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selves in speaking of our Saviour to Mr * BelshanVs language , namely , that •* our Saviour is in no other way dislinguished from his brethren , than as being the greatest of all the prophets of God , the revealer of life and immortality , the first begotten from the dead j" I am sorry that they fall short of what appears to me to be a very important feature in his character , namely , that through him the gift of immortal life is conveyed to us . He is not merely the revealer of a future life , but the giver of it under Cod , having received this commission from the Father . * But a discussion on these subjects would carry us from the point in question . The Unitarians are now a numerous body in England ; and there were Unitarians long before Dr .
Lardner or Mr . Belsham gave any account of them . Mr . Belsham says , that he has adopted Dr . Lardner ' s definition of them . This I doubt : but if it is so , then I maintain , that Dr . Lardner does not do the Unitarians justice .
The authority of Dr . JLardner ' s name adds little weight in my estimation to this controversy . He is an excellent compiler , and may be used with great advantage as a guide to young students . But I shall not be carried
away by the authority of any name . My position in opposition to Mr . Belsham ' s is , that all are Unitarians , who believe that God is one , incapable of division into persons , and consequently Jews and Mahometans are Unitarians . But when we speak of
Unitarians , we generally speak of them as Christians , without reference to the controversy between Christians and Jews , or Christians and Mahometans . If we u ere to use precision , we should sdy Unitarian Christiana * when we speak of those who believe God to be one , incapable of division into
persons , and that Christ is our Lord and Saviour . With respect to the Unitarian Christians Mr . Belsham thinks , that they must disbelieve certain articles of faith which he lays down . This disbelief in my opinion is not warranted either by the name of Unitarians , or by the opinions of a large body of persons , among whom 1 am one , who go under this name in this kingdom . I remain , Sir , Your very obedient , W . FHEND .
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484 Religious Visit to Hannah Barnard *
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Religious Visit of a Company „/ " Friends " to Hannah Barnard . Sir , Brotnley , July \ o igu I OT ^ X Tm . •/ J * yJ lyJm SENT you an extract of a letter from Hannah Barnard , which was inserted at p . 321 of the present volume . If the following account from
the same letter ofa singular " religious " visit paid her by several ministering Friends , be deemed proper to present to your readers , it may amuse some and instruct others . It exhibits a curious , and I have no doubt a faithful picture of that species of fanatical
enthusiasm which is still found among the Quakers . If this were a solitarv instance of such ignorant but presumptuous claims to a divine mission , it might be better to consign it to
oblivion ; but as I have much reason to believe similar pretensions are yet not only frequently set up , but countenanced by those who are appointed by the Society to have the oversight of its Ministers , no suitable occasion of
exposing and discouraging such uncharitable and blind bigotry should-be lost . Perhaps a more striking example of zeal without knowledge , awed into silence , by a union of good sense and of Christian charity , seldom
occurs W . ishing it may produce its proper effect on such of your readers , as it may most concern , I am your and their well-wisher ,
THOMAS FOSTER . " Pray how do the Orthodox part of the Society carry themselves toward thce ? I should like to know whether they pursue thee as they still at times do me , literally as a * Heathen and an InfideV 1 have often said it would
have been a great satisfaction to me , to have had the company of fifty of my most intelligent neighbours and friends present on the evening of the 20 th of June last . I was called from a house of mourning—and informed there were some friends wished to
call on us that evening . I told the messenger—* we shall be at home . Accordingly , they came , four in number ; an d I have great satisfaction in saying , that one of them , Wm .
Plainer , a tall fine looking man from Ohio , approved himself through the whole , the true Christian gentleman . Wc first very politely introduced himself and the other three by name . Aft * * taking seats , he asked me which was
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/20/
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