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if he thought their tendency immoraL The latter , undoubtedl y , as well as the former , thinks the
interests of holiness consistent with his creed and alt his proceedings in religion : and I am very far # Fom questioning the piety of either serious Catholics or Calvinists . I
tmrvk if your correspondents will candidly re-peruse my paper , they may perceive that I argued with n * y travelling companion simpl y on his own ground ; and that whstt I said was to the purpose , in
talking wUh him , appeared from his making no further reply . I meant » et to apply what I said , to the whole body of Calvinists , many of whom I very highly esteem , but
Ofily to those who reason as he did : and knowing that many persons object to the emancipation of the Catholics , on the same ground , I thought it mi ght not be useless to send an account of the
coiwersaOon to your vahiaWe Repository . OLD CORRESPONDENT .
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Theological Qyeries . Sir , June SO 1812 . As it is a part of yo-ur plan to promote theological' disquisition , $ have sent you the following que- * ries : perhaps some of your
learned correspondents wi l * have the goodness to soj've them , ft not doing an ^ l permitting , when predicated of an omnipotent and oraimGJent Being , precisely the same
thing ? Are no * alt events the effecm ® $ his immediate operation ? Does not God , in- the word * of the pcapbet , " form light and create darkness , make peace and create evtfctf * Is not tJMs the doctrine of the Ctiupch of England , as coti * tfftifttaflNii bee articles and Liturgy ?^
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for not to multi p l y quotations , I shall only mention the Collect for the ° th Sunday after Trinity , —
•* Grant , O Lord , the assistance of thy holy spirit , that we always think and do what is rightful , &c . " If these things a « re so what is become of free agency ? An Inquirer lifter Truth .
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On Reading the Scriptures in Public Worship . Sir , July 2 , 1812 . It has long been my wish , and , in some measure , my hope , that some person better qualified than myself to occupy your pages
would call your attention and that of your readers to a matter which appears to me to be worthy of it in a very important degree : I mean the custom which prevails in
some , perhaps in most , Unitarian Chapels , of occasionally , and not unfrcquentry omitting the reading of the Scriptures : a custom , which , doubtless , has very much contributed to the notion
entertained by many orthod ' ox Chri s * tian , s , that tjnitarians do not believe hi , or that they li g htl y es * teem the scriptures . In combating this notion , very lately , in a very serious person , I was on the point of adducing the argument of
the public reading of them as arj essential part of Unitarian worship ¦•• when I checked myself on refecting how possible it was for that person to have occasionally attended at some chapers which I 1 . ¦ . * * i . i . * i . i
have attended at , without hearing any more of the scriptures than the text ; although on the same occasion much time has been occup ied in a long desultory extempore prayer ^ chiefly composed of detached and trite repetitions whic {* might well have been spared , wtfr
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4 A& On Reading the Scriptures in Public Worship .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/38/
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