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Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. Daniel Waterland, D.D, Vol. 2 of 6: Formerly Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Canon of Windsor, and Archdeacon of Middlesex
God, but in I know not what dark and blind metaphysics, the words of men.
I gladly embrace this Opportunity of joining in the public thanks to your Lordship, for the late memorable instance Of your truly primitive and episcopal zeal against the adversaries Of our common faith. The attempt to introduce, by a private authority, new forms Of doxology, in Opposition to those now in use, which are Of long standing and great authority in the Church Of Christ, is justly abhorred by all that have the honour of our blessed Lord and of our common Christianity near at heart. To ascribe all glory to the Father, in contempt of those other forms which give glory to all the three Persons, is too plainly declaring in facts what is disowned in words, and is laying aside that modesty in practice which is pretended in prin ciple. It was high time to give a check to such dangerous inno vations; and to warn your faithful Clergy against such scandalous abuses. Present and future generations will be obliged to your Lordship for your pious cares and wise endeavours in this behalf; and for so eminent an example of an unshaken firmness in those principles which alone can make our Church glorious or kingdom happy. From which should we ever be so infatuated and aban doued as to start or swerve, (which God forbid, ) we should, from being the purest and most justly celebrated Church in the world, become the meanest and the most contemptible of any, (if we could still be called a Church should expose ourselves inevitably to the just wrath and vengeance of Almighty God, and to the scorn and derision of all the Churches around us. That these and the like dangers and mischiefs may be effectually prevented or turned away from us, is the hearty prayer of.
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