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    BT&IGTURES ON A PASSAGE IN THE REVIEW OF KENRICK * ? SERMONS , CONCERNING PUBLIC WORSHIP * ; To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir * Having mot had the advantage of a scholastic education , ot course I must expect to be numbered among the mere scrib ^ biers , in theology ; but this shall not deter me from making

    some remarks on a passage in your last Monthly Repository , wherein your reviewers , I think , have not expressed themselves according to that charity which " believeth all things , &c . I refer to their review of Mr- Kenrick ' s Sermons , page 3 O 9 , where the author is treatingupon public worship : they say , " We must

    strongly suspect , therefore , either the sincerity or self-knowledge of that man who pronounces his character to be so perfect as not to need the assistance of public worship . ' * As they have not defined the term u public worship , ' * I may have mistaken

    their precise idea of it ; but from the context 1 apprehend their minds were fixed on persons who suppose that public prayer , as it is generally used in Christian assemblies , particularly that part called Petition , is not authorised by the Christian dispensation . If these are not the characters they mean , 1 am at a loss

    whom they can mean : and if they are the persons , I wish to ask these gentlemen the following questions : — I How do they prove that these people dissent from this part of public worshi p ^ so called , on a supposition that their characters are more pure than others ? Is it not possible that such persons may have as great sensibility of their own imper ^

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    S * 97 . — -And why not , at some other time , pass through the remaining degrees which the prospecl of future rewards sd mightily aids ? - " ;

    S . 98 . — -Why should I not as often come again , as I am fitted to acquire new knowledge and new capacities ? Do I take away so much at once , that it would not be worth thfc while to come again ?

    S . 99 .- —Is it on this account ? or because I forget that I have beem already here ? Happy for me that . I do forget it ! The recollection of my former state would only cause me td make but a bad use of the present one : and because 1 forget it now , have I then forgotten it for ever ?

    S . 100 . — -Or , because so much time would be lost for me } Lost ? And what have I then to lose by delay ? Is not all eternity mine f

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    Strictures on the Review ofKenrick's Sermons . 413

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 473, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/25/