On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
Sir , " - ' March 18 , 1623 . AS it appears to be intended to tnake some exertions , during the present session of Parliament , to procure the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts , I will take the liberty , through your publication , if you will allow my communication a place in it , of suggesting to those gentlemen who may engage in the attempt , that there
are Dissenting ministers whose salaries will be diminished when those acts are repealed . I am acquainted with one instance , and it is probable that there are ' others of a similar
description , in which a sum of inonej is paid annually to a Unitarian minister from an estate , from which , according to the will of the person who bequeathed it , it is to cease to be paid when the Corporation and Test Acts are repealed . The salary of the
minister in question is but small , and the reduction to which it is liable , though not large , would be severely felt ; the case , therefore , seems to be worthy of attention . I have never supposed , even for a moment , that the interests of an individual should
be attended to before those of the iMssenters at large ; neither' do I make this communication with any feeling of opposition to those gentlemen who wish to procure the repeal of those
acts . Together with every sincere friend of religious liberty , i approve of their intentions , &nd join in their wishes , but , at the scime time , I am desirous that they may not cause one evil by striving to remove another . " J . N .
Untitled Article
Yarmouth , Sim , March 23 , 1823 . rtjpERMIT me to make a few re-JL inarks on a communication from " Bereus" in the Repository for
February ( p . 95 ) . In the first place , I must entii-ely acquit the Society of Friends of the charge of attempting to suppress my " Letteir . " A bookseller , a member Qf oitt Society , certaittly refused to dell the pamphlet , as * he would and has refused to ¦ sell
oihcir books the contents of which he deems strikingly in opposition tb | Me principles of Friends . , Among our mi nisters and eiders a disposition to diacbutag ' e inquiry and free discussion is , it mum be £ t > l * ft * fcrcd , too *> bvious ;
Untitled Article
but as I have heard of noting that can justify ahjr && itf *! i » % a % ^ Society with an attemptto iujpfctfesa my . Letter , I could * ndt let sifteh tfo&rg ^ pass without notice . I'db nbt like to let the present opportunity gH ^ without an observation on the conttf&ver ^ y betweeri Quakers and Unitttiiaiis . The pages 6 f the Repository have often contained articles tending to shew a resemblance between the tifinchlles of
these sects . I think a little reflection will convince any dtietoticlraeiji ^ aintefl with the religibits sentnnents of Quakers , that rae controversy between ^ hem afcd Unitarians on the Unity of tHe Deity , i& little Kio ^ e than verbal . FViends , nbt excepting the most orthodox of them , have not generally
any Trinitarian ideas : their language sometimes favours thepopular notion , and the majority of them disclaim Unitarianism ; still , when their minds are uninfltieneed by the fear of
heterodoxy , their language in private conversation , in their -pr&jefn and ser * mons , and ^ in their epistles Will , I think , prove thttt in their ideas the Unity ot the D ^ ity is not divided , aad that the Son is not exalted to an
equality With the Father . It is only when pressed 6 n a subject , they would Otherwise seldom meddle with , that they fly to popular language and ambiiruous texts .
The dissent and separation of our predecessors from irther professors of ChHstianity Was . more on account of conduct than opinions , of internal discline and church government than articles of belief . Their testimony was
borne more against hiring the tewher than against the doctrines he fought : it was the making that the privilege and emoluineht tftf bne whlifen i oiight to be tlkfe ditty df lAY ; t < f whfcfo ' they objected . If others conferred 6 n one and
tWe privilege of preBehin ^ prayni ^ fricTm his high pmce at hu oWn ^ Siscretion , while i they not only submitted td Aettt ffito without wms ^ fhut f conaented tb pray « oid to pwijfe only in wdnfc thdt . W ^ e ^ fiet dowft ¥ or them , biir pred ^ ces ^ re tta * Wffit themselves -tiifep ^^ i >^ rtiittin ^ all td feitlAeBirori ^ by otie ,
r ^ > . that all ^ Wmm learn ; and ' All might be GototeiteA ^ ^ 3 fc « flfi ^ tMhrV i » fi- ^ i : f .: oA « rs wei-e' yet' ivrabfHSd % b itf formal w ^ ' Mp ^ mmik , meybeUcv&i that
Untitled Article
210 Mr . Elcock on the Controversy between Unitarians and Quakers .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/18/
-