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    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.

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    religious toleration in france . orthodox churchman ' s magazine . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    SIR , Though perhaps only known to you as the author of a tract * containing some harsh strictures upon Dissenters in general , which was written several years ago , under a stron g prejudice ^ , that the church of England alone , being orthodox , all others of course were heterodox ; still I trust your wonted candour , overlooking the past , will receive this present as an earnest of better things to come . I have now been an attentive reader of your work ( the

    Monthly Repository , being desi g ned I apprehend as an improved series of the Universal Theological Magazine ) for some months past ; I have found it the only channel that T know of unfettered by the narrow consideration of modes of faith , political creeds ^ and unscriptural articles . In this clear and calm region the well-informed mind , which cannot away with the monstrous

    dogmas of persons , hypostases , co-eternals , co-equals , and the like , seems to breathe freely in its native air . What many great men who have gone before us have only indulged in thought , you freely express—those truths which have formerly started from their trammels in various directions , uncjei fear and apprehension , you collect and concenter in one luminous point with dignity and composure . Here , as the hand is . not compelled to subscribe to that at which the heart must shudder ,

    nor the lip to commend what the conscience must condemn ; Jio one is any longer exposed to the temptation , no one feels any occasion for the vizor of hypocrisy , to conceal his better

    knowledge ; here it is no crime to be wiser than one's teachers . In fact , the difference between the New Testament Christian and the Sectarist is this , the one appears to be taught by ixien , th § other taught by God . In proportion , Sir , as we * The Rise and Dissolution of the Infidel Societies in this Metropolis . By Wij jU ^ a Ha pultoft Reid , * 8 oa

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    which King William and the Revolution introduced . He left behind him a most amiable and respectable name , and was doubtless one of the most pious and excellent men of that or of any other age . His son , Matthew Henry , much resembled him , and is perhaps still more extensively known than his father , owing to the very popular character of bis Exposition of the Bible . [ Tole continued A

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    Religious Toleralio ? i in France . 67

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/11/