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    power * now are there not conceivable circumstances in which this power wight be used , ( I do not mean to insinuate that it has

    ever yet been used ) to deaden the feeling of political independence in the ; minds of dissenting ministers , who give the tone very much to the feelings o £ their hearers ?

    $ th , Would it not be a spirited act ol consistency in the Protestant dissenters throughout the kingdom 5 to . raise by subscription a sum that should afford an income

    e (| ual to the . Regzum Donum ^ to be placed in the bands of a committee , chosen by the ministers of the different denominations , for the use of their poorer clergy ? Would not the respectable applicants for

    relief apply in this case , with less dependence of mind ? a less galling sense of degradation ? Would not the government be forced to respect a people ? who could forego pecuniary

    advantages which brought even faint suspicion upon their principles ; and would not this respect be more likely to hasten the repeal of the Corporation . and Test Acts , than that conviction of having a

    reasonable claim upon the attachment of the dissenters , which every prime minister mu $ t entertain , after having proposed in parliament , obtained and dispensed , for years , the Regium Donurn ? And would

    not this sacrifice to conscience , on toe part of the dissenters , bet the * rue dissenting principle in a p rodent and pleasing light , and ** ve as a public protest against ^ e magistrate ' s interference in batters of faith ?

    Wh , Might not the measure , Prosed in the last query , prove e Cleans of cementing a prover-

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    biajly scattered body , and of uniting theni in the best of . ail bomis , that of religious principle ? Would not the clergy secure the admiration of the laity , by renouncing the gains of passible political quietness ? and would not the laity win the lasting gratitude of the clergy , by stepping forward to prevent poverty from treading upon the heels of conscience ? I put these inquiries , sir , not as so many propositions , but in order to invite answers . If they be taken as they are meant , they will excite no unpleasant feelings in any of your readers . They are prompted by sincere regard to the best interests of those whom I

    consider as the best Christians , the Protestant dissenters . I am no reviler , tho I confess , — Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes : nor am I an nlarnnst ; though , I acknowledge ^ I would arouse my fellow worshippers to an inquiry , whether it be either morally right or politically expedient , to sit at

    meat in the idol ' s temple ? to out at the charges of a power , which never gives a boon without expecting to be repaid by a principle ? A PLEBEIAN .

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    On the Phrase , " New Testament . '' 273

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    On the Phrase ^ cc A ' czv Testament ?' Sir , April 30 , 1811 . In my former letter , ( p , 92 . ) I made some remarks upon the title

    46 Saint , ' given to tnc Evangelists ; I shall now , with your leave , comment with equal irceuom on the name 2 e $ lameHt as applied to the Christian books .

    The title Kccivkj Aipc& ^ Ky ) rendered The New Testament , seems not to have been applied lo the sacred writings by a divine command : the precise time oi ' iu in .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/17/