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public mind there is much indifference , but the opinions of Geneva excite attention amongst the students and pastors and some of the people . Would the Unitarian Fund be willing to expend eight or ten pounds in this
good work ? I need not say that X should proceed economically and prudently , and that rny personal exertions would be willingly given . How I should rejoice and adore the wisdom of Providence , if my sickness should thus be rendered instrumental to the
introduction of divine truth into this extensive and enlightened empire P ' This was penned little more than two months before the death of the writer . We see , then , that to the latest period , his desire of usefulness remained in full vigour .
The proposal of Mr . Goodier to translate some of the English Unitarian tracts , into the French tongue , was laid before the general meeting of the Unitarian Fund , in 1818 , and was received with an unanimous feeling of approbation and of gratitude to this zealous and disinterested
advocate of truth . But some of the members of the Book Society , who were present , suggesting that the patronage of such a scheme belonged to that Society rather than to the Unitarian Fund , the meeting acquiesced ; and
the measure being brought forward at the first meeting of the Book Society ,, which was held after this period , it was resolved , that the sutn specified should be granted to Mr . Goodier for tlie accomplishment of his design , and that suitable tracts should be transmitted to him . The
speedy change in his health , followed by his melancholy decease , rendered these resolutions abortive ; but it may be hoped that the design will not be wholly abandoned . Almost with his
d ) ing breath , Mr . Coodier bore his testimony to the necessity and practicability of diffusing religious knowledge iti France , and the attempt would be the most congenial tribute of respect to bis memory . [ To be concluded in the next Number . ]
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zan , and his love of truth for its own sake would not allow him to subscribe to any human system of theology . He differed from the majority of modern Unitarians on the subject of the divine assistance in answer to prayer , and on the extent of the mediation and the efficacy of the death of Christ . On these and some other
points his opinions agreed with those of Mr . Locke ; he did not however borrow them from this great man , but was on the contrary , late in life , surprised as well as pleased to discover the coincidence .
His theological views cannot be better represented than by the following letter which he addressed to Mr . Aspland , the Secretary to the Unitarian Fund . He was a member of this society , and the letter grew out of some conversations in which
he had expressed an earnest wish to see the foundations of the society widened in order to embrace a greater number of such as are desirous of opposing the moral tendency of Calvinism . "My dear Sir ,
* 1 have often felt deep regret that a society which is formed upon such excellent principles , and with such liberal motives , has adopted a title that does not sufficiently express them , and has a tendency to irritate the niinds of those whom you wish
to convince , a hey are more disposed to resent your having assumed , a title of distinction which does not , in their opinion , exclusively belong to you , than to listen to your arguments . They argue , intheirturns , that , as you admit that a speculative opinion which
is not injurious to morals , is not of a damnable nature , you seem more actuated by a spirit of opposition , than of zeal to spread important truths . And it must be confessed that your exordium , as it now stands , is not
adapted sufficiently to remove these objections . It appears to me that a more extensive and more rapid success would be secured , were you more explicitly to state those other principles which you deem to be so closely connected with the doctrine of the Divine
Unity , and render it infinitely momentous . I would therefore propose that something analogous to tjie following should be inserted in your book of Rules at page 4 , after < intended to elevate them . * " * TJbe society have denominated
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Memoir of the late Dr . Coy an . ( Concluded from p . 5 . ) TTV 1 . COGAN was in the large JLJJ sense of the term an Unitarian , and was accustomed to join in Unitarian worship , though the habits of hijs mind prevented his being a parti-
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74 Memoir of the late Dr . Coyan .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1819, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1769/page/6/
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