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    language may have been somewhat ambiguous . But we must say we are somewhat surprised to fiud , that though Mr . Beldam chooses to assert that we have waived " all claims to consideration / ' his better judgment has shewn him the

    necessity of recognising more or less the propriety of , we believe , all our strictures but one . If we were inclined to be as fastidious as he is , we might perhaps complain of this uugracious mode of profiting by the precepts of others We shall shortly notice each of the poiuts adverted to by us ou the former

    occa-. We complained of the absence of the actual texts of the penal Jaws ; Mr . Beldam has now given them in his Appendix . We wished for some statement or opinion as to the classes of persons affected by the Test , and we have in a note some information to remove that deficiency . Mr . Beldam has recast some of his

    statements , as to the Indemnity Acts , so as to meet our observations on that head He persists in his denuition of Nonconformity ; but his reasons , and the alterations made in his mode of stating the question , shew that our observations were felt to be weighty and required modification in the subject of them . We still think that it would have been

    more correct to lay down the rule sanctioned by the highest legal tribunal , with a query founded ou the unrepealed . statute of 5 and 6 Edward VI . c . i ., and 1 Elizabeth , c . \\ . \ if indeed those statutes are to be considered to be applicable , or to be unaffected by the Toleration Act , which we greatly doubt . We objected to Mr . Beldam ' s identification of Christianity with " the tenets and services of the Church of England . " He has corrected it .

    Heresy too attracted our notice , and here again Mr . Beldam is become ; more cautious . On the subject of Registration , the new and amended form used at Dr . Williams ' s Library is introduced . Oii the subject of Quaker marriages

    he has met onr objections , and very properly removed them , We are inclined to thiiik that he takes up rather more brotfdly than , as a lawyer , he is Strictly justified in doing , one side of the argument as to murrtage at the common law : Mr Beldam's form of trust deed

    remains as it did . -We ought perhaps to qualify our expressions on this point .

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    As a legal instrument it is elaborate and finished , but it ought to be at least accompanied by a shorter form applicable to common cases . The form given is , in nineteen cases out of twenty , totally inappropriate , and far too costly for adoption by congregations o ! limited

    means . The above bsiug the state of the question between us and Mr . Beldam , and that gentleman having ( as we have a right to assume on his own authority ) amended his book on our suggestions in

    almost every particular noticed by us , we leave him to say whether , when he shewed his judgment in profiting by advice , he might not have evinced a little more good humour , by receiving well-grounded hints with somewhat less of fastidiousness as to the terms in which they were couched .

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    Art . VIII . —A Pastoral Letter from the Scotch Presbytery in London to the Baptized of the Scottish Church residing' in London , 8 fc . London ,

    . 1828 . This Letter is evidently a coinage from the mint of the Rev . Edward Irviug . It has all the usual characteristics of hi £ style and manner . There are to be found in it some fine sentiments , fiuely expressed , though the general tone and spirit is that of the most narrow aud bigoted intolerance , aud the language in

    which it is conveyed , for the most part , quaint and affected .. Ft purports to be the address of the Scotch Presbytery in London to the baptized of the Scottish Church there residing ; but it is in fact the lamentations of Mr . Irving over the fallen state of the metropolitan Presbyteriau churches , and the outpouring of

    his indignant spirit upon the heads of the offending backsliders . . We were not aware , till the fact was stated in this Letter , that so great a defection ( nine out of ten ) had taken place , and was constantly going on a : nong the members of the Scotch church in these parts , though , perhaps , it ought not to be matter of wonder when we consider that it

    is of the nature of rich a , ud powerful establishments , like that of the English Church , to draw into its bosom the indifferent , the worldly-minded , and the careless of all sects . In the first days of Christianity , and before it attained to the honour and dignity of a State Religion , we know , that not many noble , not many mighty , were to be numbered

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/49/