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    by no means insensible , and of whose individual excellence I am a happy witness . To specify particulars of their variations from the faith and practice of the primitive Christians , would lead me to a length that would neither correspond with my

    inclinations , nor that of your readers . * I merely drop the hint to Friend Walker , that he may not think more highly of himself or his sect than he ought to think : and I sincerely hope that his respectable fraternity will not be offended , if I , in stirring up their pure

    minds , by waif of remembrance , drop the additional hint , that if they , as a body , should be somewhat more attentive to the purity of principle and practice , which distinguished the primitive Christians 5 who , while they

    counted all things but loss for Christ , were by no means insensible of the value of their rights as men , and as citizens ;—should they be more careful of imbibing that spirit of servility and worldly-rnindediiess ; and of displaying , at least , a tacit approbation of that system of corruption ,

    wickedness and conformity to the world , in its worst sense , which has so peculiarly disgraced modern Christians for the past half century : —they will by no means decrease in respectability in the eyes of the world in general , or the Christian world in particular . B . FLOWER .

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    Sir , March % 1819 , l DURING my visit a short time ago in Buckinghamshire , f there

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    was presented to me , by a cottager , 3 Roman Catholic prayer-book , pub * lished at Dublin : while perusing it , I was surprised at finding the whole of the second commandment left out , but the nunaber ten was preserved

    by dividing the tenth into ninth and tenth . I shall feel obliged by receiving a communication from any of your correspondents , what grounds they have for erasing so considerable a portion of what is almost universally approved sacred . E . S .

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    Walthamstotv , Sir , March 4 , 1819 . IN p . 56 , of your Repository for January , I find this alarming declaration , sealed by the authority of Mr . Stodhart , of Pell Street , Ratcliff-Highway , that" they who deny the co equal

    and co-essential godhead of Jesus Christ , will , with Unitarians , be damned to all eternity , " I read this denunciation with a mingled feeling of astonishment , contempt and pity . My astonishment , indeed , was not called forth by any novelty in the

    thing , as the temper which dictates these anathemas is , unhappily , prevalent enough . But were the sentence rung in my ears every hour of every day , I should never cease to be astonished at the presumption of a poor fallible mortal , who should dare to

    seat himself on the throne of God , and shut the gates of mercy on all who do not think as he does . —Unitarians are to be damned to all eternity ! —Not surely because they differ in theff religious creed from Mr .

    Stodhart . And yet I defy him , in conjunction with all who hold the same opinion , to assign a better reason why they should be damned than this would be . Theologians are not always with caution bold , but he

    must be a bold man indeed , who should have the hardihood to deny that Unitarianism has ranked amongst its professors , men who have been eminently adorned with every Christian virtue . Nor would he be less

    audacious , who should venture to affirm , that Unitarian ism does not embrace ever ?/ practical principle of Christianity . Virtue , indeed , is to a Unitarian , the acknowledged end of his faith , and every article . in his creed euforces the practice of virtue . ' But

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    164 Mr . Cogan on Mr . Siodhart ' s Anathemas against Unitarians .

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    * One error , however , I cannot help noticing-, and which , as it is stuted in J . Walker ' letter , appears to me , as a rule of life , to be of a most dangerous tendency : —that which exalts the " light within , " above the sacred Scriptures ; and we perceive the unhappy effects of this error in the mind of the writer , whose u lifi-ht

    within , " or what I believe your readers will term his fancy ^ led him to think himself more enlightened than the " enthusiast prophet Isaiah !"—Which is genuine Quakerism—that of the venerable assembly

    who advised keeping "to the form of sound words , the Scriptures , " or tliatof J . Walker , who despises such a test , I leave to be settled between him and his opponent B ., Si the well-meaning Bible Quaker . " f Near Weston , a village where the majority are Roman Catholics . ( Also , a Catholic college . )

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/28/