Excerpt from The Eclectic Review, Vol. 10: 1841, July-December We have just been greeted with the following most edifying example of self-complacenfiy. It occurs in the preface to a volume Of Lectures on the eadship of Christ, ' by no fewer than seven ministers of the established Church of Scotland. 'the grand religious controversy of the present age, ' say they, concerns the union of Church and state. This controversy has two parts - the one of which respects the lawfulness, the other the conditions of such union. Of the former it may without Offence or presumption be said, that it is already determined. After five or six years Of keen and able discussion, on every arena open to the combatants - on the platform, in the senate, and through the press - the supporters of the lawfulness Of national establishments of religion have not only kept their ground, but have made a decided movement in advance. The public mind has been confirmed in its attachment to a princi le which, after the most searching investigation, has been found to be so manifest] consonant to right reason and to the word of God. And as the natural result, not only have those O en and avowed attempts to overthrow the existing national churches of the empire, which in the earlier stages of the con troversy were presented with so much vigor, been almost abandoned; but these churches have greatly extended their resources and influence, and at this moment undoubtedly possess a much larger share of the people's sympathy and esteem than when they were first assailed. It is the latter branch Of the controversy with which we have now to deal. The lawfulness Of a union between Church and state being decided, the conditions Of that union are what remain to be tried.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.