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perneth us ) actually \< 4 dmit him unto the said Charge , th ^ re to per form e ail the offices and duties of a faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ . In witnesse whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names this Fifth—day of February—Anno Doni . 1649 . James Nalton of Leonards church in
Foster lane . Roger Drake Minister of Michael ! [ Cornhili ] Querne . Arthur Jackson . George flawler ( Fawler ) Minister of Bridwell London . Guil : [ William ] Jenk ; yn pastor of Chtch tdo [ Christ Church do , }
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of the claim , and grant the pecuniary aid which the case may require , and the state of the general Fund admit , resembling in this respect " the Widows' Fund , " and the Society lately established u for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Protestant Dissenting
Ministers /* The common stock may be supplied by the regular remittance of the annual amount of the Fellowship Funds of our respective societies . This , together with the subscriptions of individual Unitarians , -would , I
doubt not , render the Fund adequate to all the purposes for which it is designed . Thus would general aid and co-operation be effected , most favourable to the success of the cause of pure Christianity . *
It may be proper , however , to observe , that the establishment of a Fellowship Fund in every congregation of Unitarians ( though a desirable object } is not necessary to the formation of the plan of a general co-operation among them . This purpose would be
answered by each society among us , in whatever mode the subscriptions be raised , annually contributing to the common stock . Should the proposal now made meet the views of the gentlemen of the Unitarian Fund in London , their concurrence in promoting it , would , I doubt not , ensure
its success ; and its advantages to our common cause , would , I am persuaded , abundantly compensate , in their estimation , the additional trouble which might hereby devolve upon them . The communication of their proceedings from time to time , through the medium of the Monthly Repository and Christian Reformer , to the ge +
* The co-operation now proposed is hetween all those professing- Christians who believe that there is one Being only who is self-existent , eternal , independent and unchangeable , possessed of every possible perfection , the sole object of religious worship , namely , the Parent of universal nature , the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ . This includes both the persons who maintain , and those also who reject , the tenet of the p re-existence of Christ , whilst they are agreed in the grand principle just stated ; the principle on which ( hey claim to themselves the title of Unitarians ; a title now given to them by the Legislature , though refused by some fef their less liberal fellow-chrfatian **
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Bridport , Sir , January 1 , 1819 » ONSIDERING Fellowship Funds Cas wfell calculated to contribute to the permanent support of pure
religion ; both to promote the genuine spirit of Christian fellowship among the members of our respective societies , and also to unite these C ^ present too much detached from one
another ) into a general body , I cannot but deem this Institution an auspicious era in the history of Unitarianism . Union is strength , and the cordial co-operation of the wise and good to advance the cause of knowledge and of virtue , is the best mode of ensuring its success . This
principle is exemplified in a very striking manner , by the rapid progress which the British and Foreign Bible Society is making throughout the world . The joint operation of persons of the same religipus sentiments , may be supposed to promote in a more limited degree , what the union of various classes of
Christians effects on an extensive scale * The want of this among the Unitarians , is often the subject of regret . This inconvenience however would , I think , be in great measure removed
by the adoption of the plan which some &f your Correspondents have proposed , of " the Managers of the Unitarian Fund in , London undertaking to be a central committee for the
Fellowship Funds . " This would prevent the necessity of ministers among us going from town to town making collections for the building or repairing of chapels , and , indeed , for any application whatever to individual societies on these occasions . Let thisJbjMlways inade to the coiwniittee itk the metropolis , > vho , vvjll ascerUin the propriety
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154 Sridporl Fellowship Fund *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/18/
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