1. Speedily will be published, by the famè Author, Publications relative to the Diffenters, in a Letter to Dr. Priestley, by a Diffenter.. 2. An Address to Proteftant Diffenters, on the Subject of CHURCH DISCIPLINE Printed for JOSEPH JOHNSON, in Pater-Nofter-Row. Alfo published, In Numbers, at the Interval of about two or three Months, (Under the Direction of Dr. PRIESTLEY) The THEOLOGICAL REPOSITORY; confifting of Original Effays, Hints, Queries, &c. calculated to promote Religious Knowledge. Likewife juft published, 1. A Free Address to Protestant Diffenters, as fuch. By a Diffenter, 1s. 6d. 2. The Prefent State of Liberty in Great-Britain and her Colonies. By an Englishman, 6d. ADDITIONS то тн Е ADDRESS to PROTESTANT DÍSSENTERS on the Subject of the LORD'S SUPPER, with fome Corrections of it. REFACE, p. 13. PREFA I have had occafion to make from the Fathers are copied, with little or no variation, from Dr. King's Conftitution of the Primitive Church; and therefore I have not made any reference to their own works, as I should have done, if I had examined them, or pretended to examine them felf. (a) B my P. 17. (a) The author of the Proteftant Diffenters Anfier to my Address, difcovers a want both of candour, and of an acquaintance with the cuftom of writers in his animadverfions on this fubject, p. 131. No writer, I believe, who had occa fion P. 17, 1. 1. and as I fhall, alfo, endeavour to take in every other confideration that can throw light upon the fubject, you will, by this means, fee, &c. 1. 14. i. e. Let this wine bring to your remembrance my death and fufferings. As this event completes the scheme by which finful men are to be reformed, and restored to the divine favour; my blood may be faid, (in allufion to the facrifices under the law) to be fhed for the remiffion of fins. P. 24, 1. 1. (b) that is, let him examine his real views and motives, and confider that, &c. fion to quote a common fact in the English history would think of mentioning the hiftorian, or the collector of history, from whom he copied it. In this cafe I could least of all expect to fucceed as a plagiary, if that had been any object with me, when the book I made ufe of is almost in every body's hands. There is, at leaft, hardly any diffenting minifter, of my acquaintance, who is not poffeffed of it. P. 30. P. 30, 1. who are arrived at years of 7: difcretion, and whofe lives are fuch as give no juft reason to question their fincerity. P. 31, 1. 3. is by no means neceffary, but may be expedient, with respect to thofe perfons who may be fufpected of a defign to impofe upon them. Were the nature of the inftitution univerfally underftood, and no impofition intended, this action itself would be the declaration, &c. P. 32, 1. 16. or rather, it is a profef fion, &c. P. 33. (6) Notwithstanding the Lord's Supper be properly a profeffion of a man's being fimply a chriftian; christianity in general, and this inftitution of it in particular, may be fo corrupted, that a fincere christian ought in confcience to refrain from joining in the celebration of it. In the church of Rome, the fervice is fo cons ducted, that I believe it is impoffible to communicate without being guilty of idola A Proteftant, therefore, might as try. B 2 well well burn incenfe to an idol, as receive the eucharist at the hands of a Romish priest. P. 34, 1. 4. I anfwer, that every chriftian fociety hath a clear right to refuse admiffion to those whom they believe not to be chriftians; and those whofe conduct is fuch, as gives just reason to question their fincerity, though, in words, they profefs themselves fuch; as also, those who are guilty of fuch vices as are a scandal, &c. 1. 20. excommunicated, and at the fame time excluded from their public afsemblies, as well as the Lord's Supper; being confidered as perfons unfit for their fociety or company. Since the confequence of excommunication was exclufion from their religious affemblies altogether, I do not fee that they had any idea of the Lord's Supper being more facred, folemn, or awful than any other part of the fervice. The idea of fuch a difference in thofe ordinances, as could lead them to think there might be a propriety in attending 3 upon |