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ultimately uosu £ eessfvil ffttgrnypt to introduce a liturgy among Protestant Dissenters . He preached the first ^ ermon tjiere on ( he fift ^ i of June in that year . It may , however , be xjue&tioned , whether this be an accurate
r ^ pceseiUation the design of that establishment ; which , it is believed , may be more correctly stated to have originated in the desire of some liberal Dissenters ( who had not , on the one hand , any particular dissatisfaction with
> iive mode of worship observed by their own ministers , or , on the ^ oihe ^ r , the objections entertained £ > y their forefathers to a form of public praye ** , provided that it were not imposed ) , to give the many members of the established
< hurch whom they daily heard com plain of the Book of Common Pcayer , but who yet disliked the HHssenters * mode of extemporary j ? rayer , an opportunity of joining
£ & the use of a liturgy that should be free from all abjection . This * vas at least one great object of the scheme of the Liverpool Liturgy , * und of the building of the
• In the composition of this Liturgy , it is thought fey Mr . Nicholson to be &ot eK 3 £ tiy true , a ^ s stated under the 4 u-tid ^ e Godwin ( ISp . 36 of Dr , Ro ^ heraoi ' s pupil ?) I ' M , Hep . v . 428 /] th ^ t he , mr . Seddon and Mr . Holland each
composed . one service , and sent it for correction to , the others ; but that Mr . . Godwin h ^ d the lea , st share in t £ e original composition , Seddon the most in the first and secondhand Holland in ike third . Partial transfers , however , were m * de , to accommodate the length
fqr tj ^ c 4 occasion , and fa / , spmc other rea ^ onsj in which it m believed some of them did not entirely concur witji fchfs rept . Mr , ^ jchirfsba has a sketch - c ^ y ^ a ^ Cj d ] ><( $ ) , with an advertise «< - ment , * tadng tjjjjk'jt if print ^ fQr the learned and ingenious gentlemen for whom it u particularly inUnded , "
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Octagon Chipfe ] , fei ^ t the expz * rience of nearly thirteen years ha * ving proved , that few ^ of these qnalcpntents wi ^ in the pale of the Estahlishment had any inclination to suppart the inmroved scheme
of public worship , ualess it had proceeded from authority , and that the rp ^ jprrty were in fact more attached to the church , corrupt as they acknowledged it , than to unpopular Christian truth , the few original projectors who
were left , after their numbers had been reduced by deaths and removals ( but not by desertions ) feeling themselves no longer
under any particular obligations to support the expence of this additional place of worship , determined to discontinue the use of
the Liturgy , and sold their chapel to a clergyman of the established church , ^ vho is sai d to have been complimented by Bishop Porteus , ( then of Chester ) to whom he applied for a bishop ' s license ( for it was never consecrated ) on bis havincr diminished the number of
conventicles . i *—The ' sermon with which Mr . Clayton concluded the dissenting services at the Octagon , on the 25 th Feb . 177 ^ was published . From John fa . 19—23 , he took occasion to ex-_ ___^^_ J ^—^—^^ W ^
( probably tl ^ e ^ ove three mi n isters , and such frifends as they mi g ht choose to ' circtflalteit among ) " requesting their correction as to general structure , sentinien , ta or l ^ ngnage f . f If it be really true that the bisljop did thus congratulate Mr . Plumbe , hw lordship must have been unacquainted xvitb the proper le ^ al rajcaniftg w ™* term " xooveniicV , which in 35 * & *• c . i ., and ap Car . ti . c . 1 . is cx P fV defined an u nlawful assembly- A Pg ^ regularly registered for public W « according ta fifed tem » s of the ? W- ^ M e . 18 , is a lawful ^^ axOlYt *^ Dh ci ^ fore not a conv ^ nticjc ,
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626 Historical Account of the Warring ton Academy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/2/
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