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grapes had this year been of inferior quality / and somewhat less abundant than usual . To this circumstance he alluded in the concluding part of his discourse , where he observed , tf la years in which your crops are less abunr dant and productive , you have still sufficient reason to bless God for giving you more than you deserve ; you are also bound to call in mind the
abundance of former yeans , ' when your store-houses overflowed ; and even in a total failure of your hopes of earthly good things , your warmest praises are due to your Heavenly Father for him whom he sent into the world to proclaim the pardon of sin , om Lord Jesus Christ , who died for us , leaving us ^ d example that we should follow his steps . " The service concluded with intercessory prayers ^ and , last of all , the reciting of " the Apostles * Creed , " which may be considered as the creed of the Waldenses .
On what ground the Waldensian Church has been so generally repre ^ seated as resembling tjie Established Church of England I cannot imagine . I had been only five days amongst them when I had discovered the following points of difference , most of them of essential importance . 1 . It is obvious to remark , that the Vaudois Church is not in subjection to any civil power except against its consent , 2 . They have no hierarchy of archbishops , bishops , priests , &c . So much for the constitution of the two churches . 3 . They have no uniform ritual , or Book of Common Prayer for public
worship , or the administration of ceremonies , the Liturgy of Geneva being employed in some churches , those of Basle , Lausanne and Neuchatel in others . 4 . They use none of the forms and ceremonies and dresses which peculiarly characterize the Church of England ; they do not use the cross as any thing sacred , either in the forms of their temples or in the baptism of infants ; they dp not bow when the name of Jesus is mentioned ; they have no attars , and receive the Lord ' s Supper in a sitting posture . Such is the difference between the two churches in ritual . 5 . The Vaudois have in
their worship no distinctive creed , in the usual acceptation of the term . They content themselves with that of " the Apostles , " which is in general use in the / Church of England and in other Christian churches , but in them is united with the distinctive form of belief of each separate church . Whereas the Vaudois employ only this very ancient symbol , which contains none of those metaphysical distinctions , and dogmatical assertions of disputable propositions , and damnation of heretics , which go to the making up of what is called a creed . 6 . The Vaudois address all their public worship to the Father alone . So much for their difference in doctrine .
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ToXhe Editor . Sm , Jn a private letter received from a valued correspondent respecting my communication on the Hebrew VoweJLpoints , in your Number for February
last , ( p . 81 , ) whilst he expresses himself favourable to the view I have taken of the subject , he wonders at my speaking with hesitation , of r ? being , a vowel , and Mill luoue at ray . omitting # . This last , he says , by its place in the alphabet ; by Qrjgen ' s haying constantly expressed it by a vowel ; and by the want of a vawel o in the language , ^ s well as by many words , derived from the Hebrew , in which this letter is represented by o or somesimilar
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41 & On the Hebrew Vowels .
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ON THE HEBREW VOWELS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/26/
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