On this page

• Departments (1)
  • 
• Text (3)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    AN ILLUSTRATION.

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    mating' me in this , light , they hesitated to follow me .. A § to the second question , I must remark that there is a wide difference between coercion exerpised on a professed member of a Church , and on a dissenter . The Church of England ,

    for instance , demands church-rate fn > raTney aM ~ T pay ifonly ~ b y compulsion , deeming it , as I do , to be a direct infringement of religious liberty , when a Church , to the doctrines of which I do not assent , presumes to require of me money for the support of its own creed ; but

    if I had ever enrolled myself a member of that Church , and still more if I had taken its holy orders , and distinctly pledged myself to the observance of its regulations , it would be with a bad grace that I exclaimed against the enforcement of them . If I do not choose to comply , the Church

    will compel me , or it will exclude me from its body ; and the mistake which , IJhavej ; oTnmitted rA £ anj r is that . of having ever associated myself with a society , in which such an expulsion was clearly within the bounds of possibility . In entering the Church I did ' padlock rav lips ;'

    I did it voluntarily and of my own accord , knowing the penalty in case of disobedience ; if , therefore , I cannot now conscientiously do it any longer , or if I cannot persuade the majority of my assessors to tjhink as I do , and . to _ make , a . corresponding

    change in their institution , the only course left for me is to declare off , and to retire peaceably and honourably from a body of men , with whom , had my sentiments been always what they now are , I never should have connected myself .

    That in the instance referred to the opposition was contumacious , and that the . Venerable Company of Pasr tors exercised their power reiuct anffy , and with no unnecessary severity , will , I think , be admitted by those who look into the original documents or who ar # even content to yely m tfe Mjtfory of $ es $ tw ^ gf *

    Untitled Article

    actions , given in the Unitarian Ckronicle for October last , as well as in the Monthly Repository for September , 1831 . To the latter article I would beg leave to refer your correspondent , and especially to p . 610 , where he will find the main point of the present answer more fully . statejL The Writer of the Article in the Unitarian Chronicle for October .

    Untitled Article

    . UNITARIAN CHRONICLE . 4 ?

    Untitled Article

    It is not , perhaps , generally known that , among other representations of Charity by the ancient Iconologists , we find a female figure with separate

    names arising from her head , from her heart , and from the palms of her hands ; intimating , doubtless , that an elevated charity has its origin in the understanding , as well as its seat in the heart , and its exercise in the hands . The flame or fire upon the headjl thinks furnishes- us with "' sCtiL excellent- illustration of Rom . xii .

    20 . and Prov . xxv . 21 , 22 . substituting for the vindictive sense in which the final clause of this text is commonly apprehended , a very amiable picture df a Christian awakening the fire of enlightened benevolence in arflulversary , by the continual display of religious meekness and an untiring spirit of mercy .

    In William Tyndai ' s Pfity of a Christian Man ^ or Obedience of all Degrees , a work which has been lately reprinted , are the following words , which I quote from the original edir Mob , p , 44 : < If thine enemye hongre , feade him : if he thurst giue him drinke . For in so * doynge thpu ; 8 ] i allJ ^ SPJ ^ pJ ^ s . pfJFyr ) 3 ., oa . hi 3-he-ed

    { that is , thou shalt kindle hue in Mm . ) ' This explanation Tynilaj gives without hesitation , and takixig a full view of the context . Herein the conjunct precept , * overcome evil with good , ' is obeyed to the letter , which can hardly be asserted upon the principles of the vulgar in , * ^ gretation ,

    An Illustration.

    AN ILLUSTRATION .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1833, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2607/page/15/