Transcribed from the 1836 Josiah Fletcher edition by David Price. THE MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH Vindicated FROM CERTAIN CHARGES, DIRECT OR IMPLIED, IN A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THEM BY THE REV. JOHN ALEXANDER, ON THE SUBJECT OF INFANT EDUCATION. * * * * * * * * * * BY WILLIAM GEARY. * * * * * * * * * * NORWICH: PRINTED BY JOSIAH FLETCHER, UPPER HAY MARKET. 1836. _Price Threepence_. THE MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH Vindicated. IN times and under circumstances of an ordinary character, the letter, to which the following pages refer, might with safety be left to find its proper place in the public mind. It is characterized by a spirit of mildness and conciliation; and, as much of its censure is founded on erroneous impressions, the consequences would have been but momentary. But, in the present extraordinary times, there are not wanting those who would gladly seize upon the occasion, as a favourable one for widening the differences and perpetuating the antipathies, which unhappily prevail among Christians, and hence it appears desirable that the public should be set right with regard to the course now taken by those who are implicated in the charges. The main charges appear to be:— I. That the parties in question have acted unkindly and disrespectfully, so far as they have interfered with the arrangements for the exhibition in St. Andrew’s Hall. II. An assumption, (perfectly groundless,) that the plan of the proposed society would exclude all children except those of parents belonging to the Established Church, and III. That a society embracing in its direction and operations, all sects and denominations, would have worked more for the public good than the one proposed.