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    ** vanquish and overcome , " against whom the Church must ever pray the Almighty to " assuage their malice " and " confound their devices / 1 The Royal Martyr and the Restoration of the blessed race are idle tales in America- Their annual forms are two 5 for € t the fourth day of July , " the sera of Independence * and ** for the fruils of the earth , to be used on the first Thursday in November / - ' In the preface to this book the compilers say , "that most of the amendments or

    alterations which had the sanction of the great , divines in l 689 » have been adopted , with such others as are thought reasonable and expedient ;" having probably some reference to the " Free and Candid Disquisitions . "

    Such is a rapid sketch of the American Liturgy . This book attracted the attention of Mr . Lindsey , who gave a short account of it in his Vin ~ diciee Priestleiance , 1788 , pp . 20—22 . From him I farther learn , ( pp . < 23 — 26 , ) that an address was sent from this Convention at Philadelphia in 1785 , requesting " the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England to confer the episcopal character" on such persons as the Conventions in the different States should recommend .

    In June 1786 was read to a Convention in Philadelphia , the reply of the English prelates , who demur lest they should contribute to establish " an ecclesiastical system , which will be called a branch of the Church of England , " though essentially different € t either in doctrine or in discipline . " These prelates had not then seen the American book , which , on its arrival , was " taken into consideration at a meeting of the archbishops and fifteen of the bishops . " These , besides complaining of verbal alterations , " saw with grief two confessions , respectable for their antiquity , entirely laid aside : and in that called the Apostles * Creed an article omitted , which was inserted with a view to a particular heresy , in a very early age of the Church , and has since had the venerable sanction of universal

    reception . " The prelates then " earnestly exhort" the American Episcopalians to " restore to its integrity the Apostles * Creed , " and " to give to the other two creeds a place" in the book , * ' even though the use of them should be left discretional , " Mr . Lindsey , who

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    quoted " the journals of the different Conventions , printed at Philadel phia adds : "It was unanimously agreed to comply with the desire of the English bishops , by re-admitting the Nicene Creed , but at the option of the minister to read that or the A postles ' Creed . The restoration , however , of the creed of Athanasius , so called , was unanimously negatived by three of

    the States , and by a majority of the other two . But Christ ' s descent into hell was again adopted * and received into the Apostles' Creed , though not without some negative voices . *

    On this occasion Mr . Lindsey recollects , to the disadvantage of these " archbishops and fifteen bishops / 1 the former Tillotsons , Patricks , Bu r * nets , Tennisons * Yet these , after all , though they would have reformed Babttlon , had not the virtue to come

    out of her . Nor can more be said for his Hoadly , Blackburne * Law , " those lights concerning the equal rights of men , and the jncompetency of human authority in the things of religion . ' * These the luminous Christian integrity of Lindsey casts into shade ; if his . disinterestedness does not class them ,

    by contrast , with those who " loved the present world- " Thirty years have now elapsed since the American Episcopalians deferred to the episcopal advices from

    Lambeth . They have long had in their own power the maintenance of their supposed apostolical succession * One of your American Correspondents can , perhaps , say whether they have re-reformed their Book of Common Prayer . ANGLUS .

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    408 Cappe ' s Memoirs *

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    Lawrence Pountney Lane , Sir , June \ * 1819-PERMIT me to invite your attention to the circumstance of Mr . Cappe ' s Memoirs being prefixed to u the Critical Remarks , " &c ,

    published by Mr . Cappemany years ago . I make no doubt but you will unite in the regret that they have not been published separately , or along with tliose other works of this amiable and eminent man , which have necessarily had a much greater circulation .

    An acquaintance with the life and pursuits of Mr . Cappe , I am sure you will agree with me , can never be too much diffused , and I take the liberty

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/8/