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quence of our having no acknowledged symbol of out faith . This , however , is a distinction of which we think we have some right to be pro ad . We leave every man to form his own CTeed on reading the volume of divine truth , and long may we continue to do so . Still the misrepresentations existing in the world are greatly prejudicial to what we believe to be the cause of Christian truth .
I sincerely believe that the general use in our churches of such compositions as the Essex-Street liturgy would go far to correct these misrepresentations ; for that excellent form of prayer contains the clearest proofs of our admitting the divine authority of Jesus Christ as a teacher sent from God . Let any seriously-disposed person compare the liturgy of the Church of England , and that used in the Essex-Street
Chapel , with the prayers which are contained in the New Testament , and the result can hardly fail to be favourable to our views of Christianity . In this point of view then , the general introduction of liturgies among us can scarcely fail to be an important benefit to our cause . There are very many members of the establishment whose seutiments are
believed , on very probable grounds , to be favourable to the views of Christianity entertained by Unitarians . Nothing would be so likely to induce these individuals to make open profession of our opinious , by becoming members of our
congregations , as the introduction of liturgies . These persons may very reasonably object to joining a congregation where they have but little previous knowledge of the devotional services to be used by the minister , and no security that those services mav be more
consistent with their sentiments than those of the church which they are leaving . Rather than do this , they may prefer remaining in the Established Church in which they have been brought up , and in the services of which , though there is much which they cannot asseut to or join in , yet a large portion remain * of the purest devotional character , and perfectly agreeing with their sentiments respecting the doctrine of Christianity . LUCIUS .
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" The First Socinian in England . *' To the Editor , Sir , This distinction is accorded by John Aubrey , the antiquary , to Lucius Carey , second Viscount Falkland , eldest sou of
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Sir Henry Carey , the first Viscount , and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland . Lucius was educated in the University of Dublin , and while youug was wild and mischievous , and prone to use the dagger in his quarrels . In time he grew serious , and became a very hard student . He had a house at Coventry , where he would
sit up late at night to study , and often resort to the library at the school in that city ; but he lived much at Tue , a pleasant seat near Oxford , which he inherited through his mother , who was daughter and heiress of Tan field , Lord Chief Barou of the Exchequer . Aubrey says Lord Falkland ' s house was like a college , full of learned men . Chillingworth was his most intimate and
bestbeloved favourite ; next m his estimation was Bishop Earle , author of Micro-Cosmography . He was likewise well acquainted with Sandys the traveller and translator , Ben Jonson , Edmund Waller , Thomas Hobbes , and all the excellent wits of the time . In the civil wars he
adhered to Charles I ., who made him principal Secretary of State with Sir Edward Nicholas . In that capacity he persuaded the King to the siege of Gloucester , which , as the city was bravely defended by Colonel Massey , so weakened the royal army that it led to the ruin of the King ' s cause . At the battle of Newbury , while the armies were
engaging , Lord Falkland having nothing to beguile his attention , rode furiously into the fight , and was shot . The prevailing studies in England in Lord Falkland's early days were poetry aud controversy with the Church of Rome . Bishop Earle would not allow his Lordship to be a good poet , but a great wit : « ' he writ not smooth verse , but a great deal of sense . " His mother was a zealous
Roman Catholic , and earnest to have her son of that persuasion . 4 * And her son upon that occasion , " says Aubrey , " labouring hard to find the truth , was so far at last from settling in the Romish Church , that he settled and rested iu the Polish ; ( mean Socinian ism . He was the first Socinian iu Englazid ; and Dr . Creasy , of Merton College , Dean of Leighiin in Ireland , afterwards a
Benedictine Monk , ( author of the Church History of Britain , ) a great acquaintance of my lord ' s in theme days , told me at Sam . Cowper ' s ( 1669 ) , that he ( Creasy ) was the first that brought Socinus ' s books [ into England ] : shortly after , my lord coming to him , and casting his eye on them , woultl needfl presently borrow them to peruse ; and was so extremely taken and satisfied with them , that froiu
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Miscellaneous Correspondence . 335
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1830, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2584/page/47/
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