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register , in virhich I found it regularly entered . I hope Mr . Browne will not be offended at the additionaJ publicity whicfi , without asking his leave , I think it expedient to give to this , I believe , singular feet . It is a matter of curiosity to Unitarians at least , if not of deeper interest to them as well as other Christians .
Several questions will naturally arise from the facts , and your ingenious Correspondents will suggest some , no doubt , in succeeding Numbers . I will mention but one more . « Are bishops and clergymen at liberty to fly in the face of ( not the BibJe , for of that they have always made what use their notions and
interests call for , but may they safely controvert ) Acts of Parliament £ ' * I beg pardon for occupying ( if you allow me , indeed , to occupy ) so large a space in your columns , and respectfully subscribe . mvsel £ J . READ .
P . S . Since writing the above I have seen your Number for May , and in Mr . Wilks's admirable speech therein reported , I find [ p . 335 ] that some clergymen have refused to marry Dissenters , unless they would previously submit to what they called * ' the baptism of regeneration . ' This
fact may perhaps sufficiently explain the passive submission of a young person $ ager to change her surname * but will mot justify ( as I suppose ) the Gloucester clergy in imposing a new Christian natne , or repeating the old one in tlieir " Form of Baptism for such as are of riper years /'
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&c . Held in Philadelphia , 1785 . " Reprinted , London , 1789- la this book , which was shortly described in one of your early volumes , [ II . 64 7 *] not only the Athanasian , and the j ?^ &-cene Creeds are omitted , but also ihe descent into hell , in the Creed called
TheApostles \ The Articles of Religion are reduced to twenty ; into the first of which ar $ condensed the first , second , fourth and fifth of the Thirtynine . There is an article *< t > f Original Sin > " in which there is no account how " the Pelagians do vainly talk , "
nor any Greek , and the nonsense of birth-sin has not been -exported * Article thirteen , "Of the Chupch and its Authority , " comprehends nineteen , twenty and twenty-one of the Thirtynine . The " authority in
controversies of faith' is omitted , and it i $ declared , harmlessly enough , that " every Church hath power to ordain , change and abolish rites and ceremonies , for the more decent order and good government thereof : so that ail things be done to edifying . "
There " is a form of Solemnization of Matrimony , ' reserving what ^ regards the civil contract between the parties to the laws in every state /* This form is short , the devotional part grossly Trinitarian , and thus unJike those at Geneva and Chareriton , ( see p . 3577 ) but all the other grossness in
our marriage form is omitted . In the " Visitation of the Sick , " I cannot find any claim or exercise of power to absolve the , penitent . In " the Order of the Burial of the Dead , " instead of expressing a sure and cwtain hope of a glorious resurrection * as to every dead person , of whatever character , the attendants are described
as ** looking for the general resurrection in the last day , and the life of the world to come , through our Lord Jesus Christ . " In the " Morning Prayer , after the Litany , in which Jesus Christ is invoked with all the gross language
of the Mother-church , the Congress is recommended to the Divine protection without any adulatory epithets , while for ** all nations ' * ante implored 4 t unity , peace and concord . * ' The Episcopal Church in America has no king to flatter with the unconstitutional declaration that God is " the only ruler of princes ; " nor a magistrate who has always enemies to
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Ameruan Episcopal Liturgy * 40 f
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Sir , July 6 , 1819 . THE letter signed R . F . [ p . 244 , ] was read by me with peculiar interest . The writer , who was occasionally your Correspondent , is one with whom I have passed many
pleasant , social hours in England , and cannot now expect ever to renew those intercourses in the present world . The alterations in the Episcopal Liturgy , as adopted in America , which R . F . has omitted to particularize , I can explain from publications now before me .
One is , «• The Book of Common 1 rayer , &c . as revised and proposed jo the Use of the Protestant Episcopal ^ Ji urch , at a Convention of the raid < -huirch in the States of N * w York ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/7/
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