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respecting a humble posture in a creature when addressing hi 3 Creator ) , as well as of the beneficial use of liturgies , for enabling the congregation to take a requisite share in the devotions paid to their God , with the minister , that he was induced to try his influence over the prejudices of his public auditors there ( some time before he quitted that town ) , and so well succeeded with many , if not the major part of them , as to gairi their consent for the introduction and use of proper books for the intended purpose , and also of hassocks , or matted forms , for the convenient kneeling of such as ( not being prevented by infirmity , &c . ) were willing to use them . By some persons ,
even of the Established Church , it has been urged as an excuse for not obeying their rubrick in that particular * * that kneeling , when out of observation , affords opportunity and temptation for indecent indolent lolling , & : c . totally precluded by a standing attitude : " but , as a reply to this , it-may surely be very fairly said and concluded , that to such unmeaning worshippers it can be of no sort of consequence what kind of attitude they use ( as far as relates to themselves ) ; for , whatever they may be desirous of appearing to men , " they can intend , at best and most , to be /* hearers only / ' For my own part , 1 must think that the most serious attention is always in danger of being disturbed , in a standing posture , by many possible and frequently occurring circumstances . Thosq , persons , however , who judge otherwise , have an undoubted right , and ought to act , in this and every other similar instance , to the satisfaction of their own minds j and it is humbly hoped , that no offence will be given , by the adoption of this mode of endeavouring to gain desirable information on a subject , in which , for reasons
already alleged , and for some others , I find mysejf interestedor affront taken by any person , at the liberty used in accompanying the request made with some hints , remarks , &x . which , it is presumed , may secure from censure or observation those few that at any time may distinguish themselves J ) y a singularity which nothing could induce them to do ( in a place of public
worship , more especially ) but a requisite obedience to their own sentiments of religious reverence for the Deity , with other devotional incitements . Bat should you , Sir , judge this letter in any respect improper for publication , ( and , particularly , should you apprehend from * it an unpardonable displeasure in
any of your readers ) , you are quite at liberty to dispose of it in any other way of which you may think it only worthy . Fully conscious of being perfectly free from the smallest inclination to favour a regard to mete superstitious punctilios , as well as from every the least degree of pharisaical arrogance , Ishall remain . Sir , Your very humble servant , £ } ct . 16 . 1 SQ 6 . ' " A Christian Unitarian .
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X ) n Kneeling in Public Worship . 629
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/13/
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