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    the derision of her ^ nemies , lie could not have done it more effectually than by such ; a form * We implore oar bishops to ' exercise a more vigilant

    supreintendence over this department of ecclesiastical regulation , and to withhold the sanction of their venerable names from such crude compositions as these , which have no other effect

    than to degrade our excellent Establishment in the eyes of the country and of the world . I have heard ) it said , that there is scarcely a Dissenting or Methodist preacher in the kingdom , who would not have produced extemporaneously a more suitable prayer for the occasion than that which is

    tauntingly but doubtless most unfairly represented as embodying the united wisdom and piety 4 of the Church of England .

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    establishments , c $ &fin ^ -,. l& * i ^ . ^ wards and \ punishment ^ J& ^ &gbpijl $ toyw *> lffl&iegiiffi ^ 9 ^ kept afooting in seveiajj . ^^ jte ^ ili ^^^ s , . fiiid even the se § t § j ^ J ^ times g ^ aii ^^ ro ^ ^ starffljftAfo- hitherto inseparable from such .

    institutions , have not co ^ taiitly , resis t ^ upon a broad and general , grpuud , the interference of the magistrate . either as the patron of the rights or , as the of

    avenger the wrongs of religion ... Jt may seem to require apology , that a subject upon which so many ; able and eloquent pens have been employed , should be ; re-introduc ^ d tp : tliq attention of Nonconformists , ; wliose

    mjquamtance with the subject cannot be slight ; but some arguments in favour of National Establishments for the {) ropagation of Christianity haying been ately stated from aquarter where early prepossessions and published opinions were ranged in favour of the opposite side of the question , naturally attract

    attention and respect , and J have thought it not inexpedient to ^ throw together a few cursory remarks upon some of the positions alluded to , without affecting to enter upon any systematic examination of the whole of the arguments advanced in the Sermons to which I refer .

    The Christian religion , teaching the doctrine of a future life , and inculcating love to God and good-will to men , is directly calculated to promote the peace and prosperity of the community , and therefore deserves all the countenance and assistance which it is

    in the power of the community to afford . Such is the proposition upon which is rested the expediency of employing , the public purse for erecting churches , educating teachers of Christianity , and contributing to their support ; assuming , of course * as it appears to me , that the community cannot dispense any of its beneficial influences , except in its coKpomte

    capacity , and through the medium of the delegated conservators of . the public peace , and 'that all the evils which fef $ * hitherto attehded civil establiahnients of rellgiau are purelv # to $ ifei £ ; ¦ % * their nature , and at the ^^ MBgpSf counterbalanced hyj the Mpiu ^ jM ^ which have exclusively . t ^ mM jfrdm

    With r ^ gar 4 jto l ^ smm ^ mil and model of au es ^ bU ^ hment wUi ^ h ,

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    The Nonconformist * No . XVII . On the Patronage of Religion by the Civil Power . ri ^ HE pretensions of papal authority , JL however flagrantly in opposition to reason and Scripture , have at least an air of consistency and plausibility , to which the interference of the civil

    magistrate in the business of religion is not entitled . In claiming the possession of the keys of heaven by inheritance from the Prince of the Apostles , the successive Bishops of Rome assumed to preside over a " kingdom not of this world . " however much the

    character of their government might savour " of the earth—^ earthy . " These vicegerents of Christ claimed a concurrent dominion with mere temporal mouarchs , and thus in name at least , Cmar was prevented from usurping the Throne of the Saviour . It is at

    the first view strange and unaccountable , that tfce effects of the Reformation , founded upon the inalienable right of jpriv ^ judgment a& | o matters of , faith , should . jp my J #$ t « tijce , tove appeared to terminate in the

    Jester pf spiritual usurpation fram me Pope , and his conclave of nominal ^ cteia ^ tip ^ to 9 k Kw % > Q 3 P a ^ rji » - jnent ^ whp , In , their nursing car ^ of the ^ aiireh of Gferist , h 0 $ tBeen almost equall y efficient in c ^ mp ipg it ? ^ tive e 8 S » by ^ t ^^ YBwmOSm ?* ^ fctef , or 4 ii > ances and statutes . ^ Wv various shows pf absolute right ° ^ # vutility 54 ua es ^ pedieiim *^ cli !^ ive

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    The Nonconformist . Na . XH ^ II . 2 ^ 3

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/31/