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Warfare , will convey no new ideas to you , or to any other of my friends in London , but it will shew the peculiar character of my method of procedure . . Towards the conclusion of last week , I found that my continuance at the
Cudworthian meeting house was precarious , fbr though the place was always crowded when I preached , yet intimations tf ere conveyed to me , that the Calvirtists were using every effort to get the doors shut against me . On Monday , the 4 th instant , as I have since learned ,
there was a private meeting of the orthodox ministers in and about Reading , to consult of the proper methods to prevent the growth of the Universal and Unitarian doctrines . Nothing particular has transpired concerning their determinations , but some warm Calvinists said , that 1 should soon be driven out of the
town . The proprietor of the Cudworthian place heara me on the first Sund ay three times , and also on the following Wednesday He publ ; cly declared , that I preached , as far as he had heard ftt ^ , n&thing but pure gospel . But he trebled to find that I was a Unitarian , wHi&h indeed ! had avowed to him and
to all others who had asked me . In fine , there is ^ no more access to that place . The proprietor has much grievea and offenaed most of his own religious friends . I am informed that only him : self and one or two more were on the negative side . Tfie rest * who with two «> rthree exceptions , are ptoor , pleaded hak ^ i for fey continuirtff to breach . — I
preached three times last Sunday , and notwithstanding the reports of the C Jviniststb frighten the people , the hbuse Was sdU ad full as on the first Sunday . — W ® 0 $ il *© every tifcf met parties , more or less numerous in which most of the Uiritarian doctvines huve been c&lmly debated among serious and enquiring persons , with ai > parcm satisfaction , and growiric- conviction of their fruiftV so
that , ge % erally frora ten ip the morning till ab ^ it twelve at ni ^ ht , I h ^ t h&nifr cbtift ^ ll ' ^^^ W words Mmtiijmfm ^ W ^* & *^ e $ iih felt ' %% | £ it ^ # f ^ ia ^ f ^ V ^^^^ ii ^^ l ^^ m ^ ltl ^ ^ wlll !^^ ' of ^ tie * ^ & \ ^ ^^^ t ^^^^ l *»\ i ^^^^ JI ^^^^^ b ^^^^* ^^^ ' ^^^^^ ir ^^^^ S ^^^^ i ^^^ jr ^^^^ v * ^^^ 3 f ^^^^ i ^^^^»^^ " ^^^^™ b ^^^^^^^^ f ^ t ^ ' ^^^^ ' ^^^^^^ t ^^** ^^ E t % ^^^^ ^^ ^^ r ^^^ &ii ^^^^^" ^ B ^^ d ^^ fU «^ 4 M ^ lpT * ' *^^' m f ^ n fr ^^ B ^ B ^ j' r w ^ m ' ^^ 1 ^ % * L ^^ S ^ JJ ^ T ^^ wMt \ k V ^ ** A'' *• ' fcjl ^ j' ^ tf ( P'i ^^^^ ' 4 < IT W ^ Uf ' ^\^ fo ¦ * * ^• ac ^ J ^ f ^ the ^ pfolongauour of my
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visit * The few Unitarians here ( I have not found more than twelve ) met : oil Monday evening to consult what < t | s best to be done in present circumstaoce % . l ' here was present the proprietor of a small meeting : house , which he lets to ja Calvinistic congregation , who are te »
a ants at will . He offered to / cquest ^ p loan of that place , at such time * as t& £ jF did not use it . He has daw so ; bv $ they have sent a written neg the , pleading conscience for their refusal . ^ pplV cation has been made to the Gtaafeers ^ but the spirit of liberality does not move them ,. —My host , formerly a Cudwor * thian , but Mrho has not for years past been into a place of worship , till I cam <» to Reading , means to try his influence
with the proprietor of the Cudworthiaa meeting * house , to open his place again ; but neither himself nor others think there is much hope of success .- —These effortg shew that zeal is not wanting in tijfc friends of rational Christianity at Read ^ ing- * —There is no large room in tl ^ e towri
that could be hired or bdrroWed . The town hall and the Lancasterlari . schooli would either of them do well j but sucft is the influence of Calvinism , ' botH iH church and meeting-house , thatt ixeiAjer of them can be obtained . Ther ^ ii . However , a theatre that will coutaid about ?" 5 OQ persons . It is used dnlyift §» ift >
teanbef arid October . It has feeen ptdfebsf % and if it could be P rpcdr 4 d T fi ' aW W doubt but Ihtt it would be '^ elT fflM ^ I know not that I sJalfip ^ Ve aify hffiii to preach in next Suhday , put ^ -ifjpdkn * ble , I mean to preach , at leikst in t $ e evenihjr , iri the thea | re .- ^ -Atiiriy ' r t&J ^ willnotrp \ ixin \ inh ^ iw ^ &i / if I e ^ M dos 5 trjen ; hit tnou ^ rli I d&&bi P ^ e ^ cil ^ yel I am e ^ plojeai T HlM ^ ift ^ W sortie go ^ d g&rlfoiie , in " coWv % fafio % *
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Extracts from the Report of tPie ' Unitarian Pund , 1812 . 7 & 9
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vol . yii . 5 a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1812, page 769, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1755/page/41/
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