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It might have been provoked, although not justified, by tirades no less furious and unreasoning on the part of some of the assailants of the Methodist cause.But since the barrier remained a slight one, perhaps, but one which they felt they could not pass might they not at all events render a partial allegiance to the national worship, by occasional attendance at its services, and by communicating with it now phase detector pll and then? The question, especially under the circumstances of the time, was none the less important for its simplicity.No measure for Church comprehension on anything like a large scale is ever like to fulfil its objects, unless the whole of the question with all its difficulties is boldly grasped and dealt with in a statesmanlike manner.'Some will kneel at the Sacrament, some phase detector pll stand, some perhaps sit some will read this part of the Common Prayer, some that some, perhaps, none at all.Their aims were exalted, their labours noble, the results which they achieved were immense.Alterations, however, of this kind, although they may constitute a very important part of a measure of Church comprehension, will rarely, if phase detector pll ever, prove sufficient to fulfil in any satisfactory manner the desired purpose.They were to be careful not to make divisions, not to baptize, nor administer the Lord's Supper.It would infallibly have been a phase detector pll slipshod comprehension.It would be a disastrous consequence of efforts pressed inopportunely in the interests of peace if the ancient Church of England were rent in twain.Outram's in Lombard phase detector pll Street.'Those,' wrote Mosheim in 1740, 'who are best acquainted with the state of the English nation, tell us that the Dissenting interest declines from day to day, and that the cause of Nonconformity owes this gradual decay in a great measure to the lenity and moderation that are practised by the rulers of the Established Church.How was it possible for them to hold out a right hand of fellowship to one phase detector pll who would say, for example, that 'the scarlet whore of Babylon is not more corrupt either in principle or practice than the Church of England' Such language inevitably widened the ever increasing gap.'I will not hear this formalist, says one and I will not hear that schismatic (with better reason), says another.There were of course many men of extreme views on either side to whom, if there had been no such thing as a Test Act, the practice of occasional conformity was phase detector pll a sign of laxity, wholly to be condemned.