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moved or even altered without alarming detriment to the state , and to u every true son of the
Church of England . " Yet alas ! this perfection , like the beauty of a Chinese belle , is local ; it fades away when taken off consecrated around .
Even this service , ( says , the Dr . ) when performed as an act of public wqrshtp , by persons not in episcopal orders , cr whose place of worship , though called a chapel , has not received the licence or sanction of the Bishop , but is opened in
defiance of his jurisdiction , then ceases to he the service of the Church of England ; and the persons frequenting it , actually become schismatics from the church , and Dissenters of I know not tvhat new description . " ,
Transplantation which * . it seems , deteriorates the delicate plant of the English Liturgy , might possibly improve in the same degree the rough one of Nonconforming
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worship ; and this should abate Dr . Gaskin ' s terror at the prospect of this change . Turn the conventicle into a church ,- ( we do
not prophecy that this will ever be the case ) and it will at once ac « quire all the sanctity and virtueinspiring power which it now wants .
A description is given by the Dr . of the higher clergy of the English Church , which it would be entertaining to compare with the description of Christian teachers in the N . T . ; and we leave our readers to make the coinpa .
nson . " The governors of this society ( the church ) form a kind of aristocracy res * pecting the community at large ; but
each particular governor , in his proper district , is a sort of monarch , exercising his functions , hoth towards the inferior ministers and laity , according to the will of the supreme head of the church . ' *
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lOf Winter ' s Sermon on Future Punishments .
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Art , Vlll . ^ --Future Punishment of Endless Duration . A Sermon preached at the Rev . J . Knight * s Meeting-ho&se Colly ers rents , Sculhiuark ; at a Monthly Association of ^ Ministers and C { lurch es y Dec . 11 , 1806 . By Robert Winter . 8 vo . pp . 35 . Is . 18 O 6 # of
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^ The etern i ty hell torments is go dreadful a doctrine , so apparently subversive of the attributes of the Deity , and so irreconcileable with the spirit and design of the gospel , that it requires an ac . cumulation of strong arguments and just criticisms , to bend down our reason , and stupify our feel - ings into a persuasion and belief of its truth . Such arguments
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and criticisms are not to be found in ihis discourse ^ nor in Dan Taylor ' s sermon , tin which it stems to be built , and therefore it cannot be expected to answer its design ; though by exciting inquiry , it may be the means of bringing sbme pious persons off
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from a tenet , which clothes the parent of the human race with a character which in any one of his creatures would beexccrablc . Let any benevolent person ponder on the following reflection , ( p . 28 . ) and try if he can possibly reconcile his heart to the creed which produced it . It is to Mr . Winter ^
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credit that the idea is not original , but has been advanced fcy almost every preceding Calvinistic writer , and especially by Jonathan Edwards . " Who can imagine , "what purposes of love and mercy n > . ay be accomplished to the niyriads of thp redeemed ^ by be ^ pMing the awful contrast which Vvijl fee exhibited , in the wrctcjied condition
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/46/
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