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    Jfiti&t ) one should think , extort something more than forgiveness from a generous adversary . I am , Sir , B ARTHOLOMEW NONCON . August 24 , 1811 .

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    On Lay Preachers . Sir , Sepi . 8 , 1811 . The " alliance between church and state / ' which has now subsisted for 1500 years , has produced two descriptions of eminent characters— Ecclesiastics , faring sump .

    tuously every day , on the emoluments of a clerical profession and statesmen , whose policy has been interwoven with the magnificence of the church . These too often agree to assail with ridicule , if

    not with a deadlier weapon ^ the Christian who leaves his au > l as it has been ludicrously expressed , to preach the gospel * and returns to his awl to gain a livelihood , or , according to apostolic precept , to provide for them of his own

    household . Yet the world is , surely , wde enough for these very differentl y accommodated travellers to pass along , without jostling , to that u bourn from which no traveller returns' '

    A well . disciplined mind , one who , like Wakeiield , has been " musing with the men of Galike / ' cannot escape very painful feelings , when he observes those

    who ride upon the high places of f earth , affecting to despise the labourers below . These feelings will be peculiarl y excited , should ° M a line calculated to gratify ^ at evil propensity escape a pen from which , by experience , much etter things may be expected * I c ° ftgratu ) ate you , Mr . Editor , on your freedom from this imputa . non in the " Reflections on

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    Lord Sidmouth ' s Bill , ' * ( p . 495 — 501 . ) you have done justice to Christian teachers Of mother-wif , and learn'd without the schools , and even it a sincere Christian

    extravagant came in your way , you have been , as we all ought to be , to his faults a little blind , But to his virtues very kind . Yet , as I dare say you wish your record of the late important transactions to be verbally exact ,

    give me Jeave to point out an inaccuracy into which you appear to have fallen . tfc The noble legislator , " ( p . 497 ) if fairly reported ^ did nut mention tinkeis , perhaps , from reverence for genius in the person of that evnvfamous mechanic of Bedford * The Goths

    and Vandah pouring in upon the empire of the church , appeared to his Lordship ' s' imagination in the forms of pig-drovers , chimney - sweepers ana taylors * Here I cannnot help remarking , how ill the last-mentioned ingenious and useful class of citizens have been treated , and indeed with peculiar ingratitude , by

    churchmen . Lord Clarendon , ( i . 348 ) speaking of Williams , that versatile state-church man , says that '' it being his turn , as D < an of Westminster to preach be ton the king , he took occasion to speak of the factions in religion , and mentioning the Presbyterian discipline , he said , it was a government only Jit for toy tors and shoemakers and the like , not for

    nohlemen and gentlemen . " * And in later limes , when a dignitary , who had composed himself 4 c to take a nap in the stall of a Cathedral , " as Blackburne expresses it , has been suddenly aroused by the stentorian strains of some zealous

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    On Lay Preachers . 52 $

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 529, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/17/