Comfortable Words, native piety

Another example from the Hackney Phalanx, this time from Joshua Watson, of the place of the Comfortable Words in Anglicanism's native piety:

Again our Scriptural reading led him into quiet talk. It grieved him when, as by some writers is done, the love and mercy of God the Father in the work of redemption are obscured or forgotten, in the vain notion of thereby exalting the love and mercy of God the Son; representing the Father as a Being of stern justice alone, and attributing, as it were, different characters to the divine Persons: the "comfortable words" adopted into our Communion Service are alone sufficient to correct this error.

From Edward Churton, A Memoir of Joshua Watson (1863).

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