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doubtless entitled to the same prj > - vil ^ ge . w ith me , - of examining and judging for themselves . . . ; , \ The Church of England , and the Church of Christ , appear to
be two societies perfectly distinct , a * id widely different from each other . Christ himself is the only proper head of his own church . He has positively forbidden us to acknowledge any other authority
in religious concerns . But the king is the head of the church of England , and claims submission to his injunctions . The doctrine and the laws of Christ are fully and clearly stated in the New Testament . That book is
undoubtedly the proper rule and standard of a Christian ' s faith and practice . But in the Church of England , if we wish to know what to
believe and do , we are referred to the Book of Common Prayer , the thirty-nine Articles , and the Hoiniiies . There seems , therefore , to be so material a difference
between the Church of Jesus Christ and the Church of England , that it is surprising how they should ever have been considered * the
same , or , I had almost said , as having any relation to each other . A adhere it seems curious to notice how men run into opposite ^ extremes . " A Churchman , " some time ago , mentioned it as an
inconsistency in Unitarians , that they admitted the sufficiency of the Scriptures , though they denied them t , p be divinely inspired . The Church of England , on the con *
trary , acknowledges them to be divinely inspired , and yet virtu * ^ Jl y denies their sufficiency . For ^ hy ] bas she established thirty-nine & rticles ^ nd th ree cre e ds of her WHr if not tp supply their defects ?
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defect ^ lea & tyt explicitness or perspicuity t 4 ; J -burrq But not only does the Church of England appear to be n' different
society from theCiruteh of Christy but the doctrines which she pro * fesses , and wfaicl ^ she enjoi ns her members to believe , under painorf eternal damnation , are such * as I
am unable to reconcile with thoste laid down in the New Testament . In that book we are told , that " there is but one God the Father . *' In the Church of England , even in the form of instruction for
children , we are taught to look up to God the Father , God the Son , and God the Holy Ghost ; In the former , the blessings of the Gospel are are asctibed _ to the free grace and mercy of God ; in the
latter , they are said to bepurchas * ed by the death and sufferings of Christ . In the one * we are told that the wicked will be punished in proportion to their demerit ; in the other , that their sufferings will have no termination . Nowi
though Churchmen , or some of them , may possess sufficteat inge * nuity to reconcile , or to diminish these , at least apparent incongru * ities , I freely confess , that to me * they seem insuperable objections to a communion with the
established church * And , therefore , though like " a Churchman , '' I was born and educated in her bosom , I am at present obliged j from conscientious motives , to profess myself a Dissenter . * A Churchman ' s" reasons for
conformity , seem to amount to this ; that on the whole , n <* fcwithstanding some things that heican ^ not approve of , he prefefa ( the Church of England to any deap + mk & tion of dissenter * \ that dis-
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at of S 73 Mr * Allchin Qn 4 ke & i CkUrokm ^ n ^ Measons ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/20/
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