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dren in understanding . Why otherwise are they so fond of complicated and mysterious creeds , of a splendid ritual , of ostentatious zeal , of superstitious practices and tenets ? Why do they
not put away these childish things , and maintain the simplicity , and exert the sound judgment , which Christianity , the religion of the intellect as well as of the affections , both
inculcates and exemplifies ? 2 Cor . vi . 1 : ' * We then , as workers together with him /* &c . There are those who suggest that the word crw € py&vT £ <; should be translated in the vocative case , < c O ye fellow-workers
toith God and with usy we beseech you /* &c . This rendering , however , is utterly inadmissible . The train of the apostle's reasoning , and the just construction of his language , forbid it . He is addressing himself to a Christian church : and he speaks of his high commission , and of his labours arid
sufferings , in order that he may enforce the topics on which he now writes . It is probable , too , that the prefix £ would have been employed , had he intended to use the participle in the vocative ;• as in Rom . ii . 1 , 3 : Gal . iii .
1 ; 1 Tim . vi . 11 , 20 , Sec . —although this rule is not invariably observed . " Ex sententia Ven . Schulzii , ( says Rosenmiiller in loc ., ) apostolus , a comm . 1—10 , sermouem dirigit ad solos doctores Corinthios . Turn vero
o-wzpyevTocq scribere debuisset , non avvzpyevTEq , ut ipse Schulzius monet . All faithful Christian ministers , all consistent and useful professors of the gospel , have the honour of being workers together with the Supreme Being . The apostles never assumed the titles and rank of certain
ecclesiastics . Christians , without exception , are " priests unto God . ** A distinct order of men so denominated , is a thing perfectly unknown to the New Testament : and it is remarkable enough that some zealous advocates of a
hierarchy and priesthood in the church of Christ , refute their own pretensions by the very passage which they bring forward in support of the claim . In Ephes . iv . 11 , 12 , we read , " And he gave some , apostles ; and some ,
prophets ; and some , evangelists ; and some , pastors and teachers ; for the perfecting of the saints , for the work of the ministry , for the edifying of the body of Christ . ** Here , the only
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standing ministers are simply but expressively designated as pastors and teachers . N .
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162 Remarks on the QuakersYearly Epistle
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Evesham , Sir , February 12 , 1821 . YOUR correspondent I . H . X . ( p . 22 ) has made some very just remarks on a passage in the last Epistle of the Yearly Meeting of Friends , which , he thinks , " has not yet met with that degree of animadversion to which it is , from its antiliberal spirit , so eminently entitled . * Perhaps not . And I can readily credit the information he has received from
a member of this Society respecting the prevalence of €€ vague notions of Christian doctrine ** among them ; from which the discourses , or " testimonies" as they call them , of their ministers are by no means exempt .
But I never before heard that any member of the Society affected to be so nice a casuist as to profess any doubt that William Penn was the author as well as the writer of the
" Sandy Foundation Shaken . * ' How this distinction is maintained , your correspondent not being able to learn , I suppose it must for the present remain an unexplained mystery . This excellent tract has not vet been
omitted in any edition of Penn * s works ; not even in the two last editions of his Select lForks 7 published by the Society . In the year 1791 * and a few months only after the London Unitarian Book Society was instituted , I myself had
the pleasure of hearing the " Sandy Foundation Shaken ** most earnestly recommended , in the Yearly Meeting , to the more general perusal and serious attention of Friends , as a sound and highly-important doctrinal tract , by an eminent minister among them , the
late William Jepson , of Lancaster . He was then , and till the time of his decease , more than 20 years after , ( so far as I ever heard , ) universally esteemed , not for any subsequent charge in his sentiments , but for the uniform consistency of his principles and conduct . Nor was his recommendation
of this work objected to by any person present . There may have been then , as well as now , some members of this Society , and especially semi-converts from Wes-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/24/
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