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      Should any correspondent answer my inquiry , be will oblige me by informing your readers also , when and by what law the two Churches were united in their articles and discipline . Is there any Irish Convocation ? Has there been any since the Reformation ? And when was its authority , if it ever had any , taken away ?

      In looking into books , and in seeking from persons well-informed on ecclesiastical subjects , for replies to these questions , I have been surprised , as I have often been on other occasions , with discovering how little is known , or can ordinaril y be learned in this country , of the literature and religious history of Ireland . Have you not , Sir , some correspondents in the sister isle who could instruct us in these matters , a knowledge of which is wanted to make the Union between the two countries real and beneficial , a union not merely of island with island , but of people with people . CLERICUS ANGLICUS .

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      To the Editor . Sir , As a New Series of the Monthly Repository is commencing , allow me to suggest a subject , which I cannot help considering to be very important , and one which the time may be come for discussing with effect and impartiality . Whether it be not too extended a subject for your pages , may

      perhaps , be a question ; but if it be , I for one shall be still better pleased to see a more permanent and detailed consideration of it in the form of a distinct work . I allude to the main basis of the controversy between Dr . Priestley and his different opponents on the state of Early Christian Opinion and the Testimony of the Fathers on the Person of Christ . In doing this , all the by-play , all the collateral topics , into which controversialists , m the heat of the war , run with various success , and still more , all the personalities ,

      will be got rid of ; the desirable object being to learn from some one , who himself knows the ground and can judge of it independently of the views and representations of the disputants , what can be considered as ascertained ground on either side ; where the real weight lies , setting aside the inaccuracies or sanguine views of either party ; and , in short , what effect on the main points which this inquiry was considered b y either side as subserving , may in the result be fairly and dispassionately said to have been made .

      If is evident that such a review would require an author of candour , judgment and learning . He must , at all events , not be the partizan of any of the disputants on the last occasion , whatever opinion he may entertain of their conclusions . He should enter upon it , and balance the evidence , with that sort of impartiality which some of the German theologians bring to the consideration of these questions . By the bye , who are there of the latter who have shewn great proficiency in the works of the Fathers ?

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      CONTROVERSY ON THE EARLY OPINION ON THE PERSON OF CHRIST .

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      Controversy on Early Christian Opinion . 101

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/21/