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the walls of the chapel 1 allpde to , or serve there apy further purpose " than -that of ornament ? whether they continue to ' he recited in the administxa ^ op of the Lord ' s Supper at Elssex Street ; as also , whether they form part of the religious service qf other
Unitarian congregations , I have not the means of knowing ; but you will perhaps permit me to state how unfitly , it appears to me , commandments fouaded on
Jewish history , and in some pafticu * lars wholly inapplicable to the Christian dispensation , are enforc * ed as md ^ al laws on the attention of a Christian people . Nothing iis clfearer , in my view , than that thd New Testament neither com
mands nor sanctions Sabbatic observances , properly so called , and I believe Unitarians in geneVal entertain the same persti&siori ; ISUi how incongruous wbiild be the tfrcuihstahces of a minister ' s
preaching against Sabbatiiing notions , khd his people at the same time reading th « fourth cfii ^ inand - ment as a standing ordinance of tjieir house of worship , or
jpresently hearing it from his lips as a preparation for Ghristian communion ! There arc other objec - tions \ o Christians using the Ten Commandments , but this is sufficient to explode the practice .
The policy is very doubtful of inscribing a place of worship with £ hy characters whatever ; they a ) mu £ e stratig ^ rs arid divert childifcit ; but they can scarcely edify
men of sen ^ e and soon become tod familiar to make iatiy impression : bt ( £ if <^ ur Wal ts ^ tid pillars and pulpits must be pictur&d ^ it Avould surely be more consistent to inscribe upon them Christian sentimejnib aad texts . You have fur-.
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nished us with san instance of suitable j ^ cri paon on an u ^ nan ^ pulpit , { vol . v . 2 ps ] . ^ 3 of a gallery , in a counttf tte ? ing . house , written over in \^ letters with passages from the New Testament , descri ptive of the natu ^ and design of CbrkL
unity . This is not an useless ex ' pedient in places where there are extempore preachers of bad mem ory : though it may be seriously " incLuired whether , for any oth / r purpose ? t be riot needless / and
Whether it be not besides incon . sisteht wifhgbod taste and sober Chrisiian feelmg ? - Yotihiav ^ Hi therto indulg ^ dme with so inuch ; freedom that I sib .
mit tihe&t fiLtrietures to your ( in . sideratloQ . ^ itihibut applogjr . V ? O ^ OeLASTES .
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2 ) r ? Jpoiulthiii ' s Account tf Mr . Stepkthsj % * the magnanimous V&rtsliVriesi * ! Birmingham * Oct . 5 , l 8 il . ¦ ¦ ¦
\ ' Sfat , - . ' " ; . ¦ ' . , While tK ^ subjefct is fresh on my inihd , J tak * tip nvy pen to riiec ^ t the wishes antf enquiries of
your cbryespbndfeht Populauis , in ^ our Mrs £ 0 SLny ^ or the last month , p . 5 ^ 7 . ' Mr . Ste ^ hens for so tk nirae was spelt by himseff , the magnanimous Parish Priest / ' was son of Richard Stephens of
Worcester , became a fiatlei or Seroi Com . of S . Edmund Hall , Oxford , June , 1663 , aged 14 years ; pro . eeeded in Arts , and vfte preacher for some time at Laurence Hmxsey near Oxford , where by M , f ™* lous endeavours he caused w tower to be rebuilt by his p arisWoners . He was also lecturer o Carfax in Oxford ; after ***
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656 J ) ri : Toulmin ' s Account of Mr . Stephens .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page 656, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/16/
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