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    would please to suffer a confirmation of the Irish articles to pass b y way of a bill in parliament . Tlie proposal , however , was so little agreeable to his principles of government , that , if credit is given to a charge brought against him , when become Lord Stratford , by the Scotch commissioners , he threatened Usher and the rest to have the articles burnt by the common hangman , if they did not desist from their purpose . The subsequent confusions suspended ordinations in the Irish Church ; and after the Restoration , the En * glish articles alone were subscribed , as they have been ever since . "—P . 247 *

    It might be a curious speculation , what would have been the state of religion in Ireland at the present day , had the bigotry of Laud and the despotism of Strafford permitted her to retain a national Protestant Church allied in doctrine to that of Scotland , and not unlikely to have attracted into its bosom the Presbyterians of the North . The clergy of the Establishment would in that case have shared with the Catholic priesthood the advantage of being natives , and they would have found little temptation to become absentees ; their influence on all classes would consequently have been greater and

    more salutary . The opportunity of providing for their sons in a church so opulently endowed , would powerfully have encouraged conversion in families of the higher ranks ; and the lower orders would imperceptibly have become proselytes to a clergy by whom their wants were relieved and their prejudices conciliated . In short , had the . Church of Ireland been suffered to preserve its separate and independent existence , it seems not irrational to believe that , long before the present period , it might have become the Church of Irishmen . A .

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    To the Editor . Sir , Your correspondent " Clericus Anglictts" seeks for information as to ecclesiastical history in Ireland . Allow me to propose to your correspondents , as an interesting topic of illustration , the early history of Christianity in Scotland , with reference to the old church of the Culdees , their literary establishments at Iona , and the peculiarities of their church government . I

    am aware that this is a point of ecclesiastical history on which there has been some warmth of discussion ; but I apprehend your readers will not have so much of either genuine Scotch or Presbyterian blood in them as to quarrel very stoutly on the question , whether the standard of Episcopacy or Presbyterianism was more or less approached by this venerable establishment * Lloyd , the Bishop of St . Asaph , in his " Historical Account of Church Government , as it was in Great Britain and Ireland , when they first received the Christian Religion , ' * ( as I find from quotations of his works in other

    authors , ) boasts " of having completely prostrated the adversaries of his order , and demonstrated Episcopacy to be coeval with Christianity , " and has , accordingly , taken great pains to dis-presbyterize these original promoters and teachers of the Christian faith . Dr . Jamieson is equally zealous to clothe them again with the character of which the Bishop is so jealous . But not much troubling myself , as I presume you will not do , to settle what name the overseers of this primitive foundation gave themselves , or the precise mode of exercising their authority , I think a concise account of these followers of a simple and unadulterated faith , who voluntarily selected , in a barbarous land a most unenviable position , in a worldly point of view ,

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    184 The Culdees of iona .

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    THE CULDEES OF IONA .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/24/