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    tiay ^ ne oilier placeft ^ f ^ Of-each , mi these in Iheir orde r * I . I said that this institution was originally unnecessary : •*— The lucorporaled Society for the Propagation of the Gospel iu Foreign Parts has been in existence and

    in usefulness , hut , though a Church of England Society ^ little encouraged , more thaa a hundred years * It is probable that many of this auditory ? in all respects qualified to be members of that Society , never heard of its name . To them I take leave to recom *

    mend it , not as a new project , hut as an established and orderly system ? And eer * taiuSy the Zealand the liberality of members of the Church of England , would be more consistency employed in the support of thatc , than in the formation of any new Society . 2 . I said that I considered some of the

    Rules and Regulations of this Church Missionary Society , and especially the means which it employs to increase its funds , to be utterly unworthy the name which it would assume ; viz . that of a Church of England Society . For example—Is it worthy of the Church of England , is it worthy of the members of the Church o £

    JSugland , to authorize persons to go about collecting' pence and farthings from servants , sch . ooUboys and apprentices , in order that the collectors of one shilling per week , or Bvq shilling's per month , may be elevated iato members—of a Church of England

    Society ? And , moreover , be tempted to the additional honour of voting at meetings , of receiving qopies of the Annual Report aud Sermon ; and one number of the Missionary Register ? This is the statement in Rule VI . of your Report : but I proceed to other matter .

    3 , 1 said that this Society tends to the subversion of ecclesiastical order , and to promote and augment divisions among * the members ,-and-especially the Clergy of the Church of England . Can a stronger proof of this assertion be offered than i $ 9 at this moment , exhibited before your eyes ? Here you have the Bight Reverend the Lord

    -Bishop of Gloucester presiding in the chief city . of the diocese of Bath and Wells ^ over the formation of a Society , which the Lord Bishog * of Bath and Wells disclaims . Does : the honourable and Right Reverend Vice-Patron of Ibis Church of England

    Mission&iry Society know this fact ? If not , by wknt rule , not of apostolical authority , but < % f common propriety , does lie invade the fuwance of his venerable brother ? By whvt right does hae come hither , thrttstttogr his sickle info another man's harvest ?

    Perhaps he thought the husbandmen asleep ! 1 trust that be will tiud us waking- and watodifa § .- * -Bu , fc if his Lord 3 hip did know th ® sentiments of A «> venerable Diocesan aft well as © sine ( for the Dean of Wdtl * i » as ? mndk under cano&ix&ti iimlei as n » f other cl «^ yf | tflBn ) I r ask , if kfo luoftdsittp did know the sentiments of his venerable Bio-

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    Cessnas weijl-asraine conl 4 he giveamofe decisive proof of his i a difference to the dignity of the high office to which he hafc been but a few years consecrated ^ as well as of his contempt of ecclesiastical order ? - But this is a Church of England Society ! I Where ave the majority of the Established Clergy of this city and of the

    neighbourhood , that they attend not t $ support a meeting * , convened under that assumption 1 Did they not hear of it 1 Was U possible for them not to hear of it ? B !< l not the newspapers announce ^ not only the public meeting- of this society , hut that , to promote the views of this Institution m Sermon would be preached by the

    Hononfable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Gloucester ? at tlie Octagon Chapea ? ( I quote the very words of the Advertisement . ) I ask again , where are the majo * rity of the Established Ckrg-y of this cit ^ r and neighbourhood , that they attend not to support this Church of England Society 1 Perhaps it may be said that the archdeacon influenced their mind&o The archdeacon

    solemnly declares , that . he has not coin * municated ^ nor authorized any persoa to communicate * to any one of them hi& it& * fention to be here . . .-.-. ¦ But 1 have said that this Chiarch Missionary Society is plainly supported be conformity to the views of a new Sect In the Church i a Sect * of which the adherents

    disting-uish themselves by the names of Serious Christians , and Evangelical Ministers . I go further . That this society is in any respect calculated to promote the sober ? orderly , manly , Intelligent and intelHgihle piety of the Church of England I do utterly deny . I look at the names @ € the prime and principal promoters of this

    project ^ naoaes , I allow , of the highest respectability on many accounts ^ hut eer- » tainly of very Htt ) e weight in the balance of tbe Church of Englapd | since some of the parties , to whom those names belong have ia * vt seriipled to communicate with those , who renounce tier doctrines aiid di # ^ eipline .

    Bo not imagine tlisat I mean to speak with disrespect of CoufsciENTrous Di& * skntbrs . I quarrel with no man for bis religious creed . I love honesty ^ though "I may think it perverse . I venerate piety , though 1 may think it erroneous . Bill those respectable Dissenters do not halt .. between two opinions : they are Efot of the

    qhurch to-day , and of the 1 m ^ eliag ; -ho , ii 3 t $ ti > -MM > rrow ; and we kuew their mean »^ But do the tninislers af any Dissentmg coi& ~ maaity go about proclaiming ; Ih ^ insuSU deney , the worldly-miudedii « ss , and fclxa want of g * o $ pel ~ zeal in theii own bretnve » $

    Does any party of Mim&tevs * ip any cotftmufiiOD amoug them , sfcs * ume to itself all the piety a&A all the vi » Uies o $ the cqm ^ mon fuu ^ tiofft i or lo ^ k d ^ wu witb Kupc reilious horror on their less assuming hre-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 69, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/69/