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discourses , and proposed a practical imjbrovenient of < he whole , by explaining and inculcating the religious regards due to JeSus ^ Chrtst , onthegrotind of his character and oittces ; previously observing that they jrse from the Divine commiss ion under which he acted , and terminated fe the ^ gTory and honour of God the
Father , frdm whom he received all his powera , aad whose counsels of love and grace he executed . These religious regards were stated to consist in obedience to'his precepts , in the imitation of his example * in cherishing sentiments of love and gr atitude towards him , in an attachment to his cause and zeal in promoting
it , in a pre ' vaihngr view to him , as the minister of the divine mercy , in all the acts of religious worship , and in entertaining the expectation of his second coming . The venerable Dr ' s . attractive sirhplicity , and truly' Christian and
devotional strains through the whole of ha ? discourse ^ es pecially towards the close of it , excited great invest in the audience ., if the writer may judge from his own feelings , and the fixed attention of all arc « Lind him . Thus the con * -
clusion of this Anniversary was highly pleasing , for , as strongly expressed by one of his hearers , the good Dr . " introduced us to heaven . " $£ terthe morning service the business ' of the Society was transacted , and there * ta&s an addition of several new members .
> * The ministers and members dined together , and the afternoon was spent in s %£ eeable fconversation on the general ^ fflfcerests of religion . Dr . Tdulmin , not ^ ttfeout emotion , gave a short history -of the rise and progress of Unitarian IVact Societies , which are -now so ex-¦ t&isively established ; and the account tos-received with marked attention and pleasure by the company . ' - ? • ; ' Eve $ ham > June 19 th , I&l $ . v I >
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Winutit 'Meeting' of the Wtstefn " xTntftafian Book Society , ' - ^ ha Animal Meeting of the We& ^ e it n ^ fR btmtfnsi AZ * ^ Society "forth * Mffutitofovf Qhrisiian Knowledge by the 'tfis-& * hutum of Books , " was-held on
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lages . Fifteen ministers were present , and a most respectable and attentive auditory . The morning service was ir 1 tr 6-duced by the Rev Joseph Hunter , of Bath , uho offered up the introductory prayer , and read the i ^ jst Psalm , and the and chapter of the Acts of the Apostles . The general prayer was given by
the Re / . Mchael Maurice , of JLowestoffe , in Suffolk , and the Rev . Robert Asp ' and , of Hackney , delivered a discourse upon that great P / otestant principle , ** the right of private judgment in religious matters " clearly shoeing , that the fullest liberty o ; ' th nking , speaking and writing ou ^ ht te * be alk > we 4 ? - «^ fc - *** ty to the various sects of Christians , but also to sceptics and even to the oppnsers of the Christ 3 n faith : / he text was
Rom ns xiv . 5- " JLet every man be fully persuaded in his own mind . " The hymns were read by the Rev . Thomas Midge , of Norwich . After the morning service the Society met for business The Rev . Edmund Batcher , of Sidmouth , was called to the char : the minutes of the
meeting held at Exeter , the preceding vear , were read by the Secretary , the ReV John Rowe , of Bristol , and confirmed : — 'Other business was then transacted : ~ the meeting for next year appointed ^ o be hi Id at Taunton , and the Rev . Jqseph Hunter fixed upon as the preacher : More than twenty new members weVe
admitted , and together with the did members who were present , and eorhe visiting friends , par-ookof an ecortofrifdal dinner . Fifty-five persons sat down to tafele , and afier the cloth was removed , a great deal of interesting converfeat i <^ i ^ relative to the objects arid plan of the So *
ciety took place several useful hints were thrown out . and much future good may be expected from the exerlions that villbemade , if they , in any tolerable degree , correspond with the ardour and unanimity with vthich all present apr peared to be animated . ^ ••"• , -.
In the evening service the Rev . Robert Aspland prayed ; the hymns were given out by the Rev . Henry Davies , of Tiufti * ton , and the Rev l homas Madgt ? delivered a trnly scriptural iUUsfcration of the words of the Apo « tlcr Pairli which occur in the Epistle to the £ phe ^ iang ^ - " ii . 8 , 9 . ** For ? try grate arcryd saved , through faiirti ; tknd tha * nopiw $ yoor * selves : it i * trie gif t of Gdd , not of ^ srflrlti ^ lest any man should boa * t : ' < Tfie nihn object of / ihfe discourrc ^ a * , w « ho |*| i l » t tl ^^ taMtom
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Intelligence—Meeting of the Western Unitarian Book Society . 4 &&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/57/
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