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    The Reformation a Precedent of Reform * ( Tbc Cqiijclijsfofl of a Discourse to a ^ pun ^ Cppgreg ^ tion , E ( ov 4 ^ 1804 . ] If it be thought thai ; I hive oysrefcanjed , th ^? picture , and-

    colored , tppjiighly the blessings of tfee lyotegl ^ nt faith , aUpw me to Q b ^ erv * , tj ^ att all my encomiums gf& rel&tive , to the last view in whj (? b I ; proposed to consider it , 4 iajb of a . precedent of reforroatioju which , sanctions all

    subsequent lmproveraents ^ aw justifies and instructs men in . reforming ey $ p . itself should such a reform

    l& . netful . Wjise and venerable as were the i ^ fonp ^^ there is no indecorum ^ Pr ?§ Vlinptipn in supposi ng that they purified religion but partially ftyttk the abuses of . popery : tQ say th

    th ^ tt ey cpmmitted no errors or l ^ ft ncM * e . unam ^ ndedj would be tpjny ^ stt h ^ nx with infallibility , fofctiij to claim for them , what %# thought it monstrous in the

    ambers ; of the papal , church to Q laiG ^ though certainly with beU kltempm , for their head , and to tenew in . their own persons ,, the J PQpiety and idolatry whickshock-€ d > tfeena sq . much in tbe church ° f R v onc \^^ ^^ 4 occasioned their

    ^ Pamtioa fTOW ] i it . I wish you to Uu 4 « i ; stand clearly , my bre ^ ^^ n , th ^ t you have exactly the * Vfte authority for scrutiny ^ ing ^ d f sifting the opinions of your

    mtesfayit ancestors , that they ^ tfor investigating those of their J ^ shaac ^ stors ,, and are as much "pund ., to , forsake tbeir commu . ni % wherein you think them er-

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    rou ^ ou ^ as t were to forsakd , in similar circumstances , the commutiion of their fathers . Every plea which they set up for justifying their separation from the then established faith of their

    country * operates equally to justi - fy you in , separating from the faith that is now established ; nor can we consistently vindicate Protestants without vindicating al , so Protestant Dissenters . Both have

    acted on the same broad and sure principle—the right of private judgment and the supreme au * thority of the Scriptures ; we must therefore condemn or acquit both * And by a parity of reasoning , ; any

    individual among Protestant Dis * senters has an indisputable ; right to quit one sect among them . for another . ; , or , if he please , to be * come the founder of a new sect ; or , to disengage himself fronni

    sects and parties altogether . There is no medium between taking ( his liberal course of argum ^ jit epd holding the sin of separation from the Church of Rome ! or to go higher tip , the sin of

    Christianity ! for Christianity was , at the first s a dissent from Paganism and Judaism ami our blessed Lord the Apostles and all the prinoilivq Christians > vere , in / strictnQ ^ of speech , Nanconformists .

    It is with an ill igrace that Protestants , who are the disciples of reformers , and owe their very ex * istence to reformation , profess £ p , be enemies of religious reform > : this is the same species of folly .

    as that we so universally despise ^ of men who have personally acquired wealth , affecting afterward to look down upon the means by which they acquired it with contempt . Wisdom is justified of her children , and her children are justified by the affinity which they

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/35/