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of their ' s are to be called-prejudices , they are prejudices which ought to be respected ; since they appear to have been generated by adhering to the declarations of the New Testament in the most literal and express meaning *
I have given this brief account of their opinions and the principles on which they are founded , in order to draw on them the attention of some of your intelligent correspondents * I am not myself of the Baptist persuasion , and I presume , therefore , that remarks on their dogmas would come better recommended from some of their Baptist brethren , ^ ho , though agreed with them in their sentiments on the subject and mode of baptism ,
yet do not think they are thereby prohibited from joining with other Unitarian Christians in acts of social worship , and some of whom do not suppose baptism is indispensably necessarv asi a term of Christian communion . As then this is , what may be termed a . family dispute , I recommend the discussion of it te those who more immediately constitute the family , hoping that it will terminate in the promotion of truth , and in drawing mor $ closely the bonds of Christian union . Iam ^ Sir ^ your ' s , Hull , Aug . 8 , 1806 . Sabrina *
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REMARKS ON ORTON ' s LETTERS , LATELY PUBLISHED BY MR . PALMER . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , In the second volume of Orton ' s Letters to Dissenting Ministers , published by S . Palmer , p . 21 . there is the following paragraph : — " I have lately read Mr . Holland ' s charge and the pieces that accompany it . I think Mr . Godwin , in his sermon , has given a very unfavourable account of the temper and character of our Non-conforming fathers for the last fifty
years , longer than which I can remember . I am sorry to find my friend Holland sinks the inspiration of the apostles and their epistles lower than I think he can justify . I have freely written to him on thesubject . " * # # *
Without doubt , Mr . Editor , the subject of inspiration is one of the most important in theology . Till divines are agreed respecting what degree of authority is due to the sacred volume * whether a plenary inspiration was exerted over the Holy
Scriptures—whether the writers were preserved only from errors of note—or whether no supernatural divine influence was exercised over their minds but when they affirmed doctrines or sentiments above the power of man to reveal or deliver , and when fbey predicted future events—other disputes cannot easily be
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Remarks on Qrtotfs Letter ' s . 46 %
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 463, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/15/
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