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and united worship . The Established National Church , in some degree , though imperfectly , realizes such worship among all classes of our
countrymen ; in attending it we testify the essential identity of our religion with that of our neighbours in general , and cultivate a powerful bond of union between ourselves and numerous
estimable characters . Perhaps there is nothing that has a happier social influence on men , than communion In religious worship : it introduces the new and interesting relation of fellow-worshipers , and I should be sorry , on the ground of some abstruser points , to
forego this relation with the great majority of my neighbours while I retained it only with a few . I might proceed to other arguments , but this feeling alone would , I think , always make me reluctant to drop all connexion with the Establishment . Let
ine not , however , be misunderstood . As religious worship is the most noble engagement of the mind , so it must be that which we should of all things wish to perform in the most excellent
nay , thai is , in the way most congenial to our sense of truth and right . It is , therefore , a very painful and offensive thing to witness this solemn and reasonable service marred with
what we regard as folly or falsehood It is necessary to worship God in the manner most agreeable to our own consciences : to this important consideration , even that of Christian union with our brethren must bend :
and hence 1 come to this conclusion ; that it is best for a Unitarian , in general , to attend Unitarian worship , but , at the same time , it will not be improper for him occasionally , or even frequently , to be a partaker in the devotions of the National Church .
In conclusion ^ I will just notice that I . W . is not correct in stating that Mr . Le Grice was chosen President of the Society in Sir Rose Price ' s room , that post being assigned to another clergyman of the neighbourhood : he has also incorrectly attributed to him a
certain violent and absurd passage , quoted in p . 154 , but which came from an anonymous pen . In relation to myself also , I may be allowed to observe ., that my Acadeinus was not on the banks of Isis , but of Cam Finally , I . W . ' s paper manifests much , and , I doubt not , an honest zeal to
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propagate what he deems correct sentiments , and assuredly it is well to be zealously affected in a good thing ; bufc he will allow me to suggest , that there is , even than zeal , " a more excellent teat / . A FRIEND TO INQUIRY .
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Bloxham , Jan . 13 , 1824 . AN extract , with additions , frora a Sermon , preached at Bloxham , December 8 , 1816 , on account of the death of the Rev . Benjamin Carpenter , who first settled at Bloxham .
Heb . xiii . 7 : " Remember them who have the rule' * ( preside ) ' * over you , who have spoken unto you the word of God ; whose faith follow , considering the end of their conversation /' " I shall , as a further improvement of this subject , give you a short account of the different persons who have been your settled ministers here and at Milton . —Milton is a mile and a half from Bloxham .
" In the year 1662 , in the reign of Charles II ., near 2000 ministers of the Church of England left it , because they could not subscribe to certain articles of faith and practice that were
then required of them . Those ministers were one principal cause of the great body of Dissenters that are now in England , Wales , &c . ; for though there were before a kind of Dissenters
from the Church , called Puritans , yet these were the principal cause of the present Dissenting interest . " Many severe and cruel laws were made against them , and such as dared to attend their ministry . €
< At that time our old meeting-house at Milton was provided , which appears to have Jbeen originally nothing more than a humble dwelling-house . " That very small village itself , and the part of it in which the meetinghouse stood , were both probably fixed
upon on account of their being very private places , as also because it was a central spot to the neighbouring towns and villages of Bloxham , Banbury , Bodicott , Adderbury , Dedingtoii , Empton , and the two Barfords ; from most , or all of which , the
congregation came . " When the Five-Mile-Act took place , which forbad these ministers to reside within five miles of a borough town , ( such as Banbury is , ) some of them
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 263, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/7/
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