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land , * it ftmst be acknowledged that in one sense at least the bench of bishops is very dear to the people . * It is too much to expect of those who have made no sacrifices or exertions to promote religious truth even according to their own estimate of truth , that they should make sacrifices and exertions to promote the reception of that religious truth which they do not yet even acknowledge to be true . If we judged of the future by the past , we
should say that it will be necessary to wait patiently till some Person arises to demonstrate the truth respecting the language of mystery ; and even then that we must wait patiently till it shall seem good to the bench of bishops to sanction by their authority truths of which themselves are convinced long before . The fact that the spuriousness of the text of the three Heavenly Witnesses has long been
demonstrated by a Porson to the bench of bishops , and that they have taken no steps to remove it from Bible and Liturgy , but have left it to confirm and sanction the creed of St . Athanasius whicli they ought long ago to have discarded from the service of the Church , as interpolated , unreasonable , and uncharitable , proves what maybe expected from their love of truth .
' As we trusted to the sense and resolution of the people , more especially of the Mechanics' Institutes and Political Unions , to demand of the Church a daily bread of sound knowledge , so we expect the people will demand of the Church a deliverance from the evils of fanaticism and bigotry and scepticism . The people need only reflect on the gross errors into which they have been led , not only by Southcotites and Irvingites , but by all the preachers of the new birth in their turn , to feel that they do indeed need instruction in the history
of religious opinions in order to protect them from the workings of an ignorant enthusiasm . And the people need only to reflect on the gross ignorance in which they have been kept respecting the real workings of God ' s Providence through the extended fields of nature and art , both in the physical and moral world , to feel that they need instruction in the objects and means of nature , in order to attain the physical and intellectual and moral state for which God has given them capacities and powers , * p . 28—38 .
* A discussion has taken place within the last week which puts this matter in a plain point of view We shall give a few extracts from the parliamentary report oi the TUmei for August the 12 th , 1833 : — 1 Mr . Littleton proceeded to state many instances in which resistance had heen made ( in Ireland ) to the collection of tithes . On one occasion a magistrate , accompanied by a large body of police , a troop of cavalry , and a troop of infantry , had gone out with a process server . They were opposed by a large body of peasantry , and repulsed with the loss of one soldier killed . They therefore retreated ; but as it was necessary to assert the authority of the law , they obtained a larger force of five companies of horse and foot , and the processes were at length served .
' Mr . Hume would ask whether , after paying for a military establishment of more than 20 , 000 men , they were novr to pny 1 , 000 , 000 / . from the pockets of the people of England to keep up that rotten establishment ; were they prepared to ^ o on paving this sum of 1 , 000 , 000 / . from year to year ? Ho wus sure , if the present House did it , the people of England would , when the opportunity offered , mark their sense of the conduct of those who dared to dispose of the public money in such a manner . 4 ie Would say , then , let the Church Establishment in Ireland be reduced to its proper limits , and if there were any deficiency in the amount of tithe , or difficulty in the mode of collection—as no doubt there would—let that deficiency be made up out of the temporalities of thut overgrown establishment .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 799, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/67/
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