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    and miscellaneous work ; and though the scriptures are read with it they must be explained by it . The bible is no further inspired and infallible than as it agrees with the creeds and prayers , collects and hymns of this Protestant missal .

    For this reason , we think the practice of the clergy in choosing versicles of the scriptures as the grounds of their official discourses is an unnecessary hardship ; it would be a less circuitous route to make the book of common prayer their avowed textbook . It contains the ecclesiastical constitution of the country , and therefore ought to be wellstudied and fully explained by

    ecclesiastics . We have already a considerable number of volumes of Discourses On the Contents of the Prayer-Book . The present author is more Calvinistic than his predecessors . He may be said indeed to have evangelised Comber , Hole and Wheat ley ; to have t 4 done them" into Calvinism . He is ,

    however , laudably modest and charitable ; and a pleasing air of piety accompanies the lectures which his evangelical peculiarities are not able to repress . Mediaplays no great share of theological learning but he falls into no errors , like that for instance of # certain dignitary of the Church of England , whose hand , aorue volume is now lying before us , who , quoting the Nictne Curd , introduces the quotation with " as Saint Nicene in // w creed ftaa it */'

    • Vide Lectures on that part of the h Catechism commonly called the > * * Creed , preached in £ > t . John

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    In perusing these and similar Lectures we arc amused with the frequent arguments which their authors find in their way of the excellence and apostolic nature of the Church of England . They seem never to call to mind that of the many praise-worthy doc * trines and rites which she pos *

    sesacs , some are common to all Christian Churches , and there - fore , are no particular honour to her ; and others are peculiar to herself and the Clmrcfi of Rome , a circumstance not the most flattering one should think , to the noisy criers ( as many of the clergy are ) of Ko P < pery—We are inclined to smile also at the laborious endeavours of these Lecturers on the Liturgy to draw out of every sentence

    of the Prayer-book ^ some weighty thought and fundamental opinion , to make common places important , and to force tautologies to speak a varied meaning . Where the whole is pure gold , the minutest particle must be intrinsically precious . There are many arcana of theology in the prayer which supplicates of God to send down the spirit" of his grace upoa 4 w all bishops and curates * ' because " he alone worketh great marvels , " and in that which implores him " to give peace in our time because he only fighteth for us . "

    the Evangelist . Westminster , ( pursuant to the will of Dr . Buby . ) By Thoniaa Bennett , of Trinity College , Cambridge , and Lecturer of St . John the Evangelist , Westminster , D . D . minor Canon <* F St . Paul ' s Cathedral and of Westminster Abbey , Rector of High JEastor and Good Eastor in the county of Essex , Preacher at Highgate Chapel , Chaplain to the Cold-streum Regt . of Guards . Reader at Whitehall , &c . &c . &c > Lecture x . p . p .

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    430 RogersY Lectures on the Liturgy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/34/