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ages the servants of God worshiped him in deserts and in mountains , and hi dens and eaves of the earth ; Paul prayed and taught in his owi > hired house ; the early Christians were wont to meet together wherever a place might be found , ** before it is light , and to sing among themselves , alternately , a hymn to Christ as a God ; and they bind themselves by an oath , not to the commission of any wickedness , but not to be guilty of theft , or robbery , or
adultery , and never to falsify their word . " * But in our Lordly days a minister of Christ must not have a prayer-meeting in his own house I We thought the Bishop of London had more sense . He and the clergy of the Church of England , of all ranks , will do well to remember that this is an age in which high-church pretensions will be looked at with extraordinary vigilance and
jealousy . It is folly for his Lordship to imagine that he can forward the interests of the church by such meddling ; let him rest assured he wil ( not put down , by such means , the obnoxious practice of having prayer-meetings at a man ' s own house , and that he will be laughed at into the bargain . If the Bishop is a friend to dissent , we advise him to go on in his new see , as he has begun ; otherwise , the sooner he stops the better .
The Christian Observer for January , conducted by members of the Estatablished Church , has several ill-natured allusions to Unitarians . It seems studiously to affect language which may disparage us , and we fear that the sequel will prove that itis not very choice in the means which it uses . If it has to report an action at law between two parties , and one is an Unitarian , the obnoxious sectarist meets with indirect , yet plentiful condemnation . These are its words : " The defendant , in the action brought by the Rev . Dr .
Bryce , the Presbyterian minister , for a libel on him as the editor of a newspaper , put in no fewer than 1780 folios , containing extracts from Dr . Bryce ' s journal , to shew that a clergyman ought not to conduct such a publication . The extracts contain , it is stated , accounts of boxing matches , horse races , and sundry other matters , which , however consistent with Dv + Bryce ' s Unitarian views of clerical editorshi p ^ would certainly not be allowed as admissible articles of intelligence by any synod , presbytery , or assembly of his own church . "
The editor has to give an obituary notice of the Rev . J . B . Nee , Pastor at Dieppe , and thus he attempts to throw discredit on a body of Christians who despise the spirit of party bigotry too much to imitate jtt : " The account which we have given , extracted from the pages of the Archives , ' does not specificall y state the doctrine which M . Nee held , or the style of his pastoral instruction ; but we would trust from his active and self-denying exertions * as well as from the truly evangelical character of the publication which records his eulogy , that they were such as became a faithful minister of Jesus Christ , tinctured neither with the Neologism of the German
Protestant school , nor with theSemi-Pelagianism , Semi-Socinianism , which of late years have corrupted too many of that of the French ; but Jiving , preaching , and dying , in the true faith and blessed hopes of the gervukie gospel of the Redeemer . " " We call those Neologists who maintain ( otker doings are mentioned ) , that a unity of faith the most perfect , the most profound , tine most magnificent , exists among Socinians , who believe that Jesus Christ was simply a man—Arians , who make him an angel— -and Evangelical Christians , who adore him as the true God and eternal life . " But the $ e are trifling delinquencies , and such as may be pardoned in consideration 6 f the evangelical correctness and evangelical zeal of the party whence they issue—when
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/38/
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