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Western Unitarian Society . The Annual Meeting of this Society was held at Bristol , on Wednesday , the 21 st of June . The devotional services were conducted by the Rev . Dr . Estlin and the Rev . T . Howe , and Rev . W . J . Fox , of Chichester ,
preached from Acts xxviii . 22 . " As concerning this sect , we know that every where it is spoken against /' The object of the preacher was to display the fallacy and injustice of several of the popular charges against Uttitarianism , —charges which are in
some cases utterly inconsistent with each other , and which are universally founded on very erroneous views either of the doctrines of Unitarian ism , or of the motives and reasonings of its advocates . The discourse was alike
eloquent and argumentative > and the powerful iinpressiveness of it was obviously and strongly marked in the tixed attention with which it was universally heard . Some passages could not fail to excite a peculiar interest in the minds of those who
recollected that the preacher had known what it is to be involved in the gloomy thraldom of Calvinism , and had , from full conviction , embraced the grand doctrines of the unpurchased mercy and unrivalled supremacy of the God and Father * f our Lord Jesus Christ . At the unanimous and earnest request of
the Society , ]\ lr . Fox consented to the publication of the discourse ; and the perusal of it will , we feel assured , * good reason for our hope that the zeal and abilities which it displays , will be increasingly employed to promote the spread of the great truths M J ? ifc advocated In the evening Mr . Fox conducted the devotional
ser-V 1 ce and Dr . Carpenter preached At the close of the morning service ne usual business of the Society was reacted , and several new members ^ nutted . It was resolved to hold the 1 ^ ^ ntlual Meeting at Dorchester , w % ii possible , on the third Wed-» esday in j une . the appointment of
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the Preacher was referred to the Committee at Bristol . —A proposal was made to employ part of the funds of the Society , in the reprinting of works which , if not peculiarly suited to the immediate object of the Society , would be more likely to obtain
general circulation than books directly Unitarian , and which might have great efficacy in weakening the influence of religious bigotry , and at least preparing for the diffusion of our
principles ; such , for instance , as Bishop Taylor ' s Liberty of Prophesying , Whitby ' s Last Thoughts , &c ^ but the proposal was withdrawn on the representations of Mr . Rowe and others , that it was undesirable to
burdeu the Society with a stock , which might prevent the employment of its funds in a method more directly within its scope and object . A gentleman present , however ,
suggested that what could not be well done by the Society , might by individuals ^ and he liberally offered the loan of lOOZ . towards accomplishing the object , if others could be found to
unite in it . * When the Society met last year at Yeovil , the proceedings of the Committee led the General Meeting to consider by what means they might best mark their warm and grateful sense of Mr . Rowe ' s unremitting and very important exertions for the
welfare of the Society , from the period of its removal to Bristol in 1804 , —in aiding in the duties belonging to the Treasurer and the Secretary , in the general objects of the Society , and in the conduct of the Annual Meetings , which he had uniformly attended , and to the interest and proper direction of which he had so essentially
contributed . It was finally determined to present to him , in the name of the Society , a copy of the Fac Simile of Beza ' s Manuscript , and ( as soon as published , ) of Mr . WellbelovecTs Family Bible , each with an
appropriate inscription . At the present meeting Mr . Rowe , while he expressed his satisfaction at the approbation of his services to the Society which their vote had manifested , declared his determination to decline the proposed testimonial of it * About sixty gentlemen afterwards
* If any friends of free inquiry are disposed to countenance this object , they are requested to address a few lines on thj& subject to the Biev . Dr . Carpenter , Exeter *
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NOTICE . Dr . Estlin is about to publish a Unitarian Christian ' s Statement and Defence of his Principles , in reference chiefly to the Charges of tbe Bight Reverend the David
Lord Bishop of St . ' s—a discourse delivered at the Annual Meeting- of the Unitarian Society in South Wales , at Ltengyn < * eirn > ltl Carmarthenshire , on Thursday , July 6 , 1815 , and published at their request .
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iTbtelliffence . —Western XTnitarian Society * 45 Q
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/59/
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