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    it might sfecm invidious hdre to j > krticUlarize . The reader who wishes for further information respecting thern , is referred to $ Ttison " s Rights of the Clergy , p . 108 r &c . or to Burn ' s EccleJ . Xiaw . ' *

    Nelsdn ^ whom none will suspect of aiT intention to disparage the clergy , gives such an accotfnt' of the ceremonies used on the occasion , as , if coming from a Dissenter , might have been suspected to have been the effect of what

    Mr . Christian , as quoted by JZ * B ., pronounces ct a vulgar error . " I will only oLserve , that he speaks

    6 f the person elected , as accepting the office after a little modest re . fusal : ' which is Something like riolo episcopari . But it is most probkble that since JVe / son V time , -even this'little modest refusal is

    grown out of use . I km , Yours , &c S . . P . P * $ « Observing in your 21 st p $ ge , a reference to that

    scandalous frfiucUV of interpolating the iOt | i article of the Church , to the truth or fjalsebpod of which (^ s 0 r . Furne ^ ux * observes ) the whole controvers y with the Dissenters

    xpfly be reduced I have thought it flight not be amiss to inform such of your readers as mdy not be acquainted with this curious fact ,, that some account is given of it in the late editions of the above Catechism , page 65 % 66 .

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    Th * % tal of Unitarians and of tfnitarian Societies not ill cforecttd . . Sib , Ja n * Slst , 1812-Thfc following passages are - * \ t . . i _ t _ - - m Letters to Biackstonc , p . 14 Q .

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    found in an 46 Inquiry into the irioral tendency of Methodism , &c . " by William Bxrrnf ( Part * i . 139 , 140 ) . As they appear aii exception to the discriminating Spirit by whicK the pamphlet is characterised , I request your indulgence for a few observations oil this pkrt of the writer ' s argument ,

    " Some individuals , and of late some societies , have attacked the popular opinions concerning the trinity and the atonement with sufficient boldness and zeal , but

    then it is only to set up other tenets respecting those subjects in their stead . Yet if it be true , as I think it is , that the fundamental

    principles of Christian piety and virtue are quite independent of auy system of opinion ? on these points , and may be maintained-irf consistency with either of them ; if true devotion consists in a just esteem for the moral character of

    God and of Jesus Christ , and in gratitude for those benefits which we enjoy under that peculiar scheme of providence and mediatorial government vyhicb Christianity displays ; if certain moral qualifications are necessary on our part , whatever * x > ay be the ipfluence of our Saviour ' s death , and

    if these qualifications can be defined ; then th& other differences are merely secondary matters . "" X . et the enlightened Christian oppose his zeal for these fundamental principles against the zeal which the Galyfnist and the

    Socinian manifest for their peculiar tenets . " Mr . Burnaremarks that ^ sbnie individuals and of late some societies , have attacked the pojfular opinions concerning ^ h 6 . trinity « , nd the atonerfient with sufficient b 6 ldne »» ttad zeal . " ' 2 jftt 7 I ftt-

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    The Zeal of Unitarians not ill directe d * 8 < 3 ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/25/