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Claims of the Church to the Love of her Children ; a
Sermon, preached in St. James's Church, Latchford,
by the Rev. James Wright, incumbent. Warrington ;

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This temperate discourse will commend itself to all en-
lightened members of our national church, as affording a
clear but scriptural statement of the claims which that
church possesses on the sympathies and support of all
her faithful adherents. The words on which the sermon
is founded are, " My house is the house of prayer;" and
from these words Mr. Wright enlarges on the antiquity of
the church, her apostolical character, and her protest
against Rome; the character of her services, the conduct
which becomes her members, and on several objections
urged against her. As respects one feature in the cha-
racter of her services, we may make the following extract :
" Is there a time when the doors of the church are
thrown open for public worship, that the word of God is
not read to the people ? May not the poor and the un-
learned hear, in her services, what God has to say to them?
May not the word read tell with saving effect upon their
hearts ? And may we not hope of many such worshippers
who frequent her courts, that their faith standeth not in
the wisdom of men, but in the power of God ?' In the
Psalms, in the Lessons, in the Epistle and Gospel, those
who assemble in the house of God, hear him teaching in
his Holy Word. And ' for this honour done unto God in
his Word,' saith an eminent prelate of our church, `which
doubtless has brought down, and will continue to bring
down, a blessing upon her from Him who has declared,
"Them that honour me I will honour;" for this honour
to God's Word, and for the provision made thereby to
teach the people infallibly out of it the whole counsel of
God, independently of the defects, and errors, and re-
serves which are incident to the human teaching that they
receive, we ought, I am sure, to be thankful, if we had
nothing else in her public services to rejoice in or to be
thankful for.' "

In reply to an objection frequently raised against the
church, the following is worthy of observation :

t doctrines-similar to the worst doc-
been lately taught by some of the
clergy of the church. It is with unfeigned sorrow we ad-
mit the truth of this objection. Such doctrines have been
broached, and though but partially, still to the perversion
of a few enthusiastic spirits, to their wilful excision from

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the church, and to their union with Rome. Admitting
the full force of the objection, it is yet but just towards
the church, to ask, if it be fair or reasonable to judge the
church by the unsound and authoritatively-condemned
statements of a mere fractional part of her ministers ?

s They went out from us, but they were not of us.' Are
we not to judge of the church, by her Articles, her Ho-
milies, her Formularies ? And if these, with one consent,
condemn those dangerous opinions, then does the church
condemn them. We never take the opinions of a few
discontented and noisy individuals for the voice of the
nation, neither should we take the condemned opinions of

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and the ground of the truth.' "