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    the divine perfections which characterizes the former . The evil , however , I trust , is but temporary , and that infidelity itself , under the direction of a wise and beneficent Providence , wril be made eventually productive of good , like storms and tempestsin the natural world , infidelity will contribute to

    overturn superstition , priestcraft , or dominion over conscience , and every species of corrupt doctrine , and thus clear the way for the prevalence of Christianity in its native purity and simplicity .

    That this will be really the case , when the causes now in operation produce their decided effects , may , I think , be relied on with unshaken confidence . The prosjpect now presented to the friend of religious inquiry and pure Christianity , is pleasing and animating-.

    A new sera appears to be about to commence , favourable to the knowledge , virtue and happiness of mankind . A spirit of investigation is gone forth , which , like Ithuriel ' s spear , will detect and expose what is false and erroneous . The prevalence of

    schools on the improved modes of education , will teach the young aijd rising generation both to read and think , and the British and Foreign Bible Society will furnish them with the Scriptures to peruse in their respective languages . Though the versions

    circulated are not as p ' erfect as they might and ought to be , the obstruction to truth arising from hence , will be , in my opinion , of trifling injury , in comparison with the good which will be done by the universal spread of the records of divine revelation ,

    even in tfeeir present state . * Let men be taught to form their religious systems , from the sense rather than the sound of words and phrases , from the general strain of the sacred writers , instead of from single and detached passages , and from explaining the more difficult , by those which are

    * Uppji £ his principle , I conscientiously and heartily co-operate with the friends and supporters of the British a ^ nd Foreign Bible Society . I consider tli 19 in ^ titvttion * not only as forming * a new bond of union among Christians of different denominatio n ^ but as likely also , in due time , to connect , in friendly intercourse , tfare uxont dt f tfwt tftftttaut of the habitifele gloVt .

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    clear and obvious , and we need be under no apprehension respecting the ^ final prevalence of pure * rational Christianity . In the mean time , it is the Huty of its friends and advocates to contribute vvhat they are able , b , y their exertions in tlieir several spheres ,

    to promote the cause , in their view , of God , truth , righteousness and human happiness , and more especially to recommend it to others , by the attractions of Christian dispositions , of pious and ben ^ vol ^ nt examples , of sober , hojy arid uublameable liv £$ . T \ HOWE .

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    550 On Mr . Lindseifs Censure of'Mr . Lowthion ,

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    Macclesfield 9 Sir , August \ Q 9 1818 . IT was with no small degree of surprise , and even pain , that a letter was noticed in the Repository , for the last month , [ p .. 4 %% 1 purporting 1 to

    be frwn thje late venerable Mr . Lindsey to Dr . Hajris , containing some reflections upon a bighly respectable character , arid distinguished minister p / the Dissenting church , the late Mr . Lowthion , ( for so he always wrote his name , not . LoihianJ ) of Newcastle ;

    which , the writer of this is persuaded , were not the deliberate sentiments of the reputed amiable and respectable author , but only the feeling of the moment , occasioned , probably , by misinformation , the communication of

    which to the public is , therefore , rnucli to be regretted . It is insinuated , that Mr . Lowthion was friendly to Popery , that he " aped * the obsplete rites pf the Established Church , that he was desirous of " introducing an organ " into the place of worship of which he was the minister , and to use " a stated

    form of prayer / ' That some , pf these charges were utterly unfounded , ^ he writer of this can positively affirm , from his oven personal knowledge , and others , such ( he i ^ inclined to think ) as will reflect no dishonour

    upon the late Mr . Lowthion , in the opinion of every candid and liberalminded person , but the contrary . He as heartily disapproved of the doctrines and principlesof Popery , as any man could do , consistently with the sacred rights of conscience and

    universal toleration , of which he was always the firm and declared advocate 5 at a time , too . when it Was much more the fashion to entertain a jet ^ Qttry of the designs of Popery , than

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/14/