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    t& ^ tWiitmisV consideration *^ I w # tfId particularly urge tBii ^ f , afc sh ould appear by his letter , he vAMes to make a liturgy the bond © f union among us , which would - of course in that case act as a Jdnd of test / and be the means of

    separating all those from us who ^ e ltan objection to it . pf > I come now to another part of Jus letter , on w&jch , though I Ihaye already trespassed too much upon you , I must beg permission

    to make an observation . He asks ** whether it is not very desirable that we should at last be incorporated by common consent into «^ h urch V *—If , by this , he means % \ ich an union ambng our

    societies as would produce conferences , -friendly associations , correspondences ^ quarterly meetings both of thef ^ iniste rs and- the lai ty , there could be no objection , and

    I most sincerely wish that things of this nature obtained more among its ; and all this might be done without a liturgy , jusjLas well as with one ;—but , if bjfWisi incorporation he means the introduction of a form of

    church-government , which by the creation Wt -Jfes h offices and functions amollgst us , would cjestr ^ y the pre - sent ^ simplicity of < $ if * dhurches , and give &n opportunity for the ambitious to aim at authority over us ,. * I must most solemnly enter xny protect against it . It would strike at the very root and prin-

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    ciples ctf o ^ Lr dissen t , ift ^ S w dfil ^ prove the injfi ^ dfuTdtkln bf infinite mischief * ^ mulatioiis , stHfes , jeai 4 , busies , rivalships wx > uld creep inf and we shou ^ ^> enence all the bad effects of a h ^ archy , without any of its solid advantages . We

    want no Presbyterian bishops ,, we need not these changes , to loosen and disunite us ; for 1 am fearful we are already travelling the road to conformity both to the church and to the world much too

    fast , and rather need to be recall , ed to some of those good , oldfashioned principles for which our forefathers suffered so much . Let us then rather seek to distinguish ourselves by a recurrence to these

    soun ^ though slighted principles , by V * ftyeating from dissipation , frivolity and folly , and endeavouring to keep oursehses rn o ^ e * unspotted from the world . " This

    would serve as our ** avant courier" ten thousand times better than ^ a liturgy . " Our cause " wqpld then ^ have something pal - pawle in it J ^ its forni * inight then be recognized , and would be adU tqAbd by all - who chose ro con .

    template it . I have to ask pardon of your « self , ^ in ^ tivus , and of your readers , foi tikiiig up so much of your time , andnremain , sir , with much esteem , a : young man , bijt . .. an -i ; ' " ¦ ' Old-fashioned Dissenter ^ * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page 546, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/16/