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| rt ^«* tJip *^* ' things' acfdatiiZ pgto $ & ^^ p&Uci pri nV-i p l ^ oi ^ mte 9 emW ^ 0 l \ not My Kpoii man tnore tban is right . T
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A CHVECHMAU ' S REASONS FOR BEING A CHURCH M A ! $ / ' . ' .,
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5 Td tf // e Editor of the Monthly Repository . t i ¦ .-: : i i . i - % i
, Ocf . 3 , 1809 . StR , . Atf'many of your friends have expressed an opinion that I am not justly entitled to the character of a churchman , I presume to offer
you my reasons for a contrary opinion ; believing that they are not the reasons of an insignificant individual alone , but of thousands who attend the public worship of the church of England .
It is but too common for dissenters to charge all who conform to the church , with disingenuous motives . They are so bigoted to their own opinions , as to conceive
Jt to be impossible for any thinking man , to worship by the nati - onal forms , unless drawn to it by interest or fashion . It may be true , that those who hold or
expect civil offices , have an inducement , as-a qualification for such offices , to'Conform to the church , and thu s nft&ke th 6 outward forms of fbligidn subservient to their
tertjkjfei tttereSt . This , however , doc * £ fid 1 ?> ppfy to'me and tfiere are * febir iattdte to whom it does not appiy ^;^ h ^ We men of the proifouM ^ fhdtiiht , who yet attend the ^ &fifc&afl Wbrship . To suppose t
he * $ orit&r ^ ' itrgucs a mlitd of th (* WrtoW < 4 ft cast . Indeed , witli the ^ leexce ^ tibh of Official bias , fveiy ^ wiSliSfer' - 't « fny * bia ; wfeo wish ^ t irf iqfrkd fcWgio ^ pretensiJ ^ iHKM ^ Si ^^^ ihfer ^ ti ^ % midb ) dln ^ fte df \ We gecte ; for it is easy to obtain dis .
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tinction in small societies ; and t |) e zeal of the sectaries will incline them to encourage and supppjt their adherents ^ In the vas t qqr % ^ ^
mtinity of the established cb * ireb , no one can expect to find patrafr ^ age , on account of his ob $ ^ nr dj& of her rites ; his conformity £ 9 th ^ m cannot , therefore ^ favour his se * . cular interest . One of the ricJ ^^ st
merchants which the city q { London ever boasted , and who tia 4 been the artificer of his own ? foj > tune , being asked one day by a friend for his advic ^ hovp j % might best forward his secular nw
terest ^ asked the inq \ ii ^ er wjier ^ he spfent his Sundays . I > gp * paicl the inquirer , to thecjiurch , ^ Why # said the merchant , I never ^ oulcl make any friends there / but I 4 jay $ met in the meeting-house ipy be $ t patrons and protectory will . ypu
go with me ? No , sa | d . | he' i \ i ^ quirer , I will not sacrifice my , re ~ ligion for gain . , . ;•; Bat it may be said , if yoii ^ bc ^ not a conformist to the ch ^^ qh ; fQr
the purpose of secular aflv % i ^ ta g ^ you are so from fashion . ( Tot this charge I plead pot gfiiXty v fd § O 4 n I am nothing frprri fa ^ h ^ jo ^ , ; ^> consideration has ^ lo . M ^ ijghjtr ^ ^ lht
me in even the $ i |> all ^ t ^ ni ) 8 Wll 4 s The opinions bjr . jtJae mjjj ^ pd ^;^ . such X never TfiSR ^ fe / tfrR |^» si ^ tftey aj ; e ncv ^ r . j r ^^ c ^ bl ^ , &t > , s ?^^; WW # ^ fiP # ^ ^ atnh ! ^ ° * & j ^ ? km \ &irite **> Cannot oe influenced by the cuis - toms of the world . He who adopts
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Thus far tnp conversanon was carried on , and ^ he p ^ irdes- ^ qp ^ - ;>^ 3 ^;( fren ^; t ^ pS retained his iorrrrer opinion ^ 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 601, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/15/
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