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Excerpt from State Churches and the Kingdom of Christ: An Essay on the Establishment of Ministers, Forms and Services of Religion by Secular Power; And on Its Inconsistency With the Free, Humbling, Spiritual Nature of the Christian Dispensation
In this age, when unsound principles pertinaciously acted on, and grievances long unredressed, have but recently given birth to wide-spread revolutions, overturning ancient political edifices and uprooting the foundations of society in many countries, it is especially necessary, by way of guarding against danger and strengthening just institutions, to remove obvious evils as soon as possible. But indeed purer motives ought to prompt a course of sound constitutional reformation, on questions of vital importance to the highest interests of all our fellow-subjects, and especially of the English Episcopal Church herself, and to effect the dissolution of those degrading fetters, which bind her in unholy connection with political authority.
Firm is my opinion, that the union argued against is the grand defect of the British constitution, that the growing light of the age will assuredly prove, under the Divine Blessing, too strong for its retention, and that it must and will be done away. May those in power deliberate and act wisely, ere it be too late and thus be the honourable instruments of good to our beloved country, averting those rash measures, which operate not peaceably and lawfully, but with tumult and widely diffused distress, in?icting incalculable injury of various kinds on the nations which resort to them. Christian meekness and moral firmness combined are essential to the right conduct of every real religious reformation.
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