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    my telling him , in my frank way , that we will never make a little God-a-rnighty of him , and that if he should at any time give himself airs , and take upon him the priest , the general cry among us would be , " To your tents , O Israel !"

    Now Sir , after a little harmless gossip , as I hope , concerning myself , I proceed to the object of my letter , which is to offer my services , if you will please to accept them , as a sort of ecclesiastical censor . I have a good deal of leisure ; my reading , though I say it , is not limited , and I am not a little inquisitive into the conduct of sects and parties . I have an old friend who tells me I am censorious , but I generally silence him with a saying of Bishop Bumet ' s , that " whatever tenderness we owe to men ' s persons , we owe none to their errors . " I have , indeed I have , Mr . Editor , unbounded candour for all men —~

    except church-impostors and church-tyrants . You declare , Sir , in your Prospectus , that you are the advocate of Scriptural Christianity , and that your work is designed to guard the Protestant privilege of liberty of conscience ; I propose , therefore , to send you from time to time , with your

    permission , strictures upon any proceedings of any part of the religious world which may appear to me inconsistent with the Protestant religion , as that religion is described in the Ne \ # Testament . If I am at any time imprudent , check me , if I ara wrong , set me right ; together , we may I fondly hope , be of some service to the world ; we may expect , without presumption , to make priests orderlv , teachers modest , and churches

    cautious . I should not wonder indeed , if from our united efforts in this particular your work were to be known to the public less by the name of the Monthly Repository , which , by-the-b y ^ Mr , Editor , is not a very bold title , than by that of the Theolo * gical Argus .

    I begin my censorial functions with extracting from the pub * lie papers the account of the religious ceremonies observed at court on Monday , January 6 , 1806 , being Epiphany , or Twelfthday ; the day on which the star is said to have appeared to the Magi , which conducted them in the end to the infant son of Mary .

    cC Lord John Thynne , his Majesty's Vice-chamberlain , attended divine service in his Majesty ' s closet , accompanied by two of his Majesty ' s gentlemen-in-waiting / the yeomen guards , and other officers of royalty , the same as if his Majesty was p resent , " After the Gospel appointed for the day was read , a solemn

    symphony commenced on the organ , and . Lord John Thynne left the royal closet with the attendants , and proceeded up the aisle of the chapel to the altar , where he bowed three limes , * and

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    12 Strictures upon Twelfth-day .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/12/