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and to have made some remarks upon the efficacy of the instrument which he seems to long to use in the conversion of Dissenters , namely , " excommunication . 3 > I can do no more , however , than refer your readers who are desirous of understanding this subject to the tracts and pamphlets written by
Archdeacon Blackburne , from which I remember I caught my first light on church matters * I have gone further , you see , than my guide * I always pitied the Archdeacon , who was convinced the Church of England was corrupt and antichrist ian , and yet from early prejudice could not make up his mind to leave it * His story reminds me of that of an old friend of
mine , a native of an unhealthy part of Essex , who , though . he was afflicted with a perpetual ague , in consequence of the humidity of the air in his neighbourhood , could never be prevailed on to quit it , and died a martyr to the love of his natal
soil . But lam wandering . Story-tellings I am aware , is not argument * I never wrote so long a letter before * I have been drawn on imperceptibly by my subject . I hasten to conclude . You know enough , perhaps , of the Bishop ' s ft Principles ; ' * more , I am sure , than you expected to learn , and more almost than you can give credit to in any modern prelate . I myself
have been used to such principles , and to such men as their author , all my life ; and I have made it my constant endeavour ( I am proud to say it , ) for a great number of years , to humble the one and to explode the other . In prosecution of the same design , I have now taken up my pen against Bishop Burgess , and shall always be , as I always have been , Your ' s to command , London , Sept . 3 , 1806 * Go cm Agog .
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• WANT OF ZEAL IN UNITARIANS . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , Much has lately been said upon the popularity of Calviriisiti , and the opposite state of the Unitarian doctrine . It cannot be denied , that the causes which operate in favour of the former are neither few nor inconsiderable in their weight ; but to account for the popularity of Calvinism is not , I conceive ,
sufficient to account for the unpopularity of Unitarianism . We must seek some other cause ; and this cause , I think , will be discovered in that disinclination to zealous , active , and wellcombined efforts , which is so strikingly characteristic of the tJnitarians as a body . Almost the only thing that has been done by them is the institution of societies for diflasing the
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Want of Zeal in TJnitarians . * 641
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/25/
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