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Free And Candid Dl Sauisltions American ...
ceptation or the sense given to them by the iiBposers of forms and articles _. While I am upon this subject I cannot help remarking that
what the alliance between Church and 'St & fte _? -will _probabfy ever prevent in Britain _^ has been accomplished in a coimtry where Church and State intrude not on each other ' s province . I have now before me u the book of common prayer , & c _, as revised and proposed to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church , at 1
a convention of the said church held in Philadelphia _, _2 78 A . _* In this compilation the alterations recomnicrided by Burnett , Tillotson , & c . in 1689 , and since by the Free and Candid _Djsquisitors , are generally ' adopted .
This American _Churchy as-Tillotson vainly wished for his own , has got rid of the Athanasian Creed * , retaining only that called the apostle ' s , with the omission of the _" descent into hell . _" The burial office , & c . are reformed - The separation from Britain has _dislodged our Saints , Charles first and second , from Britain has _dislddffed our Saints , Charles first and second , Sec . from this service-oook _^ their place being * supplied by a thanksgiving for " the _anniversary of American independence /* and for' * the fruits of the _earth /* which are the only national offices . The articles are reduced to twenty * though _these are orthodox enough _^ and _retain the paradoxes of the trinity , by _which the psalmody also is sadly disfigured .
Yet let us hope that while our " best constituted Church / _mustbeupdhangeabtej this American Church , _unencumbered by an alliance with the state , may reform and re-reform * and thu § go on unto perfection * I am Sir , your _* s Nov . 13 , 18 Q 7 . — BEREUS _.
Letter Jrom The Rev. F. Stone. Mil
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_££ TTEH FROM THE REV . _FRA-NCIS STONE _fo the Editor of the Monthly Repository _* Sir , I shall be obliged i > y your _oorrectian of an erratum of the press in your Repository for November , viz . for exercise of /* page 566 _, line four , read exclusive , that is , _exclusive of worship of other gods , or _derai-gode . I giadly embi _^ ace this
_opportunity to thank you for your polite readiness to _ijisext my communications , and not _ctoubting but you will invariably _persist in your laudable , dispassionate , impartial career , I cordially wish an increase of success to your liberally planned and executed Jtepository , to _jhe extent of your owji wishes , and have the honour to be _r ! jfQjjr * s sincerely ,
FRANCIS STONE . Michael ' s Place , BrQmpion % Dec . 7 _^ 1807 ; * * The _account _gjven of _Atjutt _^ _ius _' s creed , _^ _cems to me _no-w isa _5 atitfaotot 7 _k ' 1 _Tvith wewere well rid of it T . ** ' Tillotson P , Leu to _Burnett cm _th _^ Exp _cuuuou < jC * hc _Artickfc Birch _^ X-ifc of . % d Ed . . 3 x 5 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 647, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/27/
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