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Rev . J . Jeians on the Universal Church . 737
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Bloxham , Sir , October 9 , 1818 . 1 H 0 PE the following letter will be thought worthy of a place in your valuable Miscellany , after what is said , in p . 559 , by Mr . Clarke on his proposed chapel . " Reverend Sir , u I have lately read your pamphlet on mixed communion , and thank you for it : it does credit both to vour
head and heart . You very properly lament the many schisms that exist in the Christian church , and observe , that € it is easier , however , ' &c . * to deplore the malady than to prescribe the cure . Many years ago , when different bodies of Christians were forming religious unions , a letter of mine appeared in the Protestant Dissenter ' s Magazine , recommending 1 one on a much larger basis . It was observed , that the Hindoos , who pride themselves so much an their casts , and are in general so shy of persons of a different cast
from their own , and , I may now add , who probably worship different gods at home ; when they appear before their great idol Jugunnat'ha , drop all idea of these things , and mingle together in religious worship as equals j that the 4 evvs also , who were divided into the sects of the Pharisees , Sadducees and Essencs , &c , appeared together before Cod , at the temple at Jerusalem three times a year , and there forgetting their different religious
# WhiUaker ' s Hist , of Craven , p . 340 , and of Whalley , p . 171 . t Velly . Hist , do France , III . 236 , "VOl « . XIII . 5 0
speculations , worshiped together on principles common to them all ; that if Christians were to act at times on the same . enlarged principles , it would surely neither be displeasing to God nor to the head of the Christian church .
" But no apparent good arose from my sending this letter to the Protestant Dissenter ' s Magazine . " If you , Sir , were to write and preach to recommend it , and make a beginning at the populous , 1 should hope it would not be in vain . Things
must , sooner or later , come to this . If we are too much set on supporting our own petty interests to adopt it , a much wiser and more divine body of Christian ministers will , I trust , at length be raised up who will set about it , and blame us for not makingthe effort before .
" There are a sufficient number of very weighty and important religious subjects , which all Christians believe , to supply us with excellent matter for every part of the worship of God ;
and the very nature of the associatioa itself would kindle a warm . spirit of devotion in every well-disposed mind * Who knows how far such a heavenly flame might spread ; or how great its happv consequences might become ?
"There probably is uo person among the Dissenters who can do so much as yourself to persuade the different denominations of Christians to associate in this manner . —It is the same thing , on a smaller scale , that you are endeavouring to promote by your pamphlet . —We see it in a manner exist in the different bodies of Christians
who assemble at the Bible Societies ; but it is highly desirable that the associations should be more general * more frequent , &c , and above all ,, more devotional . ct If such associations were formed , as their religious views afterwards more assimilated , they would , with the
greatest ease and most perfect , harmony , increase the number of religious topics in the worship of God , until ( if suchperfection shaJJ ever exist in this worlds they would all be , not only of one heart , but also of one mind .
St . Paul says , " whereto we have already attained , let us walk by the same rule , let us mind the same thing . " Philip , iii . 16 . 4 t If these thoughts are not reduced
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the earth when he came to seek his own . " This way of living well on their travels was not confined to the dignitaries of Rotne . The archbishop of York , * in 1321 , raised a train of two hundred persons , who were maintained at the expense of the abbeys on his road , and travelled on , hunting * with a pack of hounds , from parish to parish . The third Council of Lateran , t in 1180 , had , however , pretended to abolish this part of the travellingamusements of the clergy , and also limited bishops to a train of forty or fifty horses . E . T .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 737, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/9/
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