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    MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.

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    of Commons ; give them a pliant and a servile House of Lords ; give them the keys of the Treasury and the patronage of the Crown ; and give me the Liberty of the Press , and with this mighty engine I will overthrow the fabric of corruption , and establish upon its ruins the rights and privileges of the people / In like manner , give the Catholics of Ireland their emancipation ; give them a seat in the Parliament of their country - , give them a free and

    equal participation in the politics of the realm ; give them a place at the right ear of Majesty , and a voice in his counsels ; and give me the circulation of the Bible , and with this mighty engine I will overthrow the tyranny of Antichrist , and establish the fair and original form of Christianity on its ruins . — ( The delivery of this splendid passage , which was given with prodigious force , elicited a burst of applause so deafening and enthusiastic , that the effect was altogether sublime . The shouts and huzzas were thrice renewed , and it was with difficulty the ' speaker could proceed . )

    ** The politics of the question I have left to other and abler hands . I view it only in its religious bearings , and I give it as my honest conviction , and I believe the conviction of every true-hearted Protestant who knows wherein it is that the great strength of his cause lies , that we have every thing to hope from this proposed Emancipation , and that we have nothing to fear . ( The conclusion of the Rev . Doctor ' s speech was greeted with renewed shouts and huzzas , the whole audience standing and waving their hats in the air . This lasted several minutes , and it was not without difficulty that the tumult of admiration was allayed . )"—Pp . 17—20 .

    And here we trust we take our final leave , except as a matter of history , of the discussion on the question of admitting Roman Catholics to the full possession of the rights of men and citizens in the British Empire .

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    points , extremely abstruse aud difficult to be understood , and some of them professedly above comprehension , i . e . above human understanding ; so , to effect their purpose , they assume the necessity of a class of men devoted to the study of these difficult aud metaphysical questions , who , haviiig attained a sufficient

    knowledge of what it is that is above comprehension , are to make it plain to others : this plainness being still of such a nature , that the hearer is not qualified to do without the teacher , or to pass a judgment upou his doctiiue , or to reason upon it , or to think upon it , as a matter of truth or error .

    The peculiar doctrines of Christianity , as they are called , are few in number , and yet so lengthy and onerous in their explanation and illustration , if such it may be called , that perhaps it may be said , the preacher always ends where he begins , and that revolving years only bring with them the same perpetual motion of propositions , so varied ,, dissected , and recomposed , that while you recognize every feature , you can never per-

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    282 Miscellaneous Cowespondence .

    Miscellaneous Correspondence.

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    Co-operation . Letter III . To the Editor . Sir , I come now to shew why Uuitarianism , if consistent , ought to be more favourable to Co-operation than any other religious persuasion .

    In this argumeut , it will not he necessary to advocate the truth of Unitarianism , but only to follow the assumption to its consequences , and to state as fairly as possible the contrasts of creeds . 1 assume , then , the simplicity of the creed : unqualified respect for the rights of conscience : unlimited civil liberty : individual independence of mind : universal spread of knowledge .

    Ihose who have lived much among the orthodox , to use a distinctive name , have perhaps observed that the practical object of their creed is dogma , not happiness . It is to make all mankind think alike or profess alike , not to make them all happy alike . As they have undertaken to do this upon a vast number of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1829, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2571/page/58/