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cij&Uy if fcr tw <* sermons a day , is with them $ nillsi g # v it has a fqu natic aspect , an < J if they would yentUEe to speak # ut 5 tHis is their sense at -tb § bottom : Hs drives the point too fa ^ he is m good earnest for the church : he ' s a
dangerous person . To sum up our evidence ; these gentlemen ' s churchship is not to bp found in the book of Articles , of (? anons of Homilies * nor of
Common Prayer , nor jit any book that I know of , but what I nevei * could see , the Book of Sports * 3 [ es , tj ^ re is one book all over caponicaU and with them the /> « 7-Ipr and ground of truth ; the author of it caine to an ill end , but his tn < d zvasaccording to hiszvorfts ; fpjr 7 th © Devil had never a , more serviceable tool : and that is Hu *
dikrapy one canto of which , Jn their account , is worth all the cant of St . Paul ' s epistles ; antj IJve known some who were trained up for champions , have got every line of Uudibras by heart , Jb ^ for ^
they could say one chapter pfthe , Bible , or had read it , perhaps » as far as Exodus . And no won . derif it were had in such high esteem , when a defender of ( he faith declared at the counciLtable , it was the best book that ever was
printed ; and yet I think the Bible had then passed the press . To conclude— -the new marks of church membership , which serve as tests or criCerions , to find out a fanatic wolf in sheeps' cloth , ing , are as follow : ...,,.
1 . To call the communiontable an altar , which supposes a sacrifice ; and I never heard of a # y outward sacrifice amongst Christians , but that o ( the Mass * ; 2 . Conformably to this tenn ^ tQjn&G a pifQfo . u ^ d reverence ^ or
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congee io&m itO ^ S | d ^ it ; yiyhi cli by ^ heu wj ^ y , fe far mor ^ reasonable in th ^ jQAwjGi ^ ^ f \ K ^^ i ^ y for tbqr have # omeihi » g ; t ^ plead U * its de , fence : yi ?» that tbey haye th ^ r God before them i& thevJ ?^* as
a present object of their devotion , 3 . To turn their faces towards the East when they repeat the creed ( and many when they perform other parts of their , devotioi § for which the only precedents I can meet with , are tfcbse twentyfive men , whom the ^ prophet Eze . kiel caught , ( Ezek ; viik . 1 ^ 5 ) aifA I think he does tin ! mucii jeonr * mend them for iti '* ;^ With their
backs towards vthe -HDBOiple ^ of ^ thc Lord , and th ^ r fac ^ 3 . toward the East , but they b&j&iwme reason on their side , tftm it seems they wiere worshi pfrif * g 3 $ ie - su ^ a vi * 4 . Upon pain of JfonetSici $ mf to call the ChFbti ^ j ^ Sahbafeh fcpiJio otb ^ r but the old heathenish came
ofJ ^ Sunday , -ahA atc ^ ordingly 40 ^ make as / heatheiii ^ bicaoute , © fkit : tn . scruplCaw ) yi&ksy journeys , divei&ions * &c * - feut to . iend it al < nriiwv : fb | S a ^ Sabbatari an (' tis well k « own ) ia f of ail others ^ the rankest fanatic * c - ' 5 i Qf late to vilify the memory of King "William , and throw alt the dirt upon him they can . CL What I know not well whether it be a civil or sacred testy
( a sacred it should be by being constantly uncovered at it ) a « d whether it requires constant or but occasional conformity , I leave to the learned ^ -To drink the Church '* health : And I suppose the rulo is > as in other cases , Fill as ye love her ; and she says , as Cant , v . 1 , " O friends , drink , yea , drink abundantly . Now if such drink-offerings may pass for devotion , we need not corn f as » *«
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742 Portrait of a High-Churchman . < l
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 742, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/14/
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