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    it has been since : but on which side i prdpiifety and consistency lay , your ' Cofrresp 6 ndent pretends not to decide . < What endeavours were used , or whe- 1

    ther any , to introduce an organ , he does not know ; fifty years being too distant a period for him to recollect particulars , nor has he had tinurh . connexion with that congregation for near forty yeats . But he can positively state , that neither ** an organ , " nor " a stated form of prayer , " was introduced in Mr . Lo ' wthion ' s time . But if thev

    had , where would have been the unpardonable transgression ? With regard t 6 the former , was it not rather a proof of his superior sagacity , strength of mind and freedom from prejudice , openly to propose the introduction of it , if he were persuaded , ( which no doubt he was , ) that the use of it was

    not only innocuous , but might be rendered conducive to good , by enlivening devotion , regardless of the censures of the illiberal and prejudiced ; on whose conduct , in that respect , more enlarged sentiments , and increased light and knowledge , have since pronounced their sentence of approval ?

    That Mr . Lowthion used forms of prayer of his own composition occasionally , is not denied ; but his usual mode of conducting the devotional service in his congregation , was by free prayer , in which he eminently excelled : and the writer of this

    recollects , with lively pleasure , the animating fervour with which he directed the thoughts and hearts of his auditors , to the pious contemplation of their Maker . But , however these

    things might be , with what consistency can the late Mr . Lindsey be brought forward as disapproving of stated forms of prayer among Dissenters , when he himself made use of

    them , from the very instant of his commencing his ministry among them , till the conclusion of it ? It may also be asked , what connexion there is bet wren the rife of confirmation , as practised in the Church of England , and the use ^ f organs , or stated forms of prayer , among Dissenters ?

    In what has been said , nothing can be more remote from the intention of the writer , than to cast any imputation on the character of that distinguished * confessor of the truth , the late Mr . Lindsey , whose uncommon di » - i r

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    interested ness in relinquishing tM € l ease and emoluments of an opulen t * dignified and dignifying great National Church , " ( hisown words , ) from conscientious motives , deserves to be

    held in lasting and respectful remembrance . . But he disapproves exceedingly of the indiscretion of his friends , in bringing before the public , without proper selection or curtailment ,-Mr . Lindsey ' s confidential communications to his friends , which never could have

    been intended to meet the public eye , and of which , he is confident , it would have deeply wounded Mr . Lindsey ' s feelings , could he have imagined that such an use would have been made . What human character ( and it is with great pleasure admitted , that Mr .

    Lindsey ' s was as perfect as most ) , could undergo such an ordeal , without , iti some degree , suffering from it ? He is also of opinion , that the communicator of Mr . Lindsey ' s letter was wanting in delicacy to the memory of

    the late Mr . Lowthion , in giving his name and place of abode at length , without any reserve , or endeavour at concealment : some kind of veil * how * ever flimsy or transparent , would have appeared respectful

    Your giving the foregoing insertion in the Monthly Repository , the iirst convenient opportunity , will greatly oblige a warm friend of that publication , L * P .

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    Onmrhe Passages in a Letter of the late Dr * Simpsons . SBi

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    Sir , IN the XXVIth Volume of the Evangelical Magazine , Q > , 59 , ] appears a posthumous letter , written

    more than twenty-seven } ears ago , to one , signing himself Mancuniensis , from the late Dr . Simpson , Theological Tutor of the Hoxton Academj r , who then resided at Bolton , in Lancashire .

    A few remarks on the followingextracts are submitted to > our consideration , whether they be sufficiently interesting for insertion in the Repository " A . Mr . J . from N ., called upon me last week , with a design to collect

    some money amongr our people , towards defraying the expenses that attended the building of a chapel somewhere in Wales . I sent him to Mr . and his people . Mr . supposing him to be one of his frater-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 551, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/15/