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paradoxical and incomprehensible . Before the reader peruses it , I beg leave to refer him to the first motto of my first letter .
u A true , a pure , and a legal church / € c CK What is a true church ?—A . That is a true church in which the word of God is preached , and the sacraments are duly administered by persons rightly ordained . Q ,. What is a pure church ? - —A . A pure church is that which is free from
all doctrines and ordinances which are contrary to the Scriptures . Q . What is a legal church ?—r-A . That is a legal church which is established by law . Q . Is every true church a pure church ?•—A . No : a church may be a true churchy yet it is not a pure church , if it acknowledge any doctrines and ordinances which are contrary to the Scriptures . Q . Ts every true church a legal church ?•—No : a church may be a true church , and yet it is not a leg ; al church , if it be not established by law , Q . Is every legaT church a true church ?•—No : a church may be established by law , and so be a legal church 3 but if the word of God is pot preached in it , and the sacraments are not duly administered bj ~ persons rightly ordained , it is riot-a true church . ' * When you and your readers , Sir , have recovered from your astonishment , I will put the Bishop's catechetical doctrine ^ as
far as I can guess at its meaning , into plain propositions , reparking only that it is ' * strange doctrine ; " «• though' * ( if in consistency with my former acknowledgment of the author being a scholar , I may apply to him the caustic language applied by the writer from whom I have borrowed the motto of
this letter , to a similar Episcopal reasoner of his own time ) , ? ' nothing is strange from such a bishop , who has just learning enough to make his want of sense only the more conspicuous . * 1 . A true church of Christ may acknowledge doctrines and ordinances contrary to the Scriptures . If the more unscriprural and antichristian doctrines and ordinances there are an a church , the truer it is ( though the author has not said this ) , then the church of England may be proved to be ( as it was gratefully denominated by a merry dean as he swept into his hands a heap of gold which had been paid down before him by some unlucky delinquents ^ who had been cited into a spiritual COUrt ) , ' QN £ OF THE BEST CONSTITUTED CHURCHES IN THE WORLP .
2 . A true church may be accounted and treated as illegal , and , consequently , it is possible that the members of such 3 church may , in certain states , be put under disqualifications , and subjected to penalties for being true Christians . Thank CJo ( J , Sir , that you and I do not belong to any one of thqsg
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G 36 Bp . Burgess ' s Principles"
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 636, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/20/
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