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&empore speakers , who were fear-Sut of having forgotten something important and therefore called to their aid a summary of praying got by rote ; or , it might be taken up by such as imagined that the words of our Lord would operate as a charm in heaven ; or it might grow up from a desire of avoiding Trinitariau Doxologies , which by this form of conclusion were quietly and unsuspiciously dispensed with .
There is one custom amongst ihe Presbyterians which has alwavs appeared to me peculiarly offensive ta the spirit of Christian prayer ;—after you have had in what is properly called the long prayer , every topic of praise and confession and supplication , the minister concludes with the Lord ' s Prayer ! which does not perhaps contain a thought or a wish that lias not been before exhauster ] , but which omits some things that every Christian would introduce into his devotions . This practice is certainly not adopted to avoid repetition , but originated , perhaps , with
ex-However this be , the custom is , 1 must think , very unwise , unedi . tying and repulsive to the genius ^ Christianity ; I should be glad , tarefore , to accelerate its abolition . EIKON . OCLASTES .
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Q uestion to Unitarian Mission , aries . Paternoster Row , Sir , Aug . 9 , 1811 . P rofessing Christians of all de . ^ nations hope for final salvajj trough the mercy of God , ut their views of obtaining it arc
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Definition of a " Hercticke . ' * Sir , Aiig . Q , 1811 . The following remarkably civi ! definition of a heretic , for the time when it was written , I copy from an 18 mo . vol . dated 1639 and entitled " The English
Dictionarie , or an Interpreter of hard English words . 6 th ed . By H . C . Gent /' " Hereticke , he which maik - eth choyse of himself , what points of religion he Will beleeve and what he will not /'
I should have guessed H . C . to have been some heretic , if he had not just before defined " Here * ticall . In a false beleefe , obsti - nate / ' He could not , however , have been any very zealous
Episcopalian or Puritan , to have suffered the heretics to escape so easily . From his dedication to the Earle of Corke , it appears that the author ' s name was Henry Cocker am . BEREUS .
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Unitarian Missionaries . —A " Hereticke" 543
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various . It will be very satisfactory to myself , and others of youi readers , with whom I liave con - versed , to have the question ( usually put by persons who have been taught and profess to bei lieve in the creeds of the established Churches of England and Scotland , ) put to the Missionaries of the Unitarian Society ; . — If you take away the doctrine of the atonement , tell me what you substitute in its stead ?" If any of the missionaries will give the most concise and usual reply , it will oblige A NON-CON . OF THE OLD SCHOOL .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 543, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/31/
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