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to the purposes of universal benevolence : many of them might be unused to public speaking , and find it difficult to explain why they acknowledged the civility , and abstained from acknowledging the compliment with which it was so associated . They never imposed their
principles upon others , and were very thankful for the enjoyment of them to themselves . It was truly relieving to his mind , to have this social mark of kind attention offered in a way which was so unexceptionable . He could return his grateful acknowledgments for the kindness shewn him , without explanation : and he would conclude with
repeating the gratifying relief it afforded to his mind . Engaged in a public pursuit , public company was often a duty 5 but this marked attention to the religious scruples of the society of which he was a member , was to him the
highest indulgence he had ever met with . ; and he was highly gratified that this indulgence should have been shewn among an educated people , where knowledge had long taken root , and produced the action and re-action of cultivated
intellect , to improve us own powers . The relief to his mind was inexpressible . He hoped that public urbanity would remember the example . He believed the friends of his own society would feel the attention so paid to the free exercise of their religious freedom , even in what might be considered a minutia , as very
gratifying ; for his own part , he should feel a great pleasure , when going into public assemblies , to be able to come in , as a citizen of the world , as a friend of that cause which was so dear to the present company , without having to explain
the reason of the peculiarities of his religious scruples and practices . He was truly obliged by the honour done him and still more by the kind condescension apparent in the manner of doing it , for which he returned his thanks .
The British and Foreign Bible Society was drank with . rapturous feeling , as were the friends of the Royal Lancasterian System in London , Dublin , and Edinburgh ; and several sentimental toasts were given , independent of those which are merely customary .
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Manchester , April ' . 30 , 181 $ . m The Quarterly meetingpf Presbyterian ministers in this town and neighbourhood , ' was held on Gbod-friday at Chowbent , at the chapel of the Rev . B .
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R . Davis ; at which fifteen ministers were present . Mr . William Johns introduced the service , and Mr . Robert Sme- » thurst preached from Acts x , 34 , 35 . Mr J Grundy preached to a numerous
audience in the evening . An arrangement was formed by some of the ministers present , for supplying Congleton for a limited time . The number of gentlemen who dined with the ministers , amounted to more than forty , W . J .
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Unitarian Fund . We have the pleasure of reporting the Annual Meeting of the above society , which took place on Wednesday , the Z' th instant . In no particular did it
fall in pleasantness , and , it is hoped , in usefulness , below the preceding anniversaries ; in some , it exceeded them all 5 but as we have been so full in our account of the meeting in former years we shall content ourselves with a brief
account . The religious services of the day were conducted as usual in the chapel , Parliament Court , Artillery Lane , Bishopsgate Street . The Rev . T . Madge , of Norwich , introduced divine worship by prayer and reading the 2 d . chap , of the Acts of { he Apostles : the ad prayer was
offered up by the Rev . E . Butcher , of Sidmouth : and the Rev . W Severn , of Hull , preached the Sermon from % Cor . ii . 1 / . For zee are not as many which corrupt the ward of God , but as of sincerity , but as of God , in the sight of God speak we in Christ . The preacher made some wery judicious observations upon the
word of God , distinguishing between the word of God and the history cfit 9 and also upon the several ways by which the word of God is corrupted , as by mingling ¦ with it subtle speculations and unauthorised dogmas , and by not laying due stress upon its plain doctrines and moral precepts . He next pointed out the
course which it behoves the professors , and particularly the preachers of the gospel , to pursue in relation to their religious duties , shewing how the Apostles and primitive Christians were m Christ , and how the same character
maybelong to modern Christians . Here he w s led to consider the present state pf Unitarianismj and the exertions of Unitarians , confining ; himself particularly to the society before him . He pointed out several circumstances in the times favourable to Unitarian efforts , and amongst
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Intelligence . —Unitarian Fund . 337
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vojl * vii . 2 x
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/57/
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