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    We have seen a Sermon , just published ( by Longman and Co ., London , and Ghatnley , Newcastle ) * entitled 6 The Church of England and its Temporalities / preached in the parish church of

    Alnwick , Northumberland , June 6 , 1832 , before the Anniversary Meeting of the ' Sons of the Clergy ' north of the Coquet , by John Sandford , A . M ., vicar of Chillingham , and published at the request of the clergy present , —some extracts from which , we conceive , will greatly interest our readers .

    The advertisement prefixed is short and pithy . —* The author offers no apology for the sentiments which he has felt it his duty to avow : —he only rejoices in the opportunity of recording his devoted attachment to the Church of England , and his uncompromising hostility to all that may tend to impede its usefulness

    or impair its lustre . He is convinced that the day and hour of its crisis are at hand—that , to save it , it must be reformed—and that its only human hope lies in the concurrent exertions of its clergy i to stimulate and aid their superiors in the work of amendment /

    In his discourse from 1 Cor . ix . 12 , after Showing , from the authority of Christ and his Apostle , that ' the labourer is worthy of his hire , ' he argues , on the common topics of expediency—that a well-endowed church secures a learned and independent ministry ; that a resident parochial clergy are a useful link between the higher and lower classes , &c 9 and that therefore an established religion is necessary . — ' How , then , it may be asked , does it

    happen , that the temporal prospects of the church are daily assuming a gloomier and more threatening character ; that from every side there are resounding attacks upon the priesthood , and that her enemies are already triumphing in the anticipation of her fall ? To furnish a plausible answer to this question is not difficult , and it will probably be given according as it is the wish to stifle the enquiry , or to meet it in the spirit of Christian honesty

    and candour . It may be said , for instance , that the present clamour against the church is only part of a revolutionary crusade against all existing institutions , resulting from a feverish wish of change , or a fiendish hostility against whatever has hitherto been had in honour ; or , it may be said , that it is the fruit of an unnatural conspiracy of infidels , papists , and dissenters , against a ,

    church of which they envy the ascendency , and covet the temporalities ; and it may be alleged , as a proof of the infatuation of the last , that they should join in the assault upon an establishment , to which their own system owes its solidity , if not its existence , and in the ruin of which it will certainly be involved , JJut , granting that there is truth in both these statements , and that it i » not difficult to show the injustice ? w < i folly of any sweep *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 565, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/61/