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REFLECTIONS.

Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand.

REFLECTIONS

S.H. 1825.

UPON THE

MOST PREDOMINANT RELIGIOUS OPINIONS,

IN

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

BY EMANUEL HUTCHINSON ORPEN, Esq.

AUTHOR OF THE POLITICAL RETROSPECT FOR

GREAT BRITAIN,

AN EXPOSURE OF IRISH AFFAIRS, &c.

A vessel is in great danger of destruction, when under guidance of a compass
which (after having been forced out of its original true direction) has become stiff
with rust, and obstinately points (as to the pole) where no pole can be found.

It is likewise proper to notice whatever errors are discoverable, even in the course,
supposed to be most correct, otherwise your vessel may be tossed about by every wind
of doctrine.
HINTS TO NAVIGATORS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

J. HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY.

MDCCCXXV.

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trious examples, and with some good reasons to justify a layman in occasionally submitting to the public his views upon religious concerns; but I can advance little justification for so incompetent an individual, in thus coming forward. The writer of the following pages, however, deemed the composition of them so beneficial to himself, that he could not resist the impulse which induced him to send them to the press.

My chief desire, at present, is that this humble effort may deserve the approbation of the

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