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    one generally apprpv ^ of 5 jtl ^ r af ^^^ i ^ n 9 LM ^ t !> pas ^ forwasi muqh as it is worth . But wJiQ isj 49 , < J ^ cuJ # i what { the genuineUriftity ? otSm& Eat ^ blisfefed Church is ? Are unconnected individuals in a church which 'talbne has authority in matters of faith s * to , be made a standard ? Or ana I to fee ' told that , there are so many different opinions upon the subject , nobody can tell what or where the real doctrine is ? Certainly not . I can read the creeds

    and articles and forms of worship to which all assent , and I imagine myself competent to judge of their meaning . 1 know that in the bosom of the Establishment there are some persons who utterly disbelieve what their outward profession supposes them to acquiesce in ; and that there are others who manage to relieve themselves from a troublesome consciousness of inconsistency , by ingenious explanations and specious glosBes * These ,

    however , are comparatively few . It would , indeed , be absurd to conclude them otherwise , since the only possible use of a common profession mast be to ensure a common faith . In such a constitution , every departure from an absolute unity of opinion is a flaw in the operation of the system . ^ I must therefore contend , till some very strong proof to the contrary shall be produced , that the God of the Church of England is the God of her members ;

    that the . Trinity of the Athanasian Creed , of the Articles , and of the Litany , is the T r inity of the people . Any other explanation , though it may be the doctrine of individuals , is not that of the church , nor that of the people at large . t Trje ( goc / rine of the church is that laid down in her formularies , and fy § do $ rin $ of the people that actually espoused by them in their unequiydca ) . cpndncU The church says of Athanasius ' s Creed , that it shall

    " qe sung of , said ?* fourteen times in the year , and the people sing or say it fourtejen '( in | e ^ ja » t ^ e year . The church says , " here folioweth the Litany to fyp ? ung ors , ai ( i # fter morning prayers , " and it is sung or said by the people ^ T ^ e cjiurch . ^ ays , that the curate of every parish shall diligently instruct chilclren . / in a certain catechism , "to be learned by every , person before he pon ^ e to , j ^ e confirmed by the bishop , " and the children are taught the d ^ ctniies q £ thajt catechism . Now in that Athanasius ' s Creed , and in that Litany , ano ! in , that Catechism , are contained in plain and express

    terms , the very yje ^ s . which Clericus Cantabrigiensis would fain persuade us are unfair and exaggerated . Do we exaggerate the Athar ^ asiqn Cf # ed when we say that it teaches Txitheism ? Do we exaggerate the Litany when we assert that * it supposes a suffering and expiring God ? Do we exaggerate the Catechism when we state that it speaks distinctly of tbifee independent

    Gods , with different names and fulfilling different offices ? Vfe might safely leave'these questions to be answered by any one who will take the , ^ rouble of ito 6 ^ qg into the Book of Common Prayer . We will now examine one point on | y , I assert , that it is believed by the Church of England ( hat God sufrereci apd died . That , your correspondent replies , is " an ultra ^ pr ^ odox statement * ' " ah unfair and exaggerated view . " I have one question to

    as ^ , an answer Io which will settle this at once : to whom , do the m , embers of tile' cfiurch ^ djrect their prayers ? To God or man ? To whom are the $ Q \ v < f > rfl 3 adqreused : " by thine agony and bloody sweat ; by thy crp $ s aiid p ^ ssicjn *^ ' by thy precious death an 4 burial ; by thy glorious resun ^ cfipn and ascensjon , and b y the coming of the Holy Ghost ^ Good hord * deUyer v $ l i , Ityffi is ' j ^ t ^ feij addressed to God himself or it ! $ not . The being who tyMr , , dk&sfeA . ik one capable of suffering fpassion J of being in an agon ^ an < l o £

    dying ; the adjuration supposes him to have actually suffered and die ^ q Who is the being prayed to in this language ? Is he God or is he man r * . The dilemma is obvious .

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    8 / 2 On the Statement of Trmh < ma ? i \ Doetrine&i > y Umtcmans .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page 872, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/16/