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A PROTEST,

IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND,

AGAINST SOME OF THE INFERENCES CONTAINED IN

A SERMON, PREACHED MAY 28, 1830:

AT

THE VISITATION

OF THE

WORSHIPFUL HERBERT JENNER, KNT. LL.D.

COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF THE CITY AND DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY,

BY THE

REV. J. E. N. MOLESWORTH, A.M.

RECTOR OF ST. MARTIN'S WITH ST. PAUL, &c. &c.

AND ENTITLED

"THE DANGER OF A DIVIDED HOUSE

BY HUGH LATIMER.

"If there be a division in the Church, the party termed Evangelical are not the authors of that division."—Vide p. 13.

"We have, in fact, lost many of our people to sectaries, BY NOT PREACHING SUFFICIENTLY EVANGELICAL."-Archbishop Secker.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187 PICCADILLY.

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

ADVERTISEMENT.

WISHING to know the opinion of my friend on Mr. Molesworth's Visitation Sermon, I begged him to write to me freely on the subject: and as his letter appears to me important in its matter, clear in its statements, sound in its arguments, and Christian in its spirit, I feel myself called upon to present it to the Public, and strongly to commend it to their attention.

NICHOLAS RIDLEY.

July 5, 1830.

LETTER.

MY DEAR FRIend,

I HAVE perused, as you requested me to do, Mr. Molesworth's Visitation Sermon, which has just issued from the press; and, as you desire to have my opinion of its contents, I will proceed to state it with all possible sincerity. In the mode of conducting his arguments, the Rector of St. Martin's has displayed much good temper and right feeling, and no one can doubt that he is anxious to advance the best interests of religion, and of the Church of which he is so respectable a Minister; but I much question the expediency of reviving discussions upon points of difference, in the present eventful period, even were his data more clear, and his inferences more conclusive, than a candid investigation will discover them to be. My own judgment leads me to think, that the Clergy will best promote the cause of

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