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    Sir , Chatham . ALTHOUGH a Dissenter my reflections will often run on Mother Church , as some call her ; I would say GiiAND-rnother ; and the other day

    it came on a sudden into my head ( you know , Mr . Editor , we cannot always account for our cogitations ) as pertaining to the practice of her pulpit , where , in the same act of supplication , before sermon , the minister

    uses the alternate posture of standing and kneeling , commencing the latter with what is called the Lord ' s Prayer . I know not if * any among the several disputatious Non Cons , who have had the temerity to examine into our Episcopal Establishment , " its form and fashion" have remarked on this .

    Were it not for the uniform mode of devotion in the desk , I should have supposed prostration may be deemed preferable in this one instance to shew that degree of deference which is due to the language of a divinely-commissioned Teacher \ in distinction from

    that of ordinary men , whose compositions , it may be inferred from such a custom , are not considered as infallible . Perhaps some one can explain on the subject who is particularly interested in it , which I confess myself not to be any further than as being of those curious folk who always wish clearly to ascertain the ^ reason of things . SECEPER .

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    390 Forms and Fashions of the Established Church .

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    faith , it should reconcile one to the difficulty ; and it is surely more desirable that the disputants should submit to necessity or to an impartial award , than that they should irritate each other to endless animosity and strife . If I may venture an opinion €

    in this instance , I should say , < Don ' t let B . be disturbed in his possession , let him enjoy the advantages to which he is personally entitled ; but let not his successors partake of them where they had no previous title or right . Let B secure to A or to his creditors ,

    a certain sum as a compromise to be received by them at his decease , and if they can make any thing by the sale of the reversion , all parties will then bear a proportionate share in the loss , and thus it might ( I think ) be pronounced " an equitable adjustment . " JAMES LUCKCOCK .

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    Critical Synopsis of the Monthly B& pository for Jane , } 82 S ; ^

    UNITARIAN FUNDr &EPORT The aspect of things would ^ e ^ considerably brighter than at the ttnjre of the last Report . Critical Synopsis . In the notice of Dr . Jones , I meant to have written , €€ Dr . Graves , &c , has attempted % similar vein . "

    Affinity of Calvinlsts and Antino . mians . Calvinists and Antinotriians can well afford to profess a little c < humility , " when their very creed plagfes them at the summit of the moral creation I . love such calm , clear , caiftpaet little expositions as this . Although , when taken separately , they do hot ia a technical or scientific manner exhaust the subject , yet they fix the

    attention upon it about as long as is profitable or tolerable $ they cut up by piecemeals and inroads a dark and tangled territory , which it would cost the mind almost too great sacrifices to subdue by a continued effort .

    Mr . BakeweWs Remarks on Dr . Smith . Let me again urge upon Mr . Bake well the republication of his . own answers to Dr . Smith , if the attacks of the latter gentleman , in their collected form , are likely to produce any injurious effects on the public iuin « L At all events , I should hope , and cannot doubt , that the whole controversy

    will be translated &nd republished in Geneva . With what interest would it be read in that city ! Mosaic Mission . When , in modern times , devout persons say , that God fought the battles of the allies against Buonaparte , that God produces every

    special event of Providence , that God has sent us a smiling or a scanty harvest , that God has inspired any given individual with a great and benevolent design , a lofty and holy resolution , J * J that the voice of Providence is clerifty heard enjoining a particular duty ,

    there seems to be no difficulty 111 comprehending the meaning of such ea > pressions . Now is this a key , or fait not , to those religious expressions ip the writings of the ancient Israelites , where facts , of which many are no more extraordinary in their natUt ^ than those that have just been tour ; iterated , are ascribed to the imm ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/10/