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tfr # ^ fa&teW * * f ffafotto $$ y 9 \* when irapawkky ^ priest { according * to Idw * And ho doubt , Sir , it is a very h £ rd thing for ' * femteraerr fcf true Dissenting principles" to be censured and ridiculed for merely
participating in a service which is directly opposed to tke dictates of fcheir cdasciences . Perhaps W . H . is of opinion tha 4 ; the man who kneels before the " holy altar ; ' * who has to say " Amen-, " at the conclusion of the Nicene Creed ; and who has to say or
to sing , " O Lord , the only-begotten , Son Jesus Christ ; O Lord God , Lamb of God , Son of the Father , that takest away the sins of the worid , have raercy upon us ; " is sufficiently punished by the restless monitor within him . if he
believes that "to us Christians there b but one God the Father , " without any reproof from his narrow * minded Unitariaa friends . Be it so ; on this supposition we are agreed *
But , Sir , I find on reading a little farther , that W . H . ' s disapprobation of the " taunt and reviling" origuiatjes in a different cause . Our Lord , he
informs us , did not refuse to " s » t with the Pharisee at meat ; " and yet he was not made a Pharisee . The danger , you must be aware , was quite on the other side ; it was far more * likely that the Pharisee would become a Christian , than that . Gfyrist would
sacrifice his principles , or be in the least degree likely to be led astray by men whom he was seat to instruct and redeem . Perhaps the " gentlemen of true Dissenting principles' * who , in order to become magistrates , join in " the order of the holy
communion , " as by law established , may be thinking of the impression they will , by this means , be able to produce iu favour of pure Christianity upon the minds of their Trinitarian friends ; perhaps it is thus they think they can
best display "the moral and Christian use of the Lord's Supper ; " and most likely they avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them to heal the sick , to instruct the ignorant , and to bring them to a knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus Christ . Such , at least . we are . told , was the conduct
of our Lord when he sat down to the f ^ Wet of tJU « Pharisee . We do not , ujd ecd , ! rqacl t }* at He listened to or joiiie ^ i i ^ \ & / J ^ f ^ njiUifian pwyef , much
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rather at a loss to comprehend . I ^ qr does the following passage diminish the difficulty : " May not any sincere Christian , if equally iGett-infbrm $ jd 9 join with equal satisfaction or with
equal propriety , any other denomination of the , Christian < comwuuUy into which tfa # great body , of the Ciiurch is divided , in the ) accu&tQmed form of
the administration of tins rite belonging to each ? " If tiie writer means that every Christian has a right to celebrate the ordinance of the Lord ' s Supper with those views and in that manner which he believes to be most
consistent with , the instructions of Christ , there is nothing particularly new in the information ; but - if he
means that , as a Unitarian , he cai > partake of the Lord's Supper with any other denomination of professing Christians , how would he be able to
avoid " the adoration of the host , the order of the holy communion , " and * ' the creeds and confessions ^ of
Trinitarian Dissenters ? I am almost disposed to conjecture that W . H . does not think it ought to be supposed that any profession aPtt&ligion is made by
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On th& MorMhan 4 ± Clkrutivib Uxe-qftke LardU Supper . 165
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/37/
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