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of them , but he is to be reckoned only as € C a heathen man / ' or as a mere spectator . On the whole , to me it appears , from the practice of the apostles and the primitive churches , which , with due allowance , ought to be considered as affording a model to modern churches ; from the principle of expediency which I judge is quite in
favour of discipline ; from the good effects that have been actually produced by it , though under an imperfect mode of administration amongst the Quakers , Methodists and other communities in our own country ; there is vahd evidence of the propriety and utility of forming professing Christians into distinct , organized bodies ; of appointing suitable officers for the execution of the several branches of
order and discipline , and for excluding , under proper regulations , vicious and unworthy members . Your correspondent seems to have fallen into the comm ( 5 n error of arguing against a practice from its abuse . I do not see , I own , how the peculiar duties that are incumbent on Christians as brethren of one family , as mem"hers of one body , can possibly be performed without a much closer union than that which is implied in assembling once in the week to hear a preacher , who is not considered in any proper sense , as a pastor , but merely as the man of the day ; and in partaking together once in a quarter , or
in a month * or the . Lord s supper . 1 have no expectation that the primitive doctrines of the gospel will spread , without a revival , in those branches of it that are adapted to all times and states of society , of
the primitive discipline . We may institute book-societies , and support popular preaching , but no body of rational and scriptural Christians will be formed and become permanent , it' not cemented by the order as well as by the faith of the gospel . I am , Sir , Yours , 8 cc . May £ O , 1807 . SABRINA .
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DECISIONS OF COMMON SJSNSE , To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , / I am a plain man , one of those who consider the great , doctrines of Christianity to be plaiq and easy to cpriiprehend ^ and take coinmoA sense fox * my guide in matters of
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Decisions of Common Sense . 41 &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/23/
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