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    shamefully trespassed : but as I am confident , that I- am addressing to & person who ifr ejmi iiently-possessed of that charity which be&tetk all things ^ so I consider that even that will effectually incline you to excuse my prolixity , and to believe me still to be with

    the utmost sinceritv * Madam , Yours , &c . July 15 j 1751 .

    LETTER II . Mr . Banger , in Seat on .

    ^ DfcAft Sir , As on my remonstrating some time since on the inconsistency of joiriing statedly in such public offices of religious worship , as are

    fundamentally contrary to our judgment-, you were pleased to put * an autfior into my hands , which you then intimated had conduced very much towards

    satisfying yon in relation to your conduct in this respect , I have now taken an opportunity , ( and that indeed'the first my incessantly busy fetation Would admit ) to examine what is there offered to the

    point , and inust confess , am much disappointed in finding no paragraph'relating to that case . —For I apprehend that what the Puritan divines , in the reign of James the

    First , suffered suspension for , was their non-compliance with the ceremonies and adjuncts of piiblic w&rship ; a thing very different fttftti ttte object bfwotship : which is the most ' material , if not the

    ortty exception 0 i * iT a ri AKS make ! id the use of the established liturgy , and is ( in my humble opinion ) a matter of iftfinitdy gtfe&ter cotaseqtience tban what they boggled at . F&t t ^ hAir ^ i dften thoug ^ iBur the mo ^ triltiF 6 ilal bFtK e NbkebWWk ^

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    mist ministers of tho ^ e day s were rather offended at the Ircientiousness and profanation which was then encouraged ahd patronized by public authority ; ( which really was matter of great scandal ) than at complying with the practice of * such usages and observations , as * were allowed on all sides to be of a mutable and indifferent nature .

    I imagine that in all ^ questions of this kind , this necessary distinction ought chiefly to be regarded ; namely , whether the matter in dispute relates either to the fundamental , or circumstantial

    parts of religion . If to the latter ^ then I allow- —that though in the case before us , with respect to the worship anct ceremonies ( to say nothing of the discipline ) enjoined in the Established Church , it were

    easy to point out many unwar . ran table usages ; of which the wisest add be ^ t of its members have still complained as a blemish to her constitution and a burden

    to the practisers' ; and which you , Sir , and myself have ere now been considering : such as the reading ; the psalter throughout—Thejejune and spiritless expressions ( at least ) with which the common offices

    abound—The impropriety of the hymns and versicfes—The tau «» , tologious recital of the Lord ' s Prayer—The promiscuous use of the burial-office—The cross and sponsors in baptism—The priest ' s absolution— -Worshipping towards the East—and many dttierexpres * sibns and Ceremonies which to tL

    rational mind must appear quite absurd and indefensible . — Ytft ( whatever others ? nay have ap |> rrp bended ) they are noi reasons suf * ficient to prevail on me to separat ^ frftfei at religioxMi society with whput I fead hitherto ^ cia communiori ;

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    Lc&ttrs vf Mr , Bartkdiometc Hoare . —Letter tT 0 £ \§

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/7/