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    ousness ; commending what he heard , saying " , that whoever could live according to that doctrine would be happy . A Friend , after this , presenting him with Robert Barclay ' s Catechism and Apology in High Dutch , he said he would have them translated and pr inted in his own language . "

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    Sir , IF I have , as your correspondent John Buncle asserts , ( XVI . 713 , ) been guilty of -an cc uncharitable imputation of want of charity , " in the case of Dr . Marsh and Co ., I am sincerely sorry for it : and gladly should I acknowledge my error could I find , on an attentive re-consideration of the

    subject , any reasons for so doing . In John Buncle ' letter T see , indeed , a very brisk retort on the Evangelical party , which , as I provoked it , I suppose it behoves me to bear patiently .

    At the same time , as I am neither Evangelical nor High Church , but a lover of conscientious honesty whereever I can meet with it , I hope not to be considered a friend to orthodox

    faith or practice any farther than a 3 this appears in connexion with ingeguousness , and that with charity . Nor do I presume to attack the High Church party upon other ground than that of disin&cnuousness , in retaining

    and upholding a system of faith , by which it yet refuses to abide : and of illikerality in hunting out of the Church men whose greater conformity of belief gives them a superior claim to be considered as its real members .

    But it is to the expression of " Protestant spirit , " as applied to them , that John Buncle chiefly objects . I do not know what ideas the word " Protestant" may suggest to his mind . Sure I am that though to me it brings many cheering and delightful images ,

    I cannot connect the past history of those who have borne it with any extended views of religious toleration . I regard its chief and peculiar gift to have been the Holy Scriptures ; and its great boon to man , the substitution of the words of our Lord and his

    followers , for the traditions of a church . Now it does seem to me very clear , that if in the English Church there be any agency at work to counteract this blessed effect of Protestantism , it is that of the High Church party .

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    They dare not call m our Bibles amj substitute the Prayer-Book for them - but they take infinite and unwearied pains to prove that it is dangerous to trust the Bible alone . "A Bible , " says one of these worthies , " giVen away by a Papist will be productive of

    Popery ; the Sociman will make his Bible speak Socinianism ; while the Calvinist , the Baptist and the Quaker will teach the opinions peculiar to their sects . Supply these men with Bibles , ( I speak as a true Church man , ) and you will supply them with

    arms against yourself . " * " What God has joined together , " says Dr Wordsworth , speaking of the circulation of Church tracts with the Bible , " let not man put asunder . " " For though , " says Dr . Marsh , " without the Bible , the Liturgy has no support , yet , without the Liturgy , men are left in doubty whether the principles of our faith should be embraced by them or not . Without the Liturgy , they want a guide , to lead them to the Established Church . Without the

    Liturgy , the Bible may be made to lead them into doctrine and discipline most discordant with our own . " f In a better and , with leave from John Buncle , in a more " Protestant spirit , " exclaims Dealtry , ( an Evangelical Churchman , ) " And this is common sense and reason and charity

    and sound Churchmanship ! Internal God ! hast thou provided thy blessed Word ' to be a lamp unto our feet , and a light unto our path' ? Hast thou indeed enjoined it upon us all , as a

    sacred duty , to search the Scriptures ; to read them by day ; to meditate upon them by night ; to teach them diligently to our children ; to talk of them when we sit in the house , when we lie

    down and when we rise up ; to receive them with all reverence , as the record of truth , as the guide to everlasting life ? And shall creatures like us attempt to impede the free course of thy mercy , and to defeat thy providential designs ? Shall we interpose

    # Country Clergyman ' s Address Lord Teignmouth . f National Religion the Foundation of National Education , a Sermon preached in St . Paul's , June 13 , 1811 . By H erbert Marsh , D . D . F . U . S .

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    82 < x Evangelical" and Higfi Churchmen .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/18/