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" If all cannot be of one mind, this doubtless is
more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian, that
many be tolerated rather than compelled.

"The favour and love of Heaven, we have great argument
to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending
towards us. Why also was this nation chosen before any
other, that out of her, as out of Sion, should be proclaimed
and sounded forth, the first tidings and trumpet of reforma-
tion to all Europe. . . . .... •
" Now once again by all concurrence of signs, God is
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even to the reform of reformation itself_ • • • What
wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise
and faithful labourers. What some lament of, we rather
should rejoice at, should rather praise this pious forward-
ness among men, to re-assume the ill-deputed care of their
religion into their own hands."_Areopagetica : Milton.
" Were a plain unlettered man, but endowed with com-
mon sense, and a certain quantum of observation and of
reflection, to read over attentively the four Gospels, and
the Acts of the Apostles, without any note or comment, I
hugely doubt whether it would enter into his ears to hear,
his eyes to see, or his heart to conceive, the purport of
many ideas signified by many words ending in ism, which
nevertheless have cost Christendom rivers of ink and
oceans of bIood."—CCCCLI.
" The schisms in the Church of Christ are deeply to
be lamented, on many accounts, by those who have any
regard for all that is valuable and worth preserving =angst
men ; and although we are willing to hope and believe
with Paley, that the rent has not reached the foundation,
yet are these differences (though not in essentials) most
particularly to be lamented, because they prevent the full
extension of the glorious light of the Gospel throughout
the world. The differences amongst ourselves, furnish
those whom we would attempt to convert with this plausi-
ble, and to them, I fear, unanswerable argument—with what
.face can you Christians attempt to make us converts to
your faith, when you have not yet decided amongst your-
selves what Christianity is? Surely it will be time enough
to make proselytes of others when you yourselves are
agreed."
Lacon ; or Many Things in Few Words ; addressed to
fewer persons"—those who think. _

" The devotional austerity exhibited in the Monastery
of La Trappe, as in many others, would be unaccountable,
if ages of experience did not teach us that enthusiasm in
matters of religion is as much a disease of the mind as
fever and atrophy are diseases of the body. The gloom of
the modern Methodists is of the same cast, but there is
method in their madness. There is a mixture of cunning
and hypocrisy in the character of the majority, which those
who mix with them soon detect, and the progress of know-
ledge among the common people at home has driven them
to foreign missions, where ignorance has a better field for
imposture."
The Editor's notice of Lady Wortley Montague's Let-
ters.— The Guide, No. 47.
1' The greatest curse which ever lighted on the earth
never produced consequences more deplorable than have
been produced by the doctrines of Calvinism. The worst
contagion that ever withered the energy, and bowed the
strength of the human frame, is not to be compared with
the prostration of mental vigour, and of moral integrity,
produced by the infection of that cant and self-pride and
fanaticism which is making such rapid strides amongst
us."—Editor.

" It' all circumstances," says the authoress, " left it as
matter of doubt whether Evangelical influence, as it is
impiously called, were productive of evil, the terrible
power which it is so constantly seen to have of destroying
family union, must be quite sufficient to settle the question.
Any person who will take the trouble to inquire into the
fact, will find that family affection has been more blighted
and destroyed by the workings of this fearful superstition
than by any other cause of which the testimony of man
bears record."
Vol. 2, p. 62, Mrs. Trollspe's Vicar of Wrexhill.—The
Guide, No. 48.
The Vicar of Wrezbill.—" A bonne boucle for the
saiitnht ss.o
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Produce of immortal mind i) in active circulation amongst
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bright intelligence" contained, to the hamlets of the em-
pire—then for an Archbishop of Canterbury to appear as
one of the Lords on the Commission fort giving the Royal
Assent to the " Dissenters' Declaration Bill"—(Morning
Herald)—it makes what is enjoined by the immortal bard
imperative—" for the people to re-assume the ill-deputed
care of their religion into their own hands again..
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fe(ka ,
" The Unitarians have not only stripped religion of
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velation was required, and reduced the whi)le to a belief
in a Supreme Being, and to a mere system of ethics,
hut have given such an indefensible interpretation of the
Scriptures as renders the sense of the Sacred Writing to
be inexplicable, and completely overturns the whole scheme
of God's providential operations.
" Let the conventicler be open and undisturbed, till
conviction of error closes the doors, and their congrega-
tions prefer the blessings of revelation to the unfounded
assertions of fancied worldly wisdom."

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tarianism, as it is called, are totally irreconcileable with
the general tenour of Divine Revelation.
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J. Rivington, Waterloo place, Pall-mall.
" I feel myself, as a minister of the Church of Christ,
justified in guarding against what appear to me to be the
consequences, naturally and evidently resulting from that
heterogeneous association of religious professors, for the
advancement of an object of at least questionable expe-
diency ; in the Bible being regarded as the general Text
Book of authority for all opinions ; as containing, if we
may so say, a sort of raw material, which every professor,
in the liberal spirit of the day, is left to work up and fashion
to his own peculiar taste ; as if, by a strange transposition
of the sacred language, diversity of opinion, not ' unity of
spirit,' was to become the bond of peace.' "

• • • • • • • •
Discourse I. John v. 39.—" Search the Scriptures ;
they testify of me • Our Saviour indeed
refers exclusively on this occasion to the Scriptures of the
Old Testament : those of the New not being then in ex-
istence All sound Members of the
Church, therefore, must consider themselves indebted to
champions, who, in the armour of truth, take the field
against those Go!iaths of infidelity, who, in our days of
rebuke and blasphemy, are come forth to defy the armies
of the living God; whose object is no longer confined to
insidious and disguised attacks on the Church of Christ ;
but has manifested itself in that open and determined hos
tility to it, which, in the paroxysms of their sceptical en-
thusiasm, they have promised themselves, will terminate in
its total destruction."
" Whilst the Jew then, who with the veil before his
eyes, acknowledges the Old Testament only to be the word
God, thereby rejects the council of God against himself ;
the unbeliever, under the Christian dispensation, does
more; for on the admission that the New Testament con-
tains also a Divine Revelation, he makes God a liar, by
denying the record which God has therein given of his
Son ; which record, in the plain language of the inspired
Baptist runs thus; that Jesus was the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.' "—John i., 29.

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Dialogues and Letters illustrative of the Doctrines of the
Established Church. Also Observations on some of the

Causes of Dissent from the Church. By Daniel Carpen-
ter, Esq. One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the Counties of Middlesex and Hertford.

Chap, 14, v. 8—" Philip saith unto him,' Lord, show us
the Father, and it sufficeth us.'

V. 9. "Jesus saith unto him—' Have I been, so long time
with you, and yet bast thou not known me, Philip ; he
that bath seen me bath seen the Father, and how sayest
thou then, show us the Father.'

V. H. " Believe me that I am in the Father, and the
Father in me ; or else believe me for the very works'
sake.

V. 12. " Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that be-
lie% eth on me, the works Ido shall he do also, and greater
works than these shall he do, because I go unto my
Father."

Proofs of the Divinity of Christ, pages from 36 to 42.
" For an Act passed in the 53d year of George 111. seems
to promise indemnity for every attack upon the doctrines of
the Bible, as promulgated by our Church at least."
" So that it seems blasphemy consists not in impiety or
profaneness, but in the mode in which impiety or profane_
ness is delivered. . . I think lam justified. (consider-
ing that this is the opinion of the Archbishop) in offering
some considerations to his Grace, as head under the King
of the Established Church
" But where were the twenty-three Bishops who were
averse to the measure ! We hear nothing of them. Mr.
William Smith mentions the Lord Chancellor and Chief
Justice as being the only persons who took objections.
Ezek. 8, v. 9—" And he said unto me, Go in, and be-
hold the wicked abominations that they do here.
V. 13—" He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again,
and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do."
How very applicable is the above to the transactions of
the Legislature and Bishops on the two Unitarian bills.
" Perfection can only be attained by gradual and pro-
gressive improvement. When we discover any defects in
our religious code which a lapse of time or experience
could alone disclose, a remedy should immediately be
adopted. If we find that a peculiarity of phraseology, or
a confused and undefined mode of expression, renders our
articles of religion obscure, it is the duty of those to whose
province the regulation of such matters belongs, to take
proper means to correct them. If the heads of the Church
find that those very articles which were intended to regu-
ate and expound the doctrine of our creed are not only
insufficient to that end, but are absolutely the foundation
of schism, it is a duty incumbent upon them to adopt wise
and salutary measures for amending them."—P. 245.
" How reprehensible then must the total neglect of this
duty be I How fatal the consequences, not only to those to
whom the religious and moral interests of the people are
intrusted, but to the people themselves, should supineness
and want of energy postpone the application of those reme-
dies, which can alone remove the evils with which we
hre surrounded till it is too late to be effectual."—P. 251,
Extracts.

National Education. The Bishop of Norwich said the
race of clergy which was now passing away bad had the
most favourable opportunity of instituting schools in their
parishes, and of educating the people in the principles of
the Church of England. If this had been done thirty
years ago, and education extended to teaching the children
obedience to and respect for the law, and the frugal hus-
banding of their means, would have been impossible to
have raised infuriated bands of malcontents like the Chart-
ists of the present day, and England would have a very
different aspect. He did not cast a general condemnation
on the clergy of that period, for many of them had fully,
done their duty ; but he regretted that so golden an op-
portunity had passed—an opportunity that would take the
greatest labour and energy of those anxious to impose on
the rising generation to reclaim."
The Sun, No. 14,657, August the Bth, 1839.

" We cannot, on this occasion, lay down our pen with
out endeavouring to impress on the religious and Pro-
testant part of the community, the unspeakable importance
of speedily taking measures to purify and purge the
Church."

6' If there be truth or consistency in man, sincere Pro-
testants must turn against those who have given such pro-
digious advantages to the Popish superstition."---.The
Morning Sun, Tuesday, September 10, 1839.
With this exhibition before the country, i. e., the Head
of the Church having taken no exception, but only provi-
ding, " how impiety and profaneness should be delivered,"
" if the golden opportunity" had not been suffered to es-
cape by the " generation of Clergy passing away," at whose
doors lay the reproach of " infuriated bands of Chartists of
the present day," then a Journalist with his ten thou-
sand tongues stimulating the people to purge and pu-
rify a Church," and " turn against those who have given
such prodigious advantages to the Popish superstition,"
what should be their compunction ! !
Published in 1811, price 7s. 61,
A Series of Discourses, in which it is urged that the
great Christian duty of maintaining Communion with the
Apostolical Church remains uncancelled by the tolerance
of British Laws, By Edward Davis, Rector of Bishopston,
in the Diocese of St. David's.

" But, it will be said, The Pope's authority has been
acknowledged. This is admitted. The usurper may take
the city by surprise, and the citizens may be compelled, for
a short time, to bow to his power. But he is not, there-
fore, the lawful governor. His act is an act of rebellion.
His expulsion is always lawful; for the Prince of the Cove-
nant, to whom our ultimate allegiance is due, still remains
amongst us. Under his glorious banner the usurper has
been expelled. And, together with his claim of authority,
his unfounded doctrines have justly been rejected; for a
solemn anathema is pronounced upon any man who shall
presume to teach any other Gospel than that which the
Church of Christ did receive, as taught by his Apostles.
And from the operation of this sentence the Pope and his
councils can plead no exemption."
"The Spirit of God in the Gospel enjoins the profession
of one immutable faith, the admission of one consistent
form of doctrine, and the observance of one orderly system
of discipline. Truth is still invariable. It is, therefore,
impossible the Spirit of Truth should at present teach a
diversity of faiths, a variety of doctrinal systems, and as
immunity from the laws of good order."
" It cannot, then, be maintained that in our days, and
without any degree of evidence, the same Spirit should con-
tradict itself, abrogate the laws of the Gospel, dissolve the
union of the Church, and authorise unlimited separation."
—Sermon V. on the Unity of the Church, p. 105.
" Upon the whole, then, it appears, from a due conside-
ration of the precepts of our Lord himself and his Apostles,
compared with their example and practice, that Christian
charity is not a principle which disposes us to please upon
all occasions—to sacrifice conscience and integrity at the
altar of peace—to accommodate, or even to countenance,
disorder in the nominal professors of our religion."—P.
196, Sermon IX. On the Sin of Separation.
" It is not easy to conceive how the kingdoms of this
world can become the kingdom of Christ, unless they be
governed by the principles of his Gospel, and committed
to the administration of Princes who shall advance the pros-
perity of the Church."
" Here all ranks are subjected to one common rule of
mutual dependance and co-operation."
" Tie language of the Gospel is simple and intelligible.
It enjoins unity, harmony, and co-operation amongst all the
members of the Church of Christ, whether they be civil
or spiritual officers, whether they be nobles or peasants."
—P. 360, Extracts.

" About that time (three hundred years after Christ)
there sprang up a heresy of a people called Arians—front
one Arius, the leader of them. These denied our Saviour
to be God, although they allowed all the rest of the Gos-
pel, wherein they were more sincere than their followers
among us. Thus the Christian world was divided into two
parts, till at length the Arians were condemned in a ge.
nrral Council, and a creed formed from the true faith, as
Saint Athanasius bath settled it.
On the Trinity. By Dr. Swift.

" I must therefore be so bold to affirm that the method
taken by many of those learned men ti defend the doc-
trine of the Trinity bath been founded upon a mistake.
" It must be allowed that every man is bound to follow
the rules and directions of that measure of season which
God hath given him ; and indeed he cannot do otherwise if
he will be sincere or act like a man. For instance, if I should
be commanded by an angel from heaven to believe it is
midnight at noonday, yet I could not believe him. So if
I were directly told in Scripture that T/tree arc One, and
one in three, I could not conceive or believe it in the na-
tural common sense of that expression.
" I see it plainly declared in Scripture that there is but
one God ; and yet I find our Saviour claiming the Dero-
gative of Gud in knowing men's thOughts; hi saying, He

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and his Father arc one. I read, that the Disciples wor-
shipped him ; that Thomas said to him, My Lord and my
God; and Saint John, chap. Ist., In the Beginning vas
the Word, and the Word was with Gcd, and the Word
was God. From these several texts, it is plain that God
commands us to bel;cve there is an union, and there is a
distinction; but what that union, or what that distinction
is, all mankind are equ•illy ignorant, and must continue
so, at least till the Day of Judgment, or•without some new
Revelation.

" Therefore, I shall again repeat the doctrine of the
Trinity, as it is positively affirmed in Scripture, That God
is there expressed in three different names, as Father, as
Son, and as Holy Ghost; that each of these is God, and
that there is but one God. But this Union and Distinction
are a mystery utterly unknown to mankind.
" For which reason I have endeavoured to put this Doc-
trine upon a certain and sure foot, levelled to the meanest
understanding ; by which we may, as the Apostle directs,
be ready always to give an answer to every man that ask-
eth us a reason of the Hope that is in us, with meekness
and fear."--Extracts.

Published in 1811, price ss.
The Ophion ; or, the Theology of the Serpent,
comprehending the Customs of the most Ancient People,
who were instructed to apply the sagacity of the Serpent
to the Fall of Man ; and the Unity of God. The latter
in answer to Unitarianism.

By John Bellamy.
" When the Latin was a living language, the word per-
sona was understood to mean the qualities of the mini, as
constituting a character, either good or bad; but it has so
far degenerated into tangible materiality, that, instead of
being used as anciently, to signify a character, office, or
personal qualities, it is applied to mean the material body
of man. That it was originally applied to signify personal
qualities, particular constitution of the mind, a character,
or office, is confirmed by the following authorities :
Sustineo unus tres personas, meam adversari judiees, Cic.
Persona tragica. Phaßdr. Eripitur persona, menet res.
Lucr. Magistratus, gerit personam civitatis, Plan 100.
Ad tuendam personam magistrates, de
.Or. 169. From
which it appears that the word persona, in ancient Latin-
ity, meant a character, and not literally a person, in which
sense it is now commonly understood."
John iii. 13.—" And no man bath ascended up to hea-
ven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son'of
Man, which is in heaven."—The übiquity of Christ.
Matt. xxviii. 18.—And Jesus came and spake unto them,
saying, All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.
—The Omnipotence of Christ.

Matt. ix. i.—And Jesus, knowing their thoughts said,
Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts.—The Omniscience
of Christ.

This Scriptural definition of the Divine Trinity in the
Supreme Being, will perfectly agree with that copy of the
genuine faith of the apostolic churches, which is called the
Atbanasian Creed. It becomes plain to the meanest ca-
pacity, that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity
in Unity ; neither confounding the persons, nor dividing
the substance. For there is one character of the Father,
another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. Bat
the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.
The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate, and the Holy
Spirit uncreate.
A Reply to the Rer. Mr, Todd's Vindication of our
Translation and Translators of the Bible. By Sir James
Bland Burgess, Bart. 1820.

" Of all the crafty inventions of the Devil to mislead and
seduce mankind, this perversion (Unitarianism) of the
Holy Scriptures is the most efficacious : it is rearing the
standard of falsehood against the revelation of Heaven ;
it is overthrowing the altars of the Most High, and wor-
si►ipping the molten calves of our own setting up; it is
poisoning the fount of truth, and converting its pure and
sacred streams into corruption and death."

" On the side of those who advocate' the necessity of
a New Translation rests the whole weight of facts and ar-
guments. Let not these be counteracted by less worthy
considerations; let us not leave to the enemies of Chris-
tianity the only weapons by which it can be assailed; but
let us cordially and sincerely unite with the learned and
pious prelate, Archbishop Newcombe, in the prayer with
which he concludes his preface, ' May the all-wise God,
in his fit time, dispose the Sovereign of the first Protes-
tant Churches, and of the most learned countries in the
world, to complete his true acts of piety, by promoting
equal attention to the English Bible I"—Extracts.
Milton expressed a hope of " leaving something so writ-
ten to after ages, that they should not let it die." " But
this," says he, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer
to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all utterance
and knowledge, and sends out the Seraphim with the hal-
lowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom
he pleases."
" We pray the Eternal Spirit that her Majesty consum-
mate the deed."

" Areopao•etica"—" New Translation of the Holy Bible"
—" Anti-Deist" —" Replies to the Quarterly Review"—
" True Age of Christ at the Crueifision"—" Classical
Journal"—" Reply to S. Lee, M. A."—'' The Critical
Examination"—" The Trinity." By Dr. Swift.
By Appointment :—Budd and Calkin, Booksellers to her
Majesty, Pall-Mall : also, by Longman, Rees, Orme, and
Brown, St. Paul's, London.
The Vicar of Wrexhill : by Mrs. Trollope.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majpsty.)
" Church Union"—" Scripture its own Interpreter"—
" Dialogues, Letters, &c."—" A Father's Reasons for
being a Christian."

John Booth, Duke-street, Portland-place; Upham,
Bath ; Bellersby, York ; Macredie and Co., Edinburgh ;
Cumming, Dublin.

*„,* The classic clegancies and flowers of Billingsgate
that had utterance at " The Great Meeting of Papists"
and the merits of the " New Translation"—" the bane and
antidote" have been fully set forth in the " Windsor and
Eton Express," Saturday, September the 21st, and Octo-
ber the 12;11.