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    class of men to illustrate the Scriptures , appear to have beea Edglish divines , though not generally of ' oiir E ^ l ^ feK ^ a " € hiirch ; but tbe Nbnc 6 n % mist Lardner , and Jones , atid ? B € ns $ ft 9 aitf ^ E ^ n » i ^| tbn y ^ and . 'P « BTCe . We do not quote these examples in at ~ £ pifteefparade aadviavWioiJsness ,- but merely to shew that " the'Dissenters Jtiave ^ been wroh ^ ed ^ and tha ^ Twe ^ haye some ground for refusing ' assent to the fiwee |> fiig and unqualified ? assefrtfoh ofiBbtiop Marsh , that therecan be ^ noiearning without an ^ efcta 1 > HshmemV " -c : .

    Wf are ^ wiHirig' to lio ^ e that better days are . cut ^ reserve : fbt raaaktnd , and that ar )^ nli ^ tenBd ^^ in ^ iltgent public , suqh -. asm now strea ^ &wii ^ itielf iii ^ y ^ rj ^ free dotmlry WEuftfpe , if Tmrestrair # d ^ rt ; tberap |^^^ energy ' and'fesdurces , wftl-be found hereafter abund ^ lyvad € quate ? Jbtithe * accbro ^ lfc&ment of all th ose objec ts toi wmch establ i shm € in ^ ? hiiy ^ hithe rto been-deemed essential , and which yet they have so Jimperfeetlyl fulfilled . Their existence , nioreover , has in most countries prevented ihe resources of the' public horn being sufficiently appreciated and sufficiently tried . In the Netherlands , ^ t the present < iay , there are perhaps more literary and

    scientificinstitutions in a healthy and flourishing state than in any country ofv the same eiterit" in Europe ; twit of these'institutions we believe the whole , or , at'teast the ' far greater part , are entirely dependent on the voluntary support of the public * ' ^ : . ; . .,., ? : The Kotestant Dissenters of England , we mean all who really deserve that title , by acknowledging , in their utniost extent , the principles or religious

    liberty , have never yet felt their strength ; they have weakened themselves by internal jealousies and divisions , and by meanly compr 4 misirigf their principles in order to secure some partial benefit , instead of unitihg ^ yvith one heart and one voice to demand the restitution of their rights , and combj ning their resouroes -to found on a wide- and comprehensive basis some national institution , that might compensate to them the want of those academical advantages from- which they are so unjustly excluded at the two Universities . This last want we trlist to see effectually-supplied in the London University . Nor will we ' dissemble our fervent hope , that the different of

    ^ bodies Protestant Dissenters throughout the kingdom- will avail themselves of this noble institution for the complete education of their divines , 'b y CQn .- * necting with it the necessary provisions for instruction in t ^ var ^ pj ^ branches of " theological learning . We can Qpnceive , pf po ^ v ^ ^| , W ^ shpulffliail with grea | ter ' delight , as more calc ^ at ^ d ^ destroy tb ^ spmt of ^ sec ^ rianisra which imbitteis the iute ^ juriet . of jsQci § ty ^ n 43 egrad ^ s ^ vthe ^ ilcal lileratu ce of iour country . YouW ri ^ ri ' of ardent and inge ?

    ^ Ir ^ dPi ?^ ¦ bniipitN-bu ^ - 'brdi ^; 1 ^ ioEii of ^ ifr ^ rml \ c oiqpwmidp ^ an 4 , i » iPg 4 ling togetherAh the'fre ^ e spirit ap 4 . generous rivalries ofa ; great national seat of learning could not fail , amidst the light of science and p hilosophy , to unlearn the prejudices of a party , to acquire a more enlarged and independent mode of thinking , and to cling most earnestly to those truths which rest on the strongest evidence , are most in unison with the unperverted sentiments of the human heart , and tend most directly to the improyement and exaltation of the human species . There are several-branches of theological

    learning , of which all reli g ious sects might agree to found a professorshi p * as not involving any discussion of controverted Opinions , sucn as Hebrew , Sytfac ,. and the other Oriental tdngties , Biblical Criticfam , Jewish and Chiristiaii Anliqufes / pcclesiastical History , and the Evidences of Religion , l ^ atu-¦ ' * ¦ ' ¦ I . . 1 " ., , 1- .,,- I ¦ . I , ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ t 11-11 ' ' ' ' ' " ¦" l ' " " " ¦ " ¦ " -

    * See a very interesting article on this subject In a repent number of the Revue JSncgctop<que . ' > - > ' ¦ ' . ¦; .. / .., ; : i

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/33/