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some account of the Unitarians in Transylvania ; though I confess I am not surprised at the silence of iyour correspondents ; for where nothing is known there is nothing to tell . I suspect that the author of " The Religious World display
ed , " was himself acquainted with Professor JVJarkos ' s book only at second hand , and even that is higher authority for a quotation , than I tear most of our sectogrci phers are able to produce .
In Maty ^ s New Review for the year 1783 ( Vol . IV . p . 477 ) , I find a brief account of the following work : * Transilvania , sive magnus Transilvama ? principatus olim Dacia Metliterranea dictus , orbi nondum satis cognitus , Nunc multifariam ac btricfim illustratus .
Auctore Josepho Benko , Transilvnno-Siculo , &c . Tom . 52 . 8 vo . Vindobinae , 1778 . " 4 1 'he account of Unitarians , " says Maty , " takes up from p .
215 top . 229 of vol . 2 . We have here a short abridgment of their history , their confession of faith , and their church government . In the year 1776 , their numbers were 28 , 697 > and their churches
117-This assessment gives upwards of 253 persons to a congregation ; according to which rate , Professor Marios represents them as upwards of 40 , 000 in number in 1787—an increase of more than ] 1 , 000 c in eleven years .
44 There is a supplement to the workj ' * adds JMaty , " which contains some curious things about the Unitarians , particularly with respect to tbeir coming into
Transylvania , taken from a manuscript tract , entitled , Notanda quccdam < jic frqfribus e JPolonia exulibusj " If ttiis wcfjrk could be procured ,
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perhaps a translation of it , or at least of the substance of the information relating * to Unitarians , would be acceptable on your pages . JUVENIS .
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Mr . Matthews on the new Unitarian Academy , Bath , Aprils , 1812 . Sib , Having read and considered the circular letter , containing "The
Resolutions of the Fr ' ends of the Unitarian cause , and the plan of the new Unitarian Academy , ' * I would beg leave to offer a few re * marks thereon , through the medium of the Monthly Repository . The reasons assigned for
attempting such , an establishment , I presume will be generally approved , and the object deemed highly worthy of encouragement . The commencement of the subscription is auspicious > and we may hope the result of due endeavours to
extend it will be—complete success * But the accomplishments , and the public benefit , may not be so speedy in their arrival as we could wish . In the mean time , it concerns the friends of the
Unitarian cause , to be doing all they can for its advancement , if they believe , as I trust they do , that it is the reviving , growing cause of primitive Christianity . The scri ptural admonition to believers fo r *
meily was , that they should be "diligent in business ^ fervent in spirit , serving the Lord : * ' and though some professed believers in our days are prone to call in
question any good effects of Unitarian fervency , or religious exertion , yet is this no good reason why its advocates should be discouraged , or why , they should not be zealfrus in promoting the practice pf l / ni-
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506 Mr . Matthews on the new Unitarian Academy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/26/
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