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    erroneous and contradictory sentiments which it too often contained , derived cbnsiderable pleasure from its perusal . When , therefore , I read your prospectus for a new and improved series of that work , I waited with some impatience for the appearance of your first number , which certainly , as I think / does great

    credit to yourself and connexions , and fully justifies your pre tensions . I had not however , well knowing my own incaparcity for writing , the least intention of troubling you or your readers with any thing of jpine ; but the very confident manner &nd air of superiority with which your correspondent Gogmagog treats those who are perhaps more evangelical in their sentiments than himself , determined me to take some notice of his

    reasoning , and by sending these brief remarks for insertion in your Repository , to prove how far your professions of candour and impartiality may be relied on . You will perceive by the plainness of ray stile , and the bluntness of uiy manner , that my claim of being a Protestant of the old school is at least as well-founded as that of your

    correspondent . The rxame Protestant ^ as every one knows , was derived from those illustrious worthies who boldly protested against thq corruptions of the Church of Rome , at the memorable aera of the Reformation ; for which reasop those certainly who holcj the doctrines of the Reformers , and who the most firmly adhere to their principles , must have the best title to being , cc Oldfashioned Protestants " whilst those who use everv exertion to

    subvert the peculiar doctrines and discipline of the Reformatiorii would surely speak more properly were they to stile themselves New-fashioned Protestants . But your correspondent Gogmagog contends , forsooth , that the grand principles qn which they acted were the rights of conscience , &jnd of private judgment , as if any orthodox Christian denied these principles , and did not

    act upon them , or admit them , when properly understood and explained . Ts it necessary , Mr . Editor , for a man to reject doctrines which have been believed by the wisest and best of znen , and which have received the sanction of ages , and must he subvert the order and government of the Christian church .

    and overturn the most salutary regulations before he can enjoy the right of private judginent ? If is not a little curious to hear how the advocates of what they call rational Christianity , as they oddly stile their refined theories ^ hackney these cant phrases , when every one must know that they can be used just as well by one party as another * But to come more immediately to the point , we m $ y b $ allowed to ask , is not the will of God clearly revealed in the Bible , and is not the Bible the religion of Protestants ? Has any mail ' s judgment or conscience therefore aright to question .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/22/