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j ^ ^ wfDpaly recpmmen <|^ ( M . Kep . for July ) , nam&y , the adoprion of one common littirgy by all Unitarian Soeietfes . * 1 , One gr ^ at end proposed by tils pl % P > CC t ^^^ ^ o le body might be , at fe same instant , speaking to the Father of Mercies the same words , can never be
attained , unless the public service could be performed in all Unitarian Societies at precisely the same time ; &which , neither the convenience of different societies , uor the unavoidable variations in our public time-keepers , will
permit . . . 2 . It . ft hy no means certain , that % 11 Unitarian Societies would conseiit to use any printed forms of prayer .. There are many ^ Sis senters , who , though adopting the Unitarian systetjjf yet have aji invincible prejudice against a
liturgy ; so that an attempt to introduce one would porbably occasion the division , and the ruin of many congregations . ,-3 . Supposing that all 9 / them
were veiling to imije in the use of a liturgy , still it is feared that ® , Ijbook , containing only two or three ^ services , would really be injurious to true devotion . Does not
experience sh $ w that a variety ( at least , to a certain extend ) in the us&of printed fornis § i §\ afrsolutely necessary to keep up the a £ | ention ? Ill what religious society , in which ofi £ and the same form is
constantly used from Lord ' s-day io Lord ' s- dte ^ . is there the Smaft ^ st appearai ^ of devotion ? Arid , granting that * ' a j&bjic liturgy
wojjjd very much W facilitate the P J ^ g ^ tJon of y tiitariai ^ se u ^| . ^ ill ai ^ S ^^ ^ £ ^ scri ^ ple ? mVpy * d joirjv in our wxrp wip wha Are * mache < $ JL to furroAf
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pmyfjt ;* ' yet , would not tfos >? nd of i % f > e sufficiently answered , if at * the same time the ^"^ ervice * book contained such a ft umber of foffigs as that na on 6 need be often tp&j peated ? i
4 . Is ^ ie established tifurgy b y * any means eligible in the vie ^¦ ? proposed ? Is there not a wan ^ of method , and of proportion be ^ i tween its several pafts , which the * labours even of the late . excellent *"
and venerable Mr . Lindsey have not remedied ? And if reference , be made to apy of the servfees * * for ~ the use * 01 dissenters ^ whiclMi have been compiled from the es- » tablished liturgy ; will At not fc || j *
evidently seen , that the authpfii of these compilations have labour * ed under ' great perplexity and embarrassment , owing to the , very great scarcity of the materials they could collect from this . source ?
and that " such compiled services are not in any respect compara- *' ble to those which have been composed by Dissenters themselves ? . If ' JWifiitivus will attentively peruse a volume of forms forptib * - Jic worship , originally collected in the est of
by a ^ ijfunister W Eng-. ^ land , and sijice reprinted ( w , ^ b some judicious alterations ) for the use of an * Unitarian Society at Mansfield , he will perhaps see reason to acknowledge tbe justice
of these queries . To Jtbe iirst eight services contained in thafcr volume , there might easily be sub- « joined , from the devotional compQ- . sitions of D ? . Iceland , Dr . Priestley , .
Mr . Seouga ^ Jpr . Harrison , Mr * Holland andx ^' eF&fwitli . the additiori of some , sacjjplferital services , and a few baptismal and funeral ftd ^ ic ^)^~ . i \ um ) ber sufficient to preve ^ i ! fh ^^ sfirger tberar itoight
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Objections to m Vn it&rian Ltiuvgpl ^ . 8 ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/17/
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