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form agreed upon by his congregation , but according to his own good pleasure , which sometimes introduces a little politics into his religion . Most sincerely therefore do I wish that Unitarians would adopt the liturgic form of prayer * as a mean the
most probable of inducing the members of the establishment to join them . In a Liturgy , consisting of as many services as you please , the Trinitarian would see—that you had kept clear of all his objections—all the world would have the clearest evidence that Unitarians are not the
atheistical or deistical persons they are too generally supposed to be—and , to name no further advantage , in the event of the minister ' s abseuce or illness the devotional part of the service need never be omitted . This I
am sorry to see , by the last number of the Christian Reformer , has been the case lately at such a place at Norwich ; and , in the present dearth of ministers , is too frequently the case elsewhere .
In fine , Mr . Editor , I beg leave very respectfully to propose , that the term Meeting-house be entirely discarded , and that of Unitarian Church be substituted throughout the country —that a Liturgy of two or more services be universally adopled ^ -that the
churches every where be kept in the best possible condition , and comforta bly warmed in cold weather— -and , the road being thus made both straight and pleasant , 1 am satisfied we should much more frequently see the serious and respectable members of * the establishment in our churches than we
have hitherto done , or are at all likely to do under the present aystetn ; the guiph between the Church and &e Meeting-house being so great , that tew there be who attempt to pass it . Liu
P . S . Although we have lately beard nothing of the plan for forming Unitarians into a more compact body , so important an object is * 1 trust , in ' progress .
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tention was excited to this subject , by a remark in HalFs publication on *• Terms of Communion , ' * page 12 ft where it is said that , * ' the Lord ' s Supper is a positive and arbitrary
institution , in consequence of which the right to it , is not to be judged of by moral considerations and general reasoning , but by express prescription and command . " Now then , I wish to know from honest men and
Christians , how it happens , that the mo ~ dern disciples of Christ , eat leavened bread , contrary to express prescription and the example of their Master ? Who can claim a right to alter a tittle of a positive and arbitrary institution ? This is Antichrist in the only
true sense of that word ; and he who can claim a right to alter one part of a positive institution , has the same right to alter any other part , or to alter the whole . A few words are sufficient for the wise , and the thinking part of mankind . Yours , &c .
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Birmingham , Jan * 2 , 1816 . Sir , CONGRATULATE you and tlws I friends of uncorrupted Christianity on the proposal for publishing a uniform and complete edition of &r *
PrieHlty 8 Theological Works , The editor ( our much-respected friend , Mr . Rutt ) is richly entitled to the thanks of the Unitarian public . It is evident , from the proposed mode of publication , * that the only objects he
can have in view in entering upon so laborious an undertaking are the promotion of thfe great cause of rational Christianity , and of erecting an honourable and lasting monument to the memory of one of the best Christians and greatest philosophers of the
age * Looking forward to this publica * tion with much pleasure ( though , I con&ss * not altogether unmixed with anxiety , lest the expense- of the un * dertaking should prevent many warm friends to the cause from giving it their support ) I beg leave particularly
* A friend of mine , conversant with the expenses of publishing , tells me that a volume the same bulk with that pro * posed for the Works ( which will cost the subscribers about 13 * , 6 d . ) could ^ ot be sold to the public by a bookfcelter for le « ff than IB * .
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JRdyttd * , -Det . to , 1815 . SHOULD not havfc sent thft let-I ter to yottr Rejptteitbry if I had not kn 6 wn that your headers are e ^ nfetWlfr reckoned among the thHikw ^ stat ^ of tfi ' e ifeHgtoli * woHd . Thte # Bj& * fc thtr JJfart * s % tipper , t ilf afc
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/21/
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