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    of your valuable Magazine , to the interests of the Ytfrk Academy ; for I am persuaded that pothing can be more important to the promotion of religion and * virtue than the support of an establishment so faithfully and ably conducted , and which has for its leading object the instruction of our youth in those rational principles of genuine Christianity , which can alone form a barrier ^ in this enlightened philosophic age , against the inroads of scepticism and infidelity . As an old man , Miv'Editor , may 1 be allowed the privilege -of descanting a little more at large upon this subject ?

    The Christian world , divided and subdivided as it has long been * into innumerable sects and parties , may yet , like the medical , be separated into two grand divisions—the emperics , and the regular practitioners . Under the former , I class all those * from whatever high antiquity they may date their origin ^ who attach the hope of salvation to the peculiar opinion or system of opinions which they themselves may happen to hold ; and this , whether connected or unconnected with a holy life ; and I think , Mr . Editoty you will agree with me , that the term is not inappropriate . These , as might be expected , are much more numerous , and attract to their standard' a far greater crowd of adherents than their opponents ; a phenomenon , for which a great variety of causes might be assigned , but I shall content myself with merely mentioning the

    following . The emperic teachers not only save their disciples the painful labour of thinking for themselves , but being without exception , professors of the knowall philosophy as opposed to that of the seai-chers , affect a high tone of authority , assuming , that their system alone is efficient to conduct the way-faring pilgrim to the promised lapd . Thus you will observe the headers of that immense multitude < c whom no man can number , ' * arranged beneath the dome of a majestic cathedral , ( the boast and admiration of

    successive ages , ) administering their nostrums enveloped in the mystery of contradictory articles , absurd confessions and dark metaphysical creeds ., the which if a man do not firmly believe , he shall without doubt perish everlastingly . ' You will sec also that other daily-increasing party dispensing a Shibboleth of their own with no less confidence ; equally incapable of being understood , but necessary nevertheless to be firmly believed , and which re its the proof of . its

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/24/