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    images were then melted down by order of the Long Parliament , to assist their supplies in the war with Charles . This is related by Guthtie the historian { Hen . VIII . ad fin *) and pathetically lamented as an horrible sacrilege .

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    Essay on the Defects of the Reformation and of the Reform * ers . July < 24 > th t 1813 . — p ^ Setf 7 t < x , vypL < r §( A ) sv a , yQ pcv 7 ? oi $ .

    As , in behalf of what some men deem religious truth , appeals are often made to the Reformation and the Reformers from Popery , with

    scarcely less confidence than if they were mude to the original records of Christianity , I shall be justified in endeavouring to shew that this confidence is excessive .

    The Reformation was , no doubt , a great blessing to the world . By means of it the Scriptures were presented to the people in their native tongue : the mind was

    roused to inquiry and action ;* and some check was given to the interference of temporal power in affairs relating simpl y to God and conscience . It is further

    admitted that many of the principal instruments of the Reformation were men of vigorous faculties , of eminent piety and virtue and of

    distinguished learning , for the time * in' which they lived . We owe them considerable obligations ; their memories claim our grati . tude dnd veneration . Having thus stated my

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    ment of the Reformation and of the Reformers , I now propose to represent the defects of both ; not , 1 can assure my readers , with

    the invidious design of lessening the reputation of illustrious names or of detracting from the value of most important services , but onlj with the view of proving my consistency as a Protestant .

    Well known events had induced many of the inhabitants of Germany , of Switzerland and of our own country to shake off the papal yoke . Their separation from the see of Rome , was . at lease in its

    beginning , much more a matter of feeling than of reasoning : they groaned under burdens which they found themselves incapable of sustaining ; they were shocked at the gross immoralities of several

    of their spiritual rulers , attd something like a sense of injury , aided by other considerations , prevailed on them , to withdraw their allegiance frpm the power to which they had long and implicitly submitted .

    The Reformation and Protestant Nonconformity can only be vindicated on the principles which they have tended to unfold , establish and diffuse . But it would be extravagant to assert that either the Reformers or the first Nonw

    conformists were as thoroughly acquainted with the evidence , the nature and the extent of those principles as many of their successors * This were to affirm that

    knowledge and inquiry were as far advanced then as they are at present , or that our ancestors erected the superstructure , instead of merely laying the foundation . To be a Protestant , is not to believe or disbelieve particular tenets : it is not to practice or to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 505, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/17/