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Hp the following creed , which they acknowledge aa their belief . " . 1 r S 3 wtorH me Gad , biM ^ iia ^ rialty of poram % in the Godhead . < That the Son is inferior to the Father , and in the work of creation was used as a
subordinate a # eiit . 3 Cka $ : the principal ej ^ l | ency of the man Jesms C hjns t » < onsisted in his being fitted with the Diving Spirit They deny ; the propitiatory natureof the atonement of Christ , and Hold that he suffered only fon our
example , to shew us bow we are to crucify the flesh , tfe&t is , tP eradicate our natural propensities and affections They believe $ ha& none of . those who died before Christ went to heaven , tmt that a number of them went with him
to that blessed place , after his resurrection . " They believe that the plan of salvation was not developed * nor perfect holiness required of those who thea professed religion . But that Christ has come a second time , * without sin unto salvation / in the person of a
female ; and now the plan of salvation is perfectly revealed and understood by all Shakers ; - perfect holiness is now required and attainable , and the example of Christ is . to ; be literally followed . —Hence they will not permit the members of their church to marry , nor those who are married , when
they unite with them , to live together as husband and wife . They believe they are the children of the resurrection , and must neither marry nor be given in marriage , but be as the angels of heaven .
" They deny the doctrine of God ' s decrees , and of justification through faith on the merits of Christ ; but believe , when they confess t ^ eir sins to their ministry and are absolved , they then live perfectly holy , apd firee from every taint of ski . They believe the day of judgment commenced when
Christ appeared the second time in the person of Anna Lee , and that it is still progressing . That her spirit diffused om the miiiistry enables them to judge , acquit or condemn ,, apd that they confer a , portion of that same spirit on all that they account worthy of eternal . lyfe ** , which Jiv ^ s in , and
continually governs them . " They say the resurrection i $ past , and will never l ^ fbiresurretnipn of the body . They believe that judgment ,
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begun in t ^ s worM will be contintted wam alii the souls of tte wicked , wtu > departed this life ignorant of the gospel , a&Jt is .. lieiUl- |> 3 r . 'iibe ' . 81 ifdfiera&-ba « ci an offer of it , aid 4 fi $ Ji $ y ? b ^ ome Shakers , they shall be saved ; if not ,
they shall be made eternally miserable . Th $ y jaelieve / the-Bible is of no like now , farther than to prove the introduction of their new dispensation . ^ 1 % is the old heavens which have passed away . They dwy the charge of . iyaj r <* shiping Anna Lee . They trace the ori of their denomination from the
gin French Jumpers . "Though they disavow worshiping Anna Lee > yet in their hymns they address their parents and their mother . It is my opinion they worship her as much as they worship Jesus of Nazareth . "
Such , Mr . Editor , are the Shaker ^ aad a stranger compound of contrarieties cannot be found amongst the professors of Christianity . The account is evidently drawn up by a Calvinist minister , whose woeful lack of charity is conspicuous on the occa $ ion >
" I . wept , " ( says he , ) * ' at the awful disappointment they must experience when they enter the eternal worldwhen their sandy foundation shall be swept away , their hopes ^ fall , and they be for ever undone ! " This is a rasth and precipitate judgment . Charity ^
which thinketh and hopeth all things > would indulge something more favourable respecting even t \\ & poo ? Shakers , both as to this life and as to the life to , come . Granting either Trinitarianism or Unitarianism to be false , the head and the heart will be
set right in a better world . Punishment awaits inveterate and unrepentecj vice , ^ whilst involuntary error claims the pity and will receive the fQrgiye ^ ness of the righttous as well » 9 t , he mercifal Judge of the Universe 1 Happiness must finally embrace the creation of God . JjOHN EVANS-.
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Mtirqu i * of Ifastitlgs * Speech ut the last Examination in the College of Fore fFUli ^ m . 3 [ The MqjbU Mwqi ^ iai hayipg r ^ SSf ^ WvBftS t # | Q ^ veirn ^ Qene ral of Ja ^ a , 131 said tut fe § A Ofi , bis , way tq TE ^ ig l ^ Rft , and J > r 4 . Apaherel i % gone out to § uc-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/7/
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