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the subject of the Pre-existence , he could not join as a Member . * As the subject wafc publicly brought before the Society , I was solicitous that it should be fuUy discussed and
laid to rest one way or other 5 and I more than once expressed , in our Committee meetings , my indention of dehVering my sentiments at the annual meeting . I conceived that hovw ever expedient it might have been ,
when the Society was first instituted to make the avowal of the Simple Humanity an essential feature , ( since , at that time , the Arians , however near in sentiment , were almost as touch opposed to the believers of the
Simple Humanity , and as much afraid of them , as the Trinitarians themselves were , and generally speaking were in no way disposed to unite with them in public efforts to oppose even the great errors of modern
orthodoxy , ) yet that the time is come , when the middle wall of separation , hi spirit and mutual co-operation , ought tQ be broken down : that the great distinction now is , between the Trinitarian and the avowed Unitarian :
that there is at least one doctrine , op which the believers of the Siinple Humanity differ , which is vastly more momentous than that on which they
agree , and in which most of the believers in the Simple Pre-existence , unite with the bulk of those who reject the Pre-existence , —the do <> trine of Final Restoration : and that
if the believer in the Pre-existence , — adhering ptrictly and openly to the great principles of Unitarian ism , ( the Unrivalled Supremacy , Exclusive Worship , and E&sentiaJ Mercy , of God even the Father , ) joining with us in
our Unitarian Fellowship tunas * unit * ing with us exclusively in our Wor * shi p * and sitting dpwn witb us at the JLorcTs Supper , <~ were disposed to associate with us , ( without expecting that we should alter our practice in . the introduction of books into the
Catalogue * or in other . means for the dissemination of the Simple Humanity of Christ in connexiop with the *? I have somewhat recently beard , with
great satisfaction , that lie has publicly stated that his mind is no longer unsettled ^ but rests in the svmple truth , that the Mediator l » etUE * 4 H < Gotl and ^ een was th © ihA k Christ Jesus . .. ....
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Proper Unity of < 3 od , ) provided w would cease to lay down the avow at of the Simple Humanity as an essential requisite for membershi p , W 6 ought not to keep him aloof from us
—Firmly and unhesitatingly believ * ing the doctrine of Simple Humauity advocating it on all occasions Where a regard to still more important principles permits me , and satisfied that the current of conviction will eventually lead every Unitarian tQ the
reception of it , I nevertheless believed , that in the present state of the Unitarian controversy , the interests of pure Christianity would be more effectually served , by generally
relinquishing this as an exclusive separating principle ; and that even with respect to this doctrine itself , the doubters , or disbelievers , would be more like ) y to come to us , if they fought with us under common banners . With these
views , which as yet I have seen no reason to change , I wished , as tjie measure had been brought forwards , that it should be subjected to a fair and ample discussion . When 1 reached Bath the evening before the meeting , I found that some of those who supported the alteration at the preceding meeting would wot be present , aud I
could not learn that any arrangements had been made for bringing the matter regularly forwards- 1 believe those who wished the change , had done as I had snyself , left the matter to its own course . I had myself had no communication with any of them witU
a view to it Ii ) tfcese circumstances , I drew up ' the follpwin ^ resolutions , which , at the wish pf Mr . Fawcett , whom alone I conversed with before the service commenced , I undertook to submit to the meeting .
"That with a view to those believers in the Absolute Unity , Unrivalled Supremacy , Exclusive Worship , and Essential repur chased Love and Mercy , of God , even tbe Father of our Lord JemsChrist , who bold tbe doctrine of the Simple Pre-exis * e R «« of our Lord , —quid to those who , tjiougfh they cordially unite in these fundament
principles of Unitaiianisin , do not . poiffttff that decided conviction in the doctrine ot the Simple Humanity , which would enable them to avow belief in it , —and alpo to those believers in the Simple Humanity , who , horaeror important they e § tim * te " doctrine , ohject to it as sxe ] mJU among- persons who * v& united by * M " * ° * 7 ^" avowal of doctrines which exclude- * °
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74 $ Dr . Carpenter on Proceedings in the Western Unitarian Society *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 746, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/30/
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