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    have brought into discussion , and on which there is any thing to be advanced which has not been already advanced . But there are several other topics of great interest and importance which I have always thought it would be very desirable to notice , and which I have always intended to

    request your permission , Mr . Editor , to discuss in your liberal and impartial Repository . But more than two years have passed away since that resolution was formed , and my time has been so little at my own command that 1 have not been able to accomplish my

    purpose . However , if you think that this is a proper subject for discussion in the Repository , and if no other person will undertake the task , ( though I sincerely hope some of your able and less occupied correspondents will undertake it , ) I will endeavour to do so :

    and if Quero do not find any thing" m what is now added to the Illustrations to remove his doubts , I shall be happy to do all in my power to assist him in solving * them , if lie will state them with precision . SOUTHWOOD SMITH .

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    whom , 1 am proud to say , I was personally and intimately acquainted ; for such Presbyterianism , which claimed authority from the Holy Ghost , which imposed creeds of human invention , and which abetted spiritual tyranny , nursed and nurtured in the very spirit

    and principles of religious liberty as I have been , I never could plead . Yet even in that age of dark superstition , Presbyteriunism was , in many respects , an enlightened form of Christianity . Presbyterianism allowed no other head of the Christian church , than Christ , and called no man master

    upon earth . It was founded on the precept , " one is your master , even Christ , and ye are brethren . " It did , indeed , acknowledge different offices , and consequently different officers , in the church of Christ , which existed in the days of the apostles ; such as teachers , presbyters or elders , and deacons , administrators of its secular

    concerns . It must , however , be added , that Presbyterianism did insist upon faith in doctrines , which , to me , appear tobe corruptions of the pure gospel of Christ . But let it likewise be

    remembered that this vvas not peculiar to that system , but , unfortunately , prevailed in all Christian churches , and even in spiritual republics , styling themselves Independent . Yet , with all its faults and defects , it was

    productive of various utilities ; its form , of worship was plain and simple ; it disavowed temporal authority in religious concerns . 1 beg leave to quote its character as drawn by the translator of the Memoirs of the Rebellion in

    17 ^ 5 , by the Chevalier dc Johnstone " Wherever the Presbyterian system has been established—in Scotland , in the north of Ireland , in Holland , Cerntauy and Switzerland , or in the wilds of North America , it luus uniformly been accompanied by a marked

    elevation of character . The great body ot the people identify themselves with Presbytery ; the humblest individual feds himself . something under it , and niised in his own eyes ; and no virtue

    can exist without such respect ; the grand foundation on which the structure of . society rests , becomes thus firm and solid . The complete establishment of Presbytery produced sueli effects , that the Scotch , who , in one

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    Irish PresbyterianUm . 167

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    Sir , Cork , January , 1822 . YOUR correspondent , who subscribes himself [ XVI . 727—729 ] "No Presbyterian / ' replies with some

    degree of warmth to a charge of misrepresentation , absolutely imaginary ; a charge which I never meant to bring against him , or any others of my English Dissenting brethren . With respect to the circumstance of which he

    complained , I did not feel interested in it , and , consequently , meant not to make any allusion to it . It was the paper in your valuable Repository , signed John M'Cready , [ XVI . 4 / 3 —

    4 / 5 , ] which called forth my explanation of the peculiar circumstances or the ministers and congregations to whom he alluded , and my representation of what Presbvtermnisni now is ,

    d ' tfreat part of Ireland , by which 1 wished to give information , which might be pleasing to my highly respected English friends ; information which I deemed justice required . For

    jr esb yterianisin , as described in the Encyclopedia Perthensis , or as deaoimced by that ' most -amiable , pious * nd eminent labourer in the gospel vuveyard , the late Dr . Toulmin ' with

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1822, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2510/page/39/