Note 1168 — PART IV. From the Reformation to the present time. (continued 8)

Here we must own that the service in our churches, defective as it is in many respects, has yet greatly the advantage over that of our meeting houses in regard to the reading of the scriptures; for large portions of them are there read every time: and even in the cathedral service we may find a nearer resemblance of the primitive practice than in most dissenting chapels, in the frequency of the administration of the Lord’s supper, which is there administered weekly, as it was in the first age, and a good while after. There is something very queer and whimsical in the lunatic administration of that ordinance in most dissenting congregations as well as parish churches.