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life ,, and i the bla ^ e will soon g ive the gpod peopleof the North of Ireland li gty ^ pugh to re ^ di die ^ j&bje , ^^^ ^ i ^ nai speijta ^ s , It fe lupst fortunate for ( he cawsq q | triift and fre ^ tfom , that , just at the time this discussion was going on in tne North of Ireland , so much
attention should have been excited to the controversy in the metropolis . In the dispute between the champions of the Churches of Rome and England , a new » unexpected and unwelcome combatant has taken the field . Macguire , the Popish hero , had little difficulty in driving his antagonist Pope into a corner , from which he found it utterly impossible to escape . It required no great penetration to foretell the issue of a contest between these sister
churches . If the elder knows her game , the younger is sure to be beaten * Bat in Dr . Drummond , the Unitarian champion , the old lady has found an adversary of a different sort . From his bright and well-tempered armour her darts fall powerless , and the thrusts which so deeply wound the Church of England here foil to reach him . He who last defended Unitariahism in Dublin [ Emlyn ] was imprisoned as ; a felon . But those clays , ye Ulster Presbyterian inquisitors , are over ! You may u expose Dr . Drummond to the eye of Government / ' but there is no dungeon m store for him . The
ministers of a king who has graciouslyordefSl John Milton ' s defence of Aristnism to be translated and p ublished for the benefit of bis subjects , ar 6 not very likely to incarcerate Arians . After reading the pranks of this conclave of reverends , 1 turned far refreshment to the writings of my favourite Robert Kobinson , and I will finish
my letter by a quotation from one of his letters , addressed to a Dissenting minister , in which he exhorts his Tbrothef Baptists- to resist a yoke which some creed-making brethren would tiave fastened on their necks . ** What , c | ear Sir , can I say , except that I abhpr dpniinjbn over conscience ? 1 have confidence in our good brethren that tfcey wilt resist such tyranny by either refusing fund money , or by accepting ii free from all conditions of believing this thatWill resithe noblest branch of of
or * you g n liberty , liberty corvsc&nee t npt tp prelates and princes , —they don ^ t ask you , —but to a few plain , B& $ nJike yourselves , having no more learning , no more virtue , no more knowledge and piety , than yourselves , and no possible pretence for depriving you of this freedom , except * what the giving a fewjpoor guineas a year affords r Sir * oup ancestors resisted the tyranny of Rome m spite of all her pomp and her power . We have trod in her steps and dissented from a wealthy Established Church , because , like the papal hierarchy , she also oppressed us
with human creeds ; and shall we suffer our own brethren to put a ^ yoke tfpon oi » r necks ? God forbid . Who eleeted and commissioned these men to make a , creed for us ? Are they aposties , and have they any eicttaordlnary call ? Blessed be God , the ages of fraud and credulity are over , and , having got possession of the oracles of God , we are now to judge for oursehet . M every word were true , and our own faith , wq would not subscribe this creed ,, nor own the authority of &ese men to make one . put what if h should be neither truth nor sense ? < You must profess to bdtteve . What >
The doctrine of Original Sin ! Why there are twenty accounts of anginal evil : which do they mean ? That of $ t Augustine ? Or that of Soame Jenyns ? Neither , but baft * \ Of such practices as these , what will ouy Sovereign , the sole Lord of conscience , say when he conies f ° A NONGONfORMIST .
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On the ySynod of Ulster . 80 ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 807, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/23/
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