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of prevailing error, who adopt a maxim unsanctioned either by the Gofpel or experience, that false opinions, if let alone, will die of themselves. These are patterns of discretion, after which I feel no wish to copy. The Bible has taught me, what it will teach every man who is difpofed to learn, that there can be no compromise between truth and error. If, therefore, the doctrine maintained in my book respecting the church, as a fociety of CHRIST's framing, be true; the conclufions drawn from it must stand their ground, how unpalatable foever they may be to thofe Chriftians, who, "instead of drawing living water for the use of the fanctuary from the fresh Springs of antiquity, take up with fuch as comes to them at fecond or third hand from the Lake of Geneva.”

The cause I have taken in hand, I am well aware is not a popular one. That weak and temporizing conduct, by which many of the cabinets of Europe have contributed to the fuccefs of the defolating fyftem of French policy, feems to be the conduct which is judged to be beft fuited to the present circumstances of the church. The confequence, it is to be feared, will be, that that deluge of fectarianism which is now inundating our land on every fide, will in the end fweep away every barrier which the constitution of

this country has to oppose to its deftructive progress. This idea, however, is not likely, at this time, to be generally adopted. The loofe habit of thinking,

which conftitutes one of the characteristics of the prefent day, must be unfavourable to an advocate for established order. But that minister of the church who is not prepared to go through evil report, has undertaken an office for which he is unqualified. "If they have called the mafter of the house beelzebub, how much more fhall they call them of his household." MATT. X. 24, 25.

When I confider what the church of England has been, and what she now is, (to make use of the strong language of a very great man) "like an oak, cleft to fhivers with wedges made out of its own body," it is not without anxiety that I look forward. When I confider, moreover, that the established church of England, an undoubted branch of the church of CHRIST, furnishes the beft fecurity for the prefervation both of Chriftian doctrine and the peace and happiness of my country; my earneft prayer to GoD is, that she may be restored to Apoftolic purity. Should it, however, be the will of that Being who ruleth in all the kingdoms of the earth, that, in judgment for the defertion of her profeffing friends,

or the general unworthinefs of her members, the enemies of the church fhall be permitted to lay her honour in the dust, as a minister fincerely attached to her caufe, I feel no wish to furvive the fatal event.

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OF PRINCIPAL MATTERS.

AUGUSTIN

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ANDREWS Bishop, on the Name of Bishops

Apoftles and Bishops diftinguished

Authority of a Text generally brought in Favour of Presby-

terian Ordination, denied by CALVIN

Articles, Homilies, and Liturgy confiftent

AUGUSTIN ST. on Divine Decrees

Article, Ninth and Tenth, Doctrine of

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Eleventh, Doctrine of

Seventh, Doctrine of

Seventeenth

Articles, Anti-Calvinistic

ANDREWS Bishop, on the Minifterial Commiffion

Article Nineteenth

-particularly quoted

ANDREWS Bishop, on the Corruption of the Gospel

BURNETT Bishop, his Comment on the Nineteenth Article

Baptism of Diffenters

Bishop and Presbyter, distinction between

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Babel, the City of Confufion, applied by Bishop ANDREWS

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Broad-bottom Chapels

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BACON Lord, his Confeffion of Faith

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CALVINISM, not the Standard by which to judge of Chriftians
not effential to Salvation

Charity, the great characteristic of Chriftianity

Church, the Candlestic

Pillar and Ground of Truth

Church Government, built on the commiffion originally deli-
vered to the Apostles

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CALVIN'S Judgment of Diffenters from the Epifcopacy of the

Church of England

CLEMENT ST. on Epifcopal Government

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CALVINISM deemed Heresy

CHRIST's Church, feparate Branches of

Church, independent of the Civil Power

Condition of Episcopal, in Scotland and America

and State, not neceffarily connected

of CHRIST, a vifible Society

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CALVINISTIC Doctrine, not the genuine Senfe of the Church

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Church of England Service not out of the Church

CARTWRIGHT, CAMPBELL

CLEMENT ST.

Diffenter, Judgment of, left to GOD

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Doctrine and Establishment of the Church, equally effential
Diftinction between Spiritual and Temporal Government
Divine Decrees inexplicable, 160 not abfolute 496, 501 et feq.
Diffenters, pious Chriftians and Members of the Church in
this Country, diftinction between

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