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called forth these remarks, is to establish the importance and necessity of placing all the exertions and institutions of a missionary character, under one great episcopal confederacy; the benefits of which, the author conceives, are almost demonstrable. Yet I have not observed that he has any where stated the precise nature of the plan which should in such a case be adopted, unless the following paragraph can be considered as containing it :137 55 10 8, 10),

"We assume then the supposition that, with some few and small exceptions, the forms and ritual of the English Church are fixed upon as those which, with least inconvenience, might be sent abroad by a united Missionary Society. It remains then to ask the several classes of Dissenters how much of compromise or concession would actually be required of them in giving their support to such a plan." P. 94.

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Now surely such a person as the writer of the New Model" cannot want to be informed, that the difference between the Church and the Dissenters, does not merely respect the forms and ritual of the English Church. The mere adoption of these, he cannot imagine, would go a great way to convert the heathen, or even to prove that there is a substantial union among the friends of christianity. If he proposes to carry the union further that all

missionaries must be ordained by the Bishops of the Church of England, profess their assent and consent to all that is contained in the Articles and Liturgy of the Church, and that the societies generally shall be subject to episcopal rule and government; he cannot be serious in expecting that we are prepared for such a state of things as this, or that there is any human probability the time will ever come, christian church will submit to it.

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thing less than this would not answer, as far as I can conjecture, the author's views. He speaks, but with amazing tenderness for the scruples and feelings of church-men, of their "setting an example of forbearance, by admitting a few modifications, or retrenchments, into the forms abroad;" and of their doing this, "not so much to satisfy their dissentiug brethren, as attending to hints and acknowledgments advanced by pious churchmen." He appeals to them, whether they ought to contend thus far for "an indifferent particle, a worthless par‐ ticle," to gratify "the wishes or weaknesses of their brethren." Truly, if there is no contest among us, except about indifferent and worthless particles, the controversy must be a very indifferent and worthless affair altogether, and the sooner that it is ended the better.

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If he would carry his "New Model" of episcopacy a little farther than he has thought it right to express; if it is not, after all, the entire system of the Church of England he would send abroad, but some improvement or modification of it, then I submit, the scheme, so far, from producing unity, would create another division; a new party would be formed, neither church nor dissent, having in all probability some of the imperfections, as well as some of the good qualities of both. Instead, therefore, of this new model producing extensive and combined union and co-operation, presenting a glorious mass of harmonious principle and united exertion, it would only add another section to the already divided, and as the author imagines, conflicting hosts....

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The grounds on which this claim is put forth on behalf of the church, are not the more scriptural nature of its forms or discipline; but from its constituting the majority in this country, and possessing various other advantages, he argues the point should be conceded to it. On this subject the following passage occurs :

The sound members of the Established Church, the men-clergy and laity, who profess the doctrine of the martyrs, the saints, the sages of the English reformation, stand certainly distinguished among the

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professors of the same faith, if not by number, yet by several signal pre-eminences. To them (generally) belongs the visible advantage of secular precedency. With them are rank and fortune; gifts which acceptably may be laid at the feet of the King of kings. Theirs are the benefits, inestimable, of thorough education-an advantage which the Lord has in every age vouchsafed to make use of when he has had eminent public services in hand. By them, almost exclusively, is enjoyed the honour of enduring something more like a real persecution from the world, than has been suffered in England a long while by any class of Christians. And may it not be added, that the pious members of the Established Church enjoy at the present moment, by eminence, that influence of the Holy Spirit from which spring seriousness of temper, simplicity of faith, and purity of morals; and which moreover is ordinarily conferred upon those who are in training for pecular sufferings or services?

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"These distinctions give to the body of enlightened Churchmen a visible claim to the honour of taking the lead in any new and important measures in which the interests of Christianity at large may be involved. An alternative not to be evaded is before these persons;-they must either take up the part which heaven assigns them, or lose rank in front of the church universal." Pp. 122, 123.

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author of the "New Model," under a mask, I should be tempted to offer some strictures; I consider it objectionable in principle, and incorrect in fact. Comparisons of such a description are odious; they either savour of pride, or they provoke to its exercise, and are by no means calculated to promote either the cause of religion, or of christian union. the author expects that union will be accomplished by the admission of such statements, I am afraid he has little acquaintance with the parties who are expected to make the sacrifices. To make sacrifice to principle, and to a sense of duty, every christian ought to consider his honour; but to bow down to a new system of expediency, the necessity of which is not apparent, and which cannot be adopted, but by a compromise of principle and consistency, is too much to require, and what would be dishonourable to do.

On Dissenters the subject is urged in the following passage:

"There might even be adduced another reason of the proposed concession, which Churchmen, without discredit, might urge, and of which Dissenters might, with honour to themselves, acknowledge the force. Is it not, by usage universal, the custom for lighter carriages to swerve from their line of road,

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