secured against all reformation , both past and future . As to the unity which the plan is designed to produce , what is it but the old impossible unity of opinion , or unity of sotnd and gesture , setting quite aside the unity of heart , which

    Christians should ratl ^ r desire to cultivate , and which can only be secured by a mutual forbearance and tenderness in the matter of metaphysical subtleties . When your contributor describes the blessedness of being relieved from the presence of a Cabinist , he appears to me to overlook two important things , viz . that there is an unchristian as well

    as a Christian * way of being relieved from that which annoys one , and that to cherish an antipathy towards a man , for the sole crime of being and acting as a Calvinist , is to convert a proper subject of compassion into one of hatred . The Church of Geneva ' s im-* See Bishop of frangov ' ' Common Rights / ( Edit , 1719 f ) page 224—236 .

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    proveirient ifi sacred music } &' 5 ' ., is very well in its jsla&e , but it is a poor substitute fot departed charitf , and will not make anaendsf for tfo mischief and impolicy of fixinglimies to toleration . The advantage ( if it be one ) of our excluding a Calvim ' gt ~ -at— Ge nm&i—wonld ^ prio ! m ^ aus . » $ counterpoise to the evil which would , upon the . same principle ,, accrue , were all other communions , in the present and coming ages , to 'take your writer ' s view of religious ffeedoni . An ifnpeWtlrn iri iMptrio in politics is hardly compatible with good government , or an efficient executive foree * but in religion , it is

    a great desideratum , for the free action of intellect upon intellect , and of imagination upon imaging will turn out to be the only true ground of religious improvement and of ¦ reli gious peace * Had the Church of England in 1 ^ 20 behaved in the same manner Us the pastors 6 f ~ G ^ e ^" nO" 8 31 V ^ ^*^ ffM * "feS ; 1 f e banished from her oeminTinion a knot

    of divines such gs natv ' e ne ^ ver , iiithe records of riiy meinoryj lived and written in anyone age arid chiti ' ch beside . This she did not do—andifc is with regret that I observe in Europe a liberal Church of 1831 having less tolerance than an orthodox establishment of 1720 , yfet claiming at the same time the smile of Unitarian approbation . to

    If has beeri ^ ointfed tfut ; irip ; by one who has , I believe ^ the esteem of all who' will be likely to read this , that the party of Hoadley , in the beginning of the last century , we ' re men of too great moderation to provoke their adversaries in-the same degree in which-M . Gaiisseh ^ and . his

    • colleagues have vented their spleen upon the Geneva consistory ; but this remark , however just , does not exactlyreach my ques-tion , which is , not how far a minority may safely or justly provoke the power of a Majority , but whether civil or physical power can be rightly exercised at all , upon Unitarian priiarcipleis *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 1, 1833, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2605/page/6/