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Dr . Gas kin ' s Sermon on the Liturgy * 101
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children with considerable earnestness . He has an original remark , in p , 10 , which we shall quote , as it may suffice to infuse into Unitarian Christians , who content ! so zealously for the unrivalled supremacy of Almighty God , a more than ordinary degree of loyalty .
< l Christian morality is the true basis on which all beneficial government must rest ; and is most peculiarly the strength and permanence of that excellent form of polity , with which the people of this kingdom are blessed : -where from the union of Church and State , God may be truly said to be , all in all , "
The Bishop ( Dr . Fisher ) is tutor of the Princess Charlotte ^ and we may hope , judging from the following passage , that he will prepare her to be should she
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ever ascend the British throne ,, a steady supporter , ( like the last Queen who held the reins of go * vernment in England , < 4 good Queen Ann , of pious memory , " ) of the church as by law established , and a determined enemy pf heresy and schism .
" Indeed , the awful state of our country , in these tremendous tinges , requires * even upon inferior motives , our most zealous guardianship of these institutions , where truth is taught unmixed with error ; where the pure doctrines of our most primitive - and apostolical , Church , are inculcated with unremitting diligence ; and where these poor innocent children are separated and preserved from those mischievous receptacles of fanaticism , disloyalty , and dissent which have of late been too / oner and to * precipitately encouraged ; and , to the ten ^ dency of which , the eyes of the discerning part of the community are timely opened . " P . 8 .
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Art . VII . —The English Liturgy , a" Form of Sound Words . " A Sermon , delivered in the Parish Churches of St . Bene t Grace-Church , St . Mary , Stoke Newington , and St . Mary , Islington . By George Gaskijkt , D . D . 8 vo . pp . 25 . Is . Rivingtons . 1806 .
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We pity such of the beneficcd clergy as believe the church to be in danger ; among whom is the u Rector of St . Bene't Gracechurch , and of Stoke Newington ; and Lecturer of Islington . " We shall not , therefore ^ criticise severely this attempt—zealous if not wise—to preserve the sacred vessel of the church from shipwreck , in these times ( as Dr .
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kf . in his rear describes them ) of ecclesiastical anarchy . " Men under the influence of imaginary ter-I'ors , arc less to be censured for the follies they commit , than cominjserated on account of the disordered state of mind in which those follies originate * . Dr . G . ' s text , is 2 Tim . i . K
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Holdfast theformof sound words . The foripm here alluded to , is 5 he supposes , the ancient " formulary or confession of faith , ' required of all persons at baptism . He al * lows that iC there is good reason to think / ' that the creed commonly called the Apostles ' , " not prepared by the Apostolical Col \ vee . r
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The object of the discourse is to s-havv that the English Liturgy is a form of sound words , and ought therefore to be highly prized , and carefully retained , ft is pure and perfect , contains no errors , and omits no truth . It is adequate to the wants of the good people of this country , possible as well as real . Jt cannot be re-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/45/
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