The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-28 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

HERESY-(ANSWER.)

MR. EDITOR—I have read, with considerable
surprise, a letter in your paper‘of last night on
the subject of " HERESY."- The Ivriter does not
condescend to explain what he Means by that
very general dud much misapplied term " Heresy,"
but I discOVer, from the general tenor of his
/observations, that he is aiming a lash at the Cal-
vinistic and Evangelical Clergy,—men who, he
says, will not receive our articles in that sense in
which the Bishop pleases to impose them.. Mr.
Editor, this observation shews (as do several
others) that the writer is very bigotted, and I
have, therefore,little hope of convincing him by
any argument within my humble reach ; but I
trust to your candour to insert these remarks, in
order, if not to counteract the effects of the letter
in question, yet to cast a proper suspicion upon
it, to prevent any of your readers, from being
thereby misled. The Articles of our Church I
had always supposed were to be received and
understood according to their literal and gram-
matical meaning, and I was not till now aware
that any Bishop had authority to impose his own
interpretation of them. At the Reformation Cal-
vinism was the fashionable doctrine in England,
and our Articles 'were framed principally by
Calvinists, but, at the same time, in such general
terms as to allow an Arminian to subscribe them,
ex animo ; it is, therefore, rather
.too much for
an Arminian now to tell a Calvinist that he ought
not to be allowed to subscribe the Articles be-
cause they cannot be so Perverted as to bear his
interpretation of them. The original object of
our Church_ was to receive within its pale all who
conform to its discipline and receive its essential
doctrines, plainly expressed, not interfering with
their opinions upon any controvertible point.—
Your Correspondent, on the other hand, would
send all to a conventicle who will not receive the
Articles according to the Bishop's interpretation :
an impartial man may therefore see who causes
schism ; the new lights (as your Correspondent
calls those against whom he writes) do not secede,
but your Correspondent would drive them away
from the Church. Tempora Mutintur ! This is
very unlike what was formerly, and what ought,
to be. In ancient days the Church would drive
none away who did not impugn a plain doctrine.
or commit gross,immorality.
There are two classes of men who lie under your
Correspondent's indignation—the Calvinistic
Clergy and the Evangelical Clergy :—they are
not the same, though frequently confounded to-
gether ; many an Evangelical Clergyman is as far
Calvinism as Bishop Marsh .himself.
The Calvinistic Clergy (I mean' not to include
n this term Antinornians and wild visionaries,

with whom your Correspondent may deal as he
pleases,) agree with their Arminian brethren in
every point which our Church has expressed
plainly, and enforced as essential to salvation.;
/ do not, therefore, think it fair to brand them
as heretics, because, as to some points, which
our Articles either leave in obscurity or do not
refer to, they entertain different views from-
others. The Evangelical Clergy generally, whe-
ther Calvinistic or Arminian, agree with their
brethren of their respective classes as to matters
of doctrine, and are only .to be distinguished by
a more assiduous discharge of their official duties,
and by a more earnest endeavour' to pass through
the world unspotted by it. I do not, therefore,
think they deserve to be called heretics by any
Church, grounded on that Bible which directs
us not to be conformed to this world, and which
reprobates those who are lovers of pleasures more
than lovers of God.
Your Correspondent speaks of a collection
among the congregations of Evangelical Clergy-
men : I have resided in many different places
and never knew of such a circumstance ; I can-
not deny the fact, though I think I should have
heard of it if true. However, if there be such a
collection, before I can say that the object of it
is bad, I must be convinced that the principles of
the Evangelical Clergy are bad. I need not say
that at present I think very differetatly, and
wish they were imitated by many of their
opponents.
I will not trouble yott.with any further obser-

vations, except, by the way, to remind your Cor-
respondent that when the Apostles speak of" the
Church," they mean the Church of Christ gene-
rally, and not the Church of England or any
other Church in particular, for which reason his
quotations from their Epistles are not well ap-
plied. I can scarcely Suppose that he thinks the
Church of England to be the only true Church ;
if such be his opinion, with all my respect for
and attachment to our Established Church, I
cannot be sufficiently bigotted and illiberal to
join in such a sentiment.
Thursday, June 20, 1822.

F. D

A TRUE SOLDIER.—On Tuesday the 18th
inst. died, at his mother's house, in. the parish of Much Birch,
H erefordshire,W pt. Ann's, belonging to the 3d Battalion of Gre-
nadier Guards, nowin Dublin. This brave fellow bore his share
in the glorious battle of 'Waterloo, where he_was
In consequence of ill health, a short time since he obtained
leave to .visit his friends.sith the hope that his.native air would
prove beneficial to his shattered frame, but a rapid -decline left
recovery_ hopeless, and he contemplated the approach of-death
with the.firmness of a man, and the resignation of a.- Christian.
On the 18th (the anniversary of the battle of 'Waterloo) he re-
quested his mother to decorate his room with laurel, and
place his -medal oir his breast. Ha also, in the course. of
that day; received the sacrament, and, after surveying
the reward of his bravery with evident exultation .and pleasure,
desired it to be laid on his coffin when he should be buried,
thanked his mother for all her attentions to him, and in the
evening resigned his gallant spirit for a better world, observing
with a smile of satisfaction, Just before he expired, " that it
was a day on whiea a soldier ought to be proud tadie."
CORONER'S INQUEST.—TIRE RIOT IN WtST-
MlNSTEß.—Yesterday afternoon an Inquisition
was taken, at the Black Bull, in Little Chapel-
steet, Broadway, Westminster, before THOMAS
HIGGS, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Ralph
Hart, an unfortunate man who was shot during
the late disturbance which took place in Great
Peter-street, Westminster, on the 27th May last,
it beina at that time, the Tothill-fields fair
,
(Whitsun Monday.) The particulars have been
published, and the evidence adduced yesterday
added nothing material to what has been already
stated. It was not proved that any particular
. • .
individual fired the pistol by which the deceaSed
was shot.—The Jury,vvithout any hesitation, re-
- t.irtied a verdict of—" Justifiable liotuicide."