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their steps , and return amidst the mists and fogs of doubt and difficulty , for the edification of emerging at some indefinite period , with " the wavering , the timid , the careless , an 5 the * indifferent . " After all , your correspondent does but propose to renew an old experiment , under a different and less intelligible name . Societies have long existed , and still exist , . whe / e the great question which , according to T . F * B .,
brings with itto much perplexity , is never alluded to . Many of our old PresbytfeHkn chapels are cases in point . Let their empty pews testify as to the result , ^ T ' wify merely add one word more . The suggestion of your correspohnent ( more than once brought forward ) is singularly ill-timed at the period when the name of Unitarian has been recognized by the
Legislature of our country , and is beginning to be known and respected in almost every quarter of the g lobe * Any att ^ mpt ^ herefee , at a change of designation would be as fruitless as it would * be incbn ^ pnient ^ -impolitic , and unpopular with the vast majority of the « Unitariari body , who associate with the term the recollection of many difficulties happily overcome , and who see no reason whatever for its abandonment in the davfcj&f triumph . - * A UNITARIAN ,
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To the Editor . Sir , Dr . Mosheim , in his Ecclesiastial History , ( Century 17 , Sect . ii . Part ii . Chap . 7 , ) mentions a sect which arose in Holland about the year 1619 , and were denominated CoDegiants , from their giving the name of Colleges to their religious assemblies . He informs us that all were admitted into this sect , who believed in and
lived according to the Scriptures , whatever might be their opinion of the nature of God , the person of Christ , &c . They met for worship on Sundays and Wednesdays ; sung , prayed and expounded the Scriptures : this last part of their service being open to all their members , ( females excepted , ) who might advance their own sentiments , or controvert ( with charity and moderation ) the sentiments of others . They held a hah % early meeting at Rhinsberg , near Leyden , which occupied four days . During this time they listened to edifying discourses and exhortations to brotherly love , partook of the Lord ' s Supper , and administered baptism by immersion to those adults who desired it They had at Rhinsberg " ample and convenient houses for the education of orphans and the receptionof strangers , "
Dr . Mosheim speaks of them as numerous in his time , ( his Ecclesiastical History appeared * I believe , between seventy and eighty years ago , ) in the provinces' of Holland , Utrecht , East and West Friesland ; the Frieslanders holding theirhalfcy ^ arly meeting at Leewarden . Th ^ object of Uhis comnninibfition is , Sir , to solicit from any of your Correspondent ^ , wh 6 may be kcq \ iainted with the state of religions parties in HollaiKiy ' sGme ^ in ^ sect , a sect di ^ tinguisl ^ l by its'ltt ^ t ^ lky at a time * When Holland was torn With religious ulSCOtfjf > - > i il' )>«< v " 01 : ' { ' lod . Vi i ¦ " !¦ ; .. ^ " anif ui ii'ur ir .. < ¦ » - .-? > r . nV ) : > l > ih . iioiiST ^ itl > b jiuJbai > . )!<» - , i » Uit > i * . - '< ' ; ' J . C . M .
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The Collegfonts of Holland . 581
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THE COLLEGIANTS OF HOLLAND .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 581, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/29/
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