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crowd it . He was well attended , considering that no public notice was given of the intended service . There were about ten coaches at
the door ; which I was glad of , because it gave a degree of respectableness to the congregation , in th $ eyes of the people living thereabouts . Of those that I knew and remember
were Lord Despenser , Dr . Franklin , Dr Priestley , Dr . Calder , Mr . Shore , jun . Mrs . Shore , Mrs . Robert Milnes , Miss Milnes , and Miss Shore ; Dr . Hinckley , Dr . Chambers , Dr . Primatt , and two or three other clergy . men , with a few barristers whom
you do not know . All the rest were to all appearance persons of condition , and in the whole were , I think , near two hundred , and mostly of the Establishment . We were all pleased with the service and with his manner of performing
it . Mis sermon , which I thought very good , will be printed , and you wiJl of course see it . I begin to conceive hopes that his scheme will be patronized , so far at least as to
produce him a comfortable subsistence . Indeed , I hope it will teach those "who ought not to have needed such teachings , that reformation is both a safe and an easy work . " ( p . 111 . )
Consistently with his design of gathering an Unitarian society out the dissatisfied members of the Established Church , Mr . Lindsey departed no further from the mode of the national worship than was required by the great principle on
which he separated from it . He therefore published A Reformed lAturgyy on the plan of Dr . Clarke ' s , which he used from the beginning , and which , with
alter--ations and improvements , is still in use at Essex-street Chapel . He also retained the clerical 4 re $ s , with the exception of the surplice , concerning which he says in a letter to Dr ; Jebb . " I should have
blwhe& to have appeared tn a white garment * " although we do
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not clearly see why he should have been less ashamed of a black gown than of a white one : both appear to us to be at least
unnecessary , and not quite consistent with the manly simplicity which is the proper distinction and the true ornament of seceders upon principle from the national establishment * But we are aware
that there may be prejudices against , as well as in favour of priestly vestments , and at thistime of day these are not just ob . jects of controversy On the one side it will be admitted that
habiliments do not dignify the preach * er , as it will on the other that the preacher may dignify his habilu merits . On the recommendation of his attentive and judicious
friend , Mr . Turner , of Wakefield , a prayer was introduced by Mr . Lindsey , both before and after sermon ; the latter bearing a reference to the subject of discourse . We allude to this custom of Mr .
Lindsey , in order toexpress our opinion of the Prayers appended to his Sermons , lately published , which have the pertinence and solemnity and simplicity , together with the veinofpious feeling running through
them , which-so eminently characterize the latter portions of the national liturgy * The sermon at the opening was published , with an Appendix , containing an account
of the Reformed Liturgy : of the Sermon , five hundred copies were disposed of in four ^ days , and of the Liturgy seven hundred copies were sold in six
weeks-In the Sermon , the preacher entered of necessity into jft vindication of the Unitarian faith , but he somewhat strangely promised that he would do so m the pulpit uo more : on this subject , however *
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340 Review . —Be / sham ' s Memoirs of Lindsey .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/56/
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