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attendance op Christian ordinances and bri the duties of social piety . 1 add a few \ vords on the last mstfrirfce of obedience to the claims fct ^ britfc of religion and of Protestaiit dissent . Punctuality on the
jptetrt of congregations as well as of ministefs in public worship , tends fcd cement their mutual relation , tdifcfidejr it uSefal and happy , and te ttutigd art act T of justice on the 5 6
sftffe of t ^ chi the character of ftit particular societies who exem . ^ ifyir , anfd to that of the denomination under which they rank , it is not a little honourable ; while
tfte want of it lessens their respectabilit y &mfi with ^^ their capacity of doing good . All men ^ moreover ; - tieed the dedication of no
inefrnsid&rable portion of theit * time leiTafcts wfcifeh are immediately Stelt £ ? # tiJs ; j - in orcter that , by these 'foiaftS ^ rafe c& and vanities of 9 TRFbiiy- * t > e " " prevented from engfdssfttg ouf attention and raining ^ ur tfeace ^ But I-am the
advo-^^ df * h * £ > egularity chiefly that ' •^ HbUbdhfdfniity from the estafcfebitf VtitrreH * inky serve the f Wft |* ose t > f irctirfering us superior to thi » world , and that the enemies pf dissent may not reproach us * ith relaxation of principle and
* |> ft > nefc £ sB to follow the tbbughtpi rhijltituAe , at the voice of iisfe *^ lii ? t iary or pleasure , * Sd Ifai * aS nbnconformity draws the eyie » of men upon the separatist ^ > ft is favourable to the ad . I&ftceifcerit 6 f personal religion . it ^ Wf * riiotive ' tb fbd raore e .
xemplaty dfech ^ rge of reiigious duties ' £ n < i ^! # z ^ filous ^ tivtftfon of the * ftttbkfyt thfe etiratmii character . Tfibughwe ^ aren ^ veT todo any thing tt ^ yttffil the sak e of our beiifg Wbn W m& , yet , when t for otH ^ - ^ kfthll ^ i * diretted
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towards us , we shall , surely , make it our care that our deportment be such as to endure the test of even the most hostile and envious observation ! Sects ( as the several classes of Dissenters are often
lightly and invidiously termed ) are not surveyed with indifference by the persons in the midst of whom they live . In the present day many circumstances concur
to render them objects of thought z and they will be considered and spoken of with increasing honour by reflecting men in proportion as it is found that their
nonconformity to the establishment , is accompanied with an equally scrupulous nonconformity to the vanities of the ag . Nor has dissent any formidable enemy except in the smiles , the treacherous arts and the magic influences of the world . In vain
has that world assailed it by argument or the appearance of argument : the principles of nonconformity are learnt in the school of Christ and from the lessons of his apostles . In vain have men attempted to crush Dissenters by persecution and by terrors : no external force can subdue ,
conscience and religious principle . But prosperity is more to be dreaded by the separatist than the blackest frowns or severest
buffetings of adversity . —Prosperity may lull him into those dangerous slumbers which precede death : it may inspire him with a sense of safety which portends the near approach of ruin .
Rational , Christian noncon - formity to the world , will preserve us from this evil ! No fed * of sitf . gularity ., no loveofpower ^ gain ^ i fic i pleasure , will draw aside tfi ^ tfufy religious man from the strait
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Essay on Protestant Noit $ ® nfQrmityy fyc . 7 & 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/17/
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