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vim £ to is uni | B 6 rt > ly niaiat ) aiaed . odist meetings . I will hot unwell take to say , whether they are Arminian or Galvinistic , for I
scarcely ever ' attended them , and indeed , I believe , the distinction , so cornmoh in this country , be . tiveen the Wesleian and tfie Wffcitfieldiah Methodists ij ^ ver y little known in ours * At least , in com .
rhon with the Baptists they are decided Trinitarians , and both pray , and preach as if this were a doctrine absolutely essential to Christianity ^ *? ffi& * %€ * tikfeil ^ is iibt consistent with your friend ' s very wide declaration , that ie he did not think there were two
persons in Boston , who believer m the Trinity . " Yriu see , that of our twenty-one churches , there are seven , at least , that are Calvinistic , or Trinitarian , Indeed , yptt wftoW WIMfy Jobk for thiitartanisrfi arnong our Methodists o / mpfisfe ; . ¦¦" ¦ ¦¦ *
ttut it 1 * , 1 presume ^ to the cohgjfegiatlonal churches , that y&tir friend ' s account must chiefly ifeifeh With the ministers of these I a : m well acquainted . I have always heard \ ieiv ^ re ^ c&tng , ' & 0 $ & > student of divinity , I cdristktitly attertded for two or three ^ esfifs
thfeir monthly meetings , tohen th&y frequently ^ dnvef rs e upon thei r religious opinions . This cc AsstwH . Jiti ^ n" is compb ^ ed not orily ' afc
ftie riiinisters bf Boston , but df ieVerkl of the neighbouring t 6 wris . Of Ihese gentlemen , about twenty fti number , there is 6 ulty - / tt | ife , whom , frdte atay thing I evfefh ^ W W * &fer ^ Mier iix $ nVi ^ TiiPia " fes ^ til ^ t , \ & 4 W ^ f vvouldliWa tight tci ^ H ^ ltPHftiu tirittn . feV ^ ia Iffiis gen ^ ifha ^ ,. « Bto
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Was in Boston , did not preach ^ M ^ i ^ % ^^ l # ^ Eif ^^^ . ; 7 I rre # rhearcihrtn ^ f ) fe « siticRvi ^ % of the person of Christ , anil it was rather from inference , that I could sky he held them . Many of his
people are widely different from him ; and , with the exception of ¦<^ - ^ . thlie ^ or , at most , four or Jive hea '^ ts of families ^ I may safely say , that there is scarcely a parishioner in Boston , who would ritft be shocked at hearing his
minister preach the peculiarities of Unitarianism . Thfefe is oii < & fcrhareh in Boston , which fe ^^ re % fe ^ ^ ^ kid to be founded on Unitarian principles . Dr . Freeman , of King ' s Chapel
wfth his church , about thirty j / ears ago , adopted an amended Liturgy . But if you wfll admit , what Mk Beishaifti ^ sfelf very fai rly stated , cc thatt no ^ ati Cen justly be called by ttf # teiifettTfc # tt ^ lihfe ^ he he bt
, wttfiyig ^ and ( if a mfMyter ) to k ^ ert ^« ae ^ rlfe , ^ | i ^ » Mknowledge hirns ^ lf of tHKt pftitfi " Dr . Freeman can hkMly be c ^ isiderfed as an exception to the great
majority bf his brtthxen * For though on other subjects he is as exriiicit atia linreserVfed , as he is sibfe and intelli ^ ertt , I ttevfer heiard hrrh express dh Unitarian
sentiment ; dtrtl'l believe , he ; carefully avoids it in the pttl p it , because it Wight unnecessarily disturb some 4 ttFStel ! iearehl . —There fe noiv , bne
more'gehtleihan ih Boston , < Vho with his intimate friends mfty , perhaps , be considered an Unitarian ; but he maintains the same cautious reserve ; and , from neither his ser-WdM ^ hi ^ pdSy ^ , nWfoz private (conversattori , could 4 iriftr , that "m ^ m kti UhMn ^ h 7 ~ 19 oW ^ ven aam % tiiig , ^ vhat 1 har ^ dlVtWiik I
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gfeb IntelHgjfrice *—Unitarianism in Africa .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/64/
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