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recover themselves , when their charges are disproved and they are convicted of ignorance or misrepresentation . In the S € Case of Great Importance , " signed by ten " Orthodox Ministers , " in October , 1817 , we are told that " in the year 178 V , the Rev ,
Mr . Cole , a professed Cedvinist , resigned . "—Verax affirms tfiat * € Mr . Cole always professed himsetf a Caltinist "— " Miss Elizabeth Newnham , of Birmingham , spinster , made oath that she was aged sixty-five years and upwards ; that she well knew the Rev . John Cole , and was on very intimate terms with him and his family , and was very frequently at his house ; that his religious doctrines ^ both in the pulpit and private discourse ,
were Calvinitfic . * ' * i These statements , which , in reality , have nothing to do with the great question at issue , were intended to show that there was no gradual change , no gradual progress of religious opinion , in the society j but that ** the Minister and Congregation were
decidedly Trinitarians , and that Trinitarian doctrines were inculcated till the yejar 1781 , at which time certain persons of Arian and Socinian tenets obtained possession f the chapel by stratagem . "f In , my reply to Verax , though I did not know
? See " Appeal to the Public * * Appendix , pag * SO * -t See a pamper , of which I mutt again declare my opinion that It reflects no credit on the judgment , the taste or the moral feelings of the individual by whom it was drawn up , in the Congregational Magazine for May , 1 S 18 , page 275 . I have called on the nine " Orthodox Ministers * verbose names are subscribed to that paper--Messrs . James , Scales , Steward , Hudson , Cooper , Dawaon , Berry ,
Hammond and Richards—either to prove that in the year 1731 , certain . pejsonji of Arian and Socinian tenets obtained possession of the chapel by stratagem , " or ingenuously and openly to retract the charge . "What am I to infer from their silence ? Shall I be forgiven if I say that , notwithstanding their belief to the contrary , ( " Appeal , " page 17 , ) there really la ' * another individual In the kingdom , besides Mr . Robertson , who suspects" their enlightened attachment to tbe great principles of religious liberty ? y >
Tn the Preface" of the Appeal to the Public , * the klne "Orthodox Minister * - ' speak of themselves ( page 5 ) ** as men whose word bj every one , besides tbeir accuser CMr . Robertson . ) would be received us their bond , " While I wa » reading :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 22, 1819, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1710/page/2/
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