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    wkh myself of thfe Universaligt Magazine , He is also a decided H ^ manl tarian . " I believe I "have « dw extracted the whole of the intelligence retoing to the Universaliste , furnished by my highly-valued correspondent , which Worthl fee interesting to yoXir readers , and remain , Your obedient servant , ROBERT ASFLAND .

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    T ** Q « E Christians whose peculiar tenet is the worship of one "Sdpreme 3 FatbeTtte » o \ gh JtesusOwis ^ , have sometimes been feppoached for the want * tf that fellowship # nd co-operation which distinguish most other sects , and 1 br the little seal Which they appear to exhibit in the active propagation of

    their opinions . Without attempting to justify these deficiencies , so far 3 s > tti € iy ktigefrom induiefenceaiftd vfofldly-mindedness , I think a brief survey of the fhistory and circumstances of Unitarianism may serve at lea& to explain them , Most srcts have passed off at once in a considerable body from the

    National Ghufdh on the ground of some disputed point of disdipiline and pracsr lice , whicMntfctffested the prejudices and excited the imagination . of the multitude , and becaine the l ^ oad ^ nd tothjgtrishing badge of a party . ^ Unitarianism , through & gradual change in * fhe belief of indrviddBas , bas grown up imperceptibly m We bosom fcf a religious body with itfhidh it owned tio necessary m wigmtil ^ connexidn . The spirit 6 f Puritanism , to which , ^ witii

    * all its iesti ^ vaga ^ cies , 'England 4 s deeply indebted , and vMdh mtybeshortly thaafadteri 2 fed as-a % jpirit 01 uiftora opposition to Catholicism , ^ fHfttrodied ^ tsefF , « is is ve * y well known , in the course ^ f the seventeenth century , in three leading gedts , ^ i ke di stinguished fb r ^ their lisrtred of episcopacy ; Which , lifter the Revolution , were recognized by ^ the laws as the three dfenoarinittiOns -ef ftotestant DiTSs ^ nterft , and jointly partook of the benefit of the Toleration Act . toe » e i thtfee > 6 ects Separafte ^ ? frOni the Estataishttient em the avowed of

    principle ^ thttt it V ^ is only * iaitf ) r ^ fortoed , i tfndth ^ it a great deal > Popery'still kffkfed under itsgorgeous ^ nd imposing ceremonial . ' This was a definite arid intelligible ptinbipte , atnd it Warrafy inte * edted thefedirigs of'the people , Who carried ; thetr afthotj ^ nGe of « fee Roman Catholics to a most extravagant length . But with regard to the leaders of these Dissenting bodies , and esp 6-icially of the Presbyterians , wko numbered amongst f theni ^ ome of fthe tiobiiity

    £ hd many of Ihe -inferior'geittry , it ~ * nay -be asserted , without any violation of truth dtid cbtftfity , t \ m tl % were amuttted by political ^ s < W ^ U as by religious niotives , and that their'Gdrite ^ st with eAriBtoifcey ^ wtfs , ing ^ eat irtea 3 ure , tet'tontest f 6 r p ^ wer . > Un 1 te 4 With the Ohurciitor a time by a comtnon di * e ^ J 6 f Potoery , and in itdhievin ^ the ^ dtto ^ s work : the ^ ReVdltltioti , 'the Ps ^ edbytmtete n ^ tu ^ l ympfecled , ' aniOogst fehe ^ eStilteW ^ thitt ^ evertt , 'sortie l £ kiheme of cornprehension which should admit them to fei ^ share m the honours « nd

    emoiunients df > the O ^ teblishme * t . Drtappoirited of this exp ^ etmimi , the paW ^ ill rewirtedtfor a long time ihe ^ litfeftl ^ n ^ pirtee by Which k wsto originally 8 ( Gtuated , arid , together with it , an £ tttaehmetlt to its peculiar mode of w 6 rihipan < l eccM ^ kfifl tJidcJiplinfe . This impulse , however , grew feebler « id ' feebler ; pertdrm of elevated rank didliked 4 e itigma of -belonging to tn

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    178 . ZMitimm Vfiristfahtiy .

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    THOUOHTS ON THE PROGRESS AND PU ! TOilE BROSPiXJTS OF CNISTARIAN GHRiSTIANITYw

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/18/