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    refuge in the plea of universal depravity , while it neglects the promises of universal recovery , held out to all who will avail themselves of them . In this comprehensive survey of defectiveness which is not peculiar to party , but belongs to human nature , we feel the littleness of a defence set up by any one sect against the attacks of another , and would remember that there is a sense in which it becomes us to feel that we have no claim to plead guiltless .

    " We are accused of making too little of our Saviour , and we forget , perhaps , in our eagerness to defend ourselves , that we are , in common with all men , in danger of thinking too little of him , " •* Again , we are accused of making too little of our sins . Now the circumstance of our being thus accused , may have brought about the very thing with which we are charged : we deny that this is the tendency of our principles , and forget , perhaps , that it is , nevertheless , the tendency of our nature . " *

    From the unprofitable task , then , of self-vindication . we turn , and only would hope that the accused and accusers may improve one another , and each take in larger draughts at the fountains of truth and charity .

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    * » Art . II . —A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Peterborough , on the Influence of the Roman Catholic Question on the Established Church . By Herbert , Lord Bishop of Peterborough . London , Rivington . Pp . 20 . The position of the Church of England in relation both to the Roman Catholics and the Protestant Dissenters , at the present crisis , is peculiarly interesting . The public are naturalJy anxious to see in what light that

    position is viewed by the clergy themselves , and how their feelings with regard to it are likely to affect the ultimate decision of those great questions , which involve not merely an abstract principle of natural justice , but , in all probability , the continued repose and prosperity of the British empire . In this point of view , the charges of the superior clergy generally deserve attention , as affording indications of the state of opinion in the great and powerful

    body which they are intended to influence ; but the high name of Bishop Marsh , coupled with the supremely important nature of the subject on which he has chosen to address the clergy of his diocese , cannot fail to attract a more than ordinary share of notice to the publication which we have placed at the head of the present article . We must confess that our bad opinion of the moral influence of religious establishments is not a little

    strengthened , when we find a prelate , so deservedly eminent for learning and abilities as the Bishop of Peterborough , in the same clear and luminous style which distinguishes the better productions of his pen , advocating the cause of exclusion and intolerance ( for we do not see how the ideas can be separated ) , and inculcating principles which , if followed into their legitimate consequences , would almost lead to a denial of the right of liberty of

    . The principal object of the Charge is to point out the danger which must accrue to the National Church from granting the claims of those , whether

    * Hints to Unitarians . Boston , America . Reprinted by the Liverpool Unitariau Book Society .

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    Review . —Bishop of Peterborough ' s Charge . 243

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/27/