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REVIEW. # * Still pleaked ' to praise, yet not afraid to blame/*—PdPE.
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Art . I . —The General Prayer-Book , containing Forms of Prayer ou Principles common to all Christians , for . Religious Societies , for Families , and for Individuals : chiefly selected from the ScripMfires , the Book of Common Prayer , and the Writings of various Authors . &y John Prior
Estlin , LL . D . Cr . 8 vo . pp . 236 . Longman and Co . & . 6 d . * 1815 . PR AYER-BOOKS have too often been the mere symbols of party , serving to instruct the several sects in
their Shibboleths . One of these < com-Tn ! cition& has been the occasion of more misery than any other hundred volumes > vhich were ever published . » From Sk Bart ) x > lomew Day , 1662 , to the present time , its influence has been
manifested by divisions and excommunications , wounded consciences and broken hearts . We therefore hail the appearance of a Book of Common Prayer , the design of which is to unite and not to diviae ,
to support Christianity and not human systems , and to promote charity and p iety and not what the compiler may deem orthodoxy . ' ** Of the following * collection of prayers , th * first form , is taken entirely from the Scriptures ; the second is taken chiefly from a Paraphrase on the Lord ' s Prayer try i the ilier . John Simpson ; the third ,
from some Services published About fixity years ago , for the use of a coogisegation in : lfiverpool ; the fourth aad flfth , from $ Xttdt £ ti < mQ of tije Cammoii Prayer- and tbje / M ^ tii ^ 'frhic ^^ preserves tljte mode generally jw use among Diasenterp , from a Prayer written for k Fast- < iay , and piih-Iisfee ^ by revest p . f the congregation with which the writer uj connected . It consequently , contains bpth the religious and jtaBtical Sentiments of that respectable abciety . * tfhe / prayers for Families , fotf Indrridtials and for' Voting ^ Petsons / are partly original arid partly taken ffidhi Che Esi » e ) d- % trek i-itvii ^ j friBa the serviced of Chf . JEnfield , JMr . Kiiigstrarp , Mr . Wetiv ^ le , » hd tbeyfPrayerspnbiirfied by . thc / Ux £ rtiu Fian Society . Prqfi , Pp , asti * xtn <
'Both the original and tfie selectf ^ j forms in this volume appear to us &&-jj ^ eraWe ^ o the professions of the cdrh ^ piler . hnd to be drawn up bh IViTVa ples tronimort to all Christians / 1 Trrey wiltb ^ fQUhd of great < vqb fa ' ma 4 h so-
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cieties of Christians ( if such there be ) as , agreeing in the general doctrines of the gospel , in the desire to unite on this foundation , and in the expediency of a liturgy , are yet of different persuasions on some of the controverted point 9 of faith . Churches of this description , alone Catholic , will feel the value of this manual of charity and devotion .
In the Preface , Dr . Estlin states , in a very frank and solemn manner , his sentiments on spine of the most interesting topics of Christian morality . He thus explains the reasons of his nonconformity : ** Approving of the occasional use of printed forms of prayer , both in public
and in private , and admiring the style and manner of the Liturgy of the Church of England , he laments that he is precluded from joining in it , by a disbelief of some of the doctrines which it contains , aud a disapprobation of the claim to infallibility , and the intoleraiit spirit Which characterize one of its fundamental creeds .
" In connectieg himself with Dissenters , he was influenced by no sectarian spirit ; for the fn 4 t wish of fyis heart , until he -was nearly tvtfcnty yea ^ s of ftge ^ was to of * ficiate iri the Estabrished Church , and to procure for himself that share of its emo- luments and honours which was to be
obtained by a fair competition , by professional industry 1 « nd by consistency of character .
" It hajs often been a painful consideration to fcim * and has L led to ya m ^ st Q » pleasant g ^ jn ^ ra ^ ^ aiefvtince , that hi * cfose attention tn thq futycct i nod Jkd&Jifetlfaterfiwtatfryi npjer to sacrifi . ee fp iflGypfo t 9 inclination , ^ ould h are operated as the cause of his exclusion . With , ^ very ^ pioiw mind he r would ! cordially sympathise , if it could be niWc to appear that ^ the opposite qualities—^ that ignorance ^ and kvtpit of principle , not' only presented no ^ ar , but afforded a facility to admission .
«< Fttitbet ^ consideration , i » 3 tert 4 of re-7 ticn ) i 7 $ g , < m \ yytnctf * tt $ ed \ ki& difficulties until he was forced' at last to cest in the convio tioiv that as , conformity % a the mode of religion entabiisotd iu ( jhis oou >\ U y wQuld r&iwjce h + m to ^ ul >» cn ^ e eb ^*| . two hu » - dr » d af ^ 4 4 ^« prpfl ^ K >»^ [ W 9 * whi ^ hi ^ . Wt be # e * e , and to read ^ d $ w ^ fch he cqn ? aiderwi a * viuspt ? ntural aaa ^ to feran ^ yyirtWftfX , ^} WMA % tions of ft congregation when nc cbuW no * ^ compifeiy thism with l ^ i * . TwiW * i 9 H <^ ir ^ % ^ KGS ; *? iiiii bt ^ Mom ^
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Review. # * Still Pleaked ' To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame/*—Pdpe.
REVIEW . # Still pleaked ' to praise , yet not afraid to blame /*—PdPE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/32/
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