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trait of a " High CbwcbmaV ' drawn , it must h § admitted , ja no very flatlering style , but , as ii appears , by one who kfiettf tk& party he describes , m $ y enable those who read it , to compare what was said one hundred and ten years ago , with what we at present witness in this , class of our counlrymei * , and I trust , justify the caution of Salomon * wfeen he says— " Say not that the former days are better than theses **
1 anj , yours , An Ocqasiona t , Contributor . A True Church ef England Alan in 1704 . , .. From a Sermon , called " Plain . English , ** preached at the Church of St . Mary . le-bow , in Cheap * side , by William Bisset , before the *• ' Society for Reformation of Manners /* v - j The conduct of those who were then most loud in bawling out the Churchy the Church * is
described in the following terras : ' * I'll undertake you may find these blessed Churchmen , five times at a play , and ten times at a tavern , for once at divine service . I suppose you know the new distinction , ( Mis a nice one ) of the church , and for the church * One comes constantly to church morning and afternoon : he is with us but yet against us , * or not heartily for us . Another comes
once in a moon , and then , it may be , half drunk , and smells so strong of brandy no one can sit near him ; and so takes up the
room of two better than himself ; ( this is all the church gets by him ) and yet he is violently for the church ; and hie vir 7 kic est , this is the man for their turn . In . deed , to be too constant and serious in all its ordinances , espe-
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Mloipfemy * ; Sept 10 , Sm , gome of us poor Jews , Turks , Infidels - and Heretics * and I know not by what more applicable title yet Batn&ptan Lecturers , Bishops ,
and British v ? nlic $ j may designate our fraternity next , are oftea stig- % matized as blaspheming the sacred najnae by whiqh wq ape called . Does i $ -pever © GQur to any of our orthodox brethren with how bad
a grace tbe siHy charge indeed in our cas £ coujes fromtheiF mouths ? Not Trinity Sunday or Triaity Chapel only , but forsooth Tri ^ nity College too , Trinity Square ^ Trinity House ! !! If this be not
irreverence v § ry ^ ear akinj at teas ^ t , to an offeiHie with a harsher name , what is ? JJow wos ^ ld Jehovah Square § c ^ nt 4 in tb& ear Of a dull UPCircuwjQi ^ d I ^ r ^ elite , or God Squg ^ i % ^ hat ^ f ^ ^ o less im .
p « nefletravblQ p > ode « n Unitarian Cb ^ isi ^ aJ An& ye& agaiin oni rme solemn occasions tfe ^ y see m f& WQnfe ) # ly $ hy oi t-h % - lerai . Why iiuked , r ^ i ^ Hi w > k h& ve s ^ ctfi ^ l yt asted ^ do tfcegf mtx if only in eba ^
rity to the catechumens o { their & < &qq 1 > ^ laiost iiivari ab ly substitute it for o » e so anobiguojus as tiat vfhmb oy ® SaviQu ? ^ if nat hU apostles , sewi tQ hay ^ <; onsi 4 « r ^ 4 aJways . aa synonymous o % with tbe Father ? With so
^ piov ^ d a phraseology surely { l hy might * scorn to mislead ^ if Uy > waulid not concie ^ ceod to edify ! Yqw % CLERICUS .
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Portrait of a High-Churchman . Nov . 5 , 1814 . StK , ^ our inserting the following por-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 741, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/13/
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