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English Church at Rotterdam; we shall pro- 

 ceed to give an account of a much nobler work 

 he was engaged in with regard to the foreign 

 Protestant Churches, and that was the intro- 

 duction of the Liturgy of the Church of England 

 i?ito the kingdom of Prussia. An account whereof 

 may be the more acceptable, because none of 

 the steps taken therein have been as yet made 

 public. 



The Protestant subjects of the kingdom of 

 Prussia consist partly of Lutherans, and partly 

 of Calvinists ; which latter call themselves the 

 Reformed; the word Calvinist being disagreeable 

 to them, and consequently used only by such 

 as are not their friends. 



Frederick King of Prussia had found it neces- 

 sary, for the greater solemnity of his corona- 

 tion, in 1700, to give the title of bishops to two 

 of the chief of his clergy, the one a Lutheran, 

 the other a reformed. The former died soon 

 after; whereupon the other, viz. Dr. Ursinus, con- 

 tinued without a colleague, and with the title of 

 bishop. Since that time the king, who was a 

 lover of order and decency, conceived a design 

 of uniting the two different communions in his 

 kingdom, the Lutherans and the reformed, in 

 one public form of worship. And as he had a 

 great respect for the English nation and Church, 

 and held a good opinion of the Liturgy of the 



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