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I Will detain Mr . Etelshafri nd k > nger frofn hrs itnporfaht pursues , btrt offer him , though with grateful respect and ho small personal regard , this unavoidable dilemma .
On the Plan of an Unitarian Association * Sir , August 14 , J 812-I was very much gratified by reading in your Repository , ( p . 431 . ) a plan drawn up by a writer
signing bmvsclf An Unitarian Lay , man . The subject has been lotrg in my thoughts , and it was my in . tehtioa to have deque ' stt * d 3 our fn . delgence in communicatrrrg my ukv \ 9 to the Unitarian public , t am vety gtatfl to have been thtfs
anticipated . The plan in general Hi
Erasure , excuse me , if I take the K . berty of siting in what I think some lirtle a / Iteration necessary . The end proposed is A GeiiexsA Association oJall ih *> Unttatiatl
Societies throdghout England arirf W « le ( s . I approve of the c rtrf , but would extend it to the UnrturiariB in Great Britain . District associations are to
s ^ nd delegates , otte a minister the btber a layman . Tb tlnV T objecty for 1 Would lay no s ^ iclt restrwiiit M pott the ; asj > oci atfotV ' * &dk pevbopv oite delegate might be
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rlimight sufficient , Wlieth ^ h 6 # - ever , < me or twd be ^ ent , they sfhould be the ^ fffee choice of th 6 association , restrained within limitt of Another kitid , one 6 f which f
borrow ffotti the gospels , the othel from the Epistles of St . Paul . My Htints then would refer to age and sfittiatidh in life . With respect to thc ^ ofie , h 6 should not be under
thirtj' ye ^ ars of age ^ and to th $ other , he should be a tnarried man . I will not here enter upon arguments to Shew the propriety of these limits . Suffice it ' that the
apostate church , by excluding married then froiti offices , estab . hsfred in great iiiea * sure its abomi nable despoti ^ rti The proposer of the * pTati styles himself an Uilnafian Layman , whence I fear he is sfilJ involved in
those prejudices , in Which 1 was educated , and to wbteh 1 adhered wrth very great tenacity . In th 6 Oiristiari Church 1 know of no such distinction as laymen and ministers , atirf here as a Unitarian
Christian I make niy solemn protiebt agarrtst it , and exhort itoy brethren to be above all things € U rheiY gtiard against such * a rfisiihc * rion . Let it not appear in any of
rheir meetings . All aii ^ peupte in Christ ' s church , and the odious distinction of laity is the o ffspring of the apostate church . B ^ e > e not called Raht > i f" said ouf Saviour , fu hot
and we must be ve ^ l to c ^ lmit of a distinction whic h nv « # give to a « y oh ^ j a claim td fh ' at ritler / wnetner
Ir may w asked hett , ChYistiati cdmititinities ate to b $ wiriiout tttinidters ? By no m ^ where they cati mflLiutain Mi choose ttxhavedn ** frtitach ^ a ^ nrUktt-aiil < ofiftUtt | tto ^ h riot ***
