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privileges of the state to profess the religion of the state . " There is so much confusion in the style of this writer , that it is not always easy to fiud out his meaning * . In the above passage he discovers a
total ignorance of Protestantism , and the principles on which it is founded . I had always understood that a Protestant was one who rejected the corruptions of the church of Rome , and who appealed to the Scriptures as the sole rule of faith and practice .
This I found asserted in innumerable writers , and the truth of it is evident from the whole history of the reformation . In these principles , " CaU vinists , Presbyterians , Methodists , Socinians and Unitarians , " are united with the Church of England , without a single exception .
This writer is not the first who has associated the Unitarians with Deists . And if to distinguish Christianity from its corruptions , to preach and live under the warrant of Scripture , and to inculcate sound morals on the
prospect of that immortality which was brought to light by the gospel , be a sign of Deism , Unitarians will have no objection to the name of Deists . The frequent use of these invidious aspersions , by intolerant
bigots , will take out their sting . The world is not so ready as it has been , to follow the cry of designing men . To affirm the globe we inhabit to be round , was deemed heresy a few ages back , and for asserting its motion the immortal Galileo was
confined in the dungeons of the Inquisition . But the term heretic has * in these more enlightened times lost its dreadful sound . The worst heresies that ever infested religion are found to be spiritual pride , priestly ambition , the love 01 dominion , and the
spirit of persecution . But to place us on a footing- with € ( Deists and Unbelievers /* does not satisfy this Dr . Fletcher . He will not allow us to have any religion . He has falsely , malevoleatly , and without the smallest provocation , insulted those who merited far otfcer
treatment from a Catholic . In whatever light I view his conduct , it appears to me weak , indiscreet and ungrateful . While the claims of the Catholics to an enlargement of their toleration was opposed by the mem-
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bers of the Established Church , the Unitarian Dissenters , kttowing what it is to be excluded from the common rights of citizens , advocated their cause . But to p lead with such a person on principles of liberality and
gratitude , is to address him in a language he does not or will not understand . From Dr . Fletcher we can appeal with pleasure to other Catholics of more enlarged and liberal minds . To use the words of another
Catholic clergyman , "• I have conversed , indeed , only with men of liberal minds , and as long aa I am permitted to choose my own company , I will associate with no others . When they cease to be found , it will be time to retire to the woods / 3 * I
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have the pleasure of being well acquainted with another clergyman of that communion in this city , who is one of its brightest ornaments , and would be an honour to any
communion , who is animated with the same liberal spirit and has expressed his unqualified disapprobation of this publication .
JAMES MANNING . P . S . While the author represents the different sects of Protestants as being of different and even opposite religions , is he aware that Protestants
might , on the same grounds , assert that the Augustines , Benedictines , Carmelites , Dominicans , Franciscans , and a variety of other sects , such as the Jesuists , the Jansenists , and RIolinists , are of different religions ?
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l > 08 On the Charge of ' " Mystery" against Dr . Priestley , fyc .
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Sir , July 24 , 1823 . CANNOT discern any degree of I similarity between the mystery of eternity and the supposed mystery in the Athanasian Creed ; for so I choose to designate the popular
doctrine , rather than by the term Trinity 9 which being aa equivocal word , may be , and often is adopted by persons of different sentiments , in their own sense . It is therefore high time that this term should be discarded . Controversialists make sad work of
it , by riot using explicit terms . Hence , everlasting discussion , and no conclusion . " But—to the point . I think that your correspondent ( p »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/12/
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