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flax ; on the cpntrary , he , will heal the broken in heart , and bind iip all . their wounds . With these views of the subject , my Christian friends , so far from having any objection or scruple , I have great
p leasure in complying with your request , of joining in this commemorative service , in this more private way . We read that the apostles went breaking bread from house to * house ; and our blessed Lord * the object of our grateful
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository <
JSTorwich ) April 9 y 1810 . SIR , Having in my last Letter examined the authority on which the use of a liturgy is founded , and endeavoured to trace its birth and parentage , I shall now proceed to examine how far the
attempt to supersede the practice of free prayer by the use of a printed form has succeeded . Here let it be understood , that I am not addressing those who have separated from the established
church , because they cannot conscientiously join in its form of prayer . I shall Got now attempt to examine whether their preference for a liturgy be well or ill founded * They may wish to
retain the present form of church government with a mere alteration of the liturgy ; they may not object , as I should , to any establishment , whether Trinitarian , or Unitarian , or to any
assumption of power in matters of religion , whether it be vested in the hands of popes or kings , cardinals or bishops , conclaves or convocations , councils or synods * I
speak as a dissenter to dissenters . The question before us is , how * ar the introduction of a liturgy * nto dissenting congregations has
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remembrance , hath expressly declared , that wherever two or three are gathered together in his name , there he will be in . the midst of them ; that is , that the services of his faithful followers will always be accepted by that benevolent and
gracious Being , who is his Father and our Father , who is his God and our God , however small their ntimber , or private their condition , as if he himself were a party in their worship .
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contributed to improve the spi * rit of true piety in the hearts of those who have used it ; how far it has increased in such societies a love for , and an attention to the devotional part of the service * Can any instance be adduced , which will distinctly and clearly
show th-is to have been the case > where a society , before languid , cold , and inattentive to public and private prayer , has been awakened and aroused to its importance by the use of a liturgy ? Such a proof it is incumbent on
the advocates for a liturgy to bring ; since if a spirit of . zeal and fervent piety , a sincere and constant love of prayer , had dwelt in the hearts both of preachers and hearers previous to the use of a form , such an auxiliary would have been useless and superfluous . But such an instance as this , I believe * will be sought far in vain . About half a century ago , an attempt was made to introduce a
liturgy among the dissenting congregations in Lancashire ; and some few of your readers may remember * ho animosity , the disgust , the divisions , and jealousies , which this ill judged attempt was the means of creating . It ha& >
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The Question of a Liturgy discussed . —Letter 2 J . 185
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THE QUESTION OT A LITURGY DISCUSSED . LETTER IT , w —
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/25/
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