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    tisnr , Universalism , and Unitarianism , so far from one jostling the other out , are perfectly consistent with one another , and do , continually , form part of the same system . Nothing is more common , both here and in America , than for the Universalist to be an Unitarian-Baptist . The man had undergone , not four changes , but one change , which is quadrupled to produce an impression . The artifice is shallow , but not the less

    disingenuous . Much of the note consists of quotations from the memoirs of an enthusiastic individual , and the reports of certain Missionary Societies , documents evidently requiring large abatement on

    account of the well-known tendency of very zealous persons to speak of any religion except their own as no religion at alL Unless interpreted with such abatement , they are directly falsified by the statistical accounts to which we have referred . Moreover , the Bishop ' s italics are at work again on these statements * Thus : —

    ' When you count up the thousands in this city , and consider what a vast majority are living without God and without hope ; and especially when you look through this nation , and remember that not one in ten of its inhabitants professes ever to have received the Saviour of lost men , does not your bursting heart / &c . ( p . 58 . ) By these pictorial types , the Bishop starts in horror at only one Christian professor in ten , while the Establishment which he advocates produces only one Christian professor in thirty-eight .

    Another quotation is adduced , to show that * not "much less than half the population is without ' the regular administration of gospel ordinances . ' That is to say , the preachers and worship were of a different sect from the reporters , and in their opinion . irregular . The Bishop is officially bound to know the value of language in the p ^ uths of ecclesiastics , and should not pass it with the unleaiii for more than it is worth . So again ;— ' Over

    large portions of our country the mystery of iniquity is working ,. in setting up , instead of the pure truth of the everlasting gospel , arts of man ' s device . ' This is an elegant theological periphrasis for describing a different mode of faith or worship . The other party would very probably say the same of the preacher and tm creed and Church ; so that by putting the two assertions together , it might be demonstrated ( even though the two religions included all the population between them ) that there was not one religious

    person in the country . * Infidelity reigns there *— Truth is fast perishing '— ' Errors of every name take root , ' &c . &c . are all expressions to be interpreted by the same lexicon . A mission tvas proposed , and for aught we know , established in London , not very long ago , ' to enlighten the dark parts of the county of Surrey . * What evidence , for some transatlantic Blomfield , of the total failure of the English Establishment , insomuch that f vast districts are , to all appearance , rapidly sinking into hea-

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    Defence of the Church Establishment . 255

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1834, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2632/page/23/