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use them . They tell us we are accountable beings , but do not say we must change our religion . We are satisfied with what they do .
Brother ^ For these reasons we cannot receive your offers . W £ have other things to do , and beg you to make your mind easy , and not trouble us , lest our heads should be too much loaded , and , by and by burst .
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Mr . Wrights Reply to Questions on Church Discipline . Wisbeach , May 1 , 1812 . Sir , I still regard the declaration of the freedom of the Lord ' s Table ,
in the Unitarian churches at Glasgow and Edinburgh , as " a great triumph of Christian liberality over bigotry and narrow plans of discipline . To this your corres - pondent , who subscribes himself
An Unitarian , objects ; and calls upon me to answer several questions . ( See p . 153 . ) I should have paid an earlier attention to his remarks ami questions had leisure permitted .
Your correspondent is right in supposing , ** That every person who happens to be present when the Unitarians of Glasgow are
going to cat the Lord ' s supper , is at liberty , if he chuses , to join with them ; without any questions being asked , about what he be . lieves , or what are hfe motives
for so doing . " Before he objected to this , he should have been prepared to show that Christ has invested churches with authority to ait in judgment on the faith and motives of others , and to decide authoritatively whether they be so correct as to entitle them to a
place ait 111 * Lord ' s T&bte . But * tMld fcor * uth authority-imply
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dominion over faith and co * i ~ science ? Paul ' s advice to the church at Corinth * when they had attended to the Lord ' s
Supevery one should examine himself ^ and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup : beyond this neither he nor any of the apostles , nor
per in s * very disorderly manner , was not that they should examine and scrutinize each other , nor that they should ' act as a court of inquisition upon the faith and motives of others , who might wish * to join with them ; but that
even Christ himself , authorized Christians to go . The very act of earning to the Lord ' s- Supper is an expression of faith io Christ ; the motives which influence men to do
it , can be correctly known to God only , to him alone are they accountable * The church nt Glasgow thinks it sufficient , to have the nature of the Lord ' s Supper ex . plained , to exhort men to examine
themselves and so partake of it : beyond this they claim no authority : and those who do , ought to establish their claim by the New Testament , before they sit in judgment * on others ,, and to
beware , lest $ hey be found usurping the prerogatives of Jesus Christ , lording it over their brethren , and taking a rank t however humble , in the family of Antichrist * Paul ' s
question + Who art thoutkat jvdg . r- * H ^ another ' s servant f may be justly put to all those who usurp the authority of sitting in judgment on the faith and motives of
Others . ¦ ¦ ¦ I will now answer ycror correspondent ' s questions * 1 admit that i *• there were some persons formerly called brethren , -with'whom th «
apostle Paul would not allow the churches fee planted to ? -eat % "> but
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* « ¦ ¦ 314 Mr . Wright * s Reply to Questions on Church Discipline *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/34/
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