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eight-voted . Several of the requisitionists are known to have wholly misunderstood the intention of the originators of this measure , and some have expressed their wish that this should be made known . Among these is the Rev . J . Saunders . Another
requisitionist , John Boswell , Esq ., has sentTlTs ~ a , " corrected ~ cx ) py— -of—his speech , and concludes as follows : — " Allow me , Mr . Editor , to add that I have seceded from the British and Foreign 'Bible Society , because heresy is eligible to a share in the management of the affairs of that Society . I have seceded from the Trinitarian
Bible Society , because heresy and fanaticism have a share in the management of its affairs . " Holy , conscientious man ! with what a sweet pugilistic grace he may project his arms and exclaim . " Stand aside ! I
am holier than thou ! or , raising them aloft with dilated stature , and siveiling -idiest , and 'trumpet tongue , cry aloud , \ God , I thank thee that I am not as otner men are ! " The same anti-christian spirit which wrought in England extended its baleful influence to our own island , and attempts , though
of a less public nature , similar m wickedness and folly to those made m London , were made to subvert the Hibernian Bible Society . The good sense and Christian feeling of this Society , united to a regard for principle , and consistency , baffled those attempts , and , it is to be hoped , will
continue to bame them should they be ever repeated . Trinitarians are fond of boasting , to their shame , that no Socinians—meaning Unitarians , for they are fond of nick-names—are ever admitted to their councils , or to any share in the management of their affairs . This is assuredly not fair ,
They who are members of a society , who are acknowledged to be such by the receipt of their subscriptions , who have always evinced an honest desire to act faithful to the principles on which the Society was constituted , — - who , in the purity of their morals and the rectitude of their conduct , would
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not shrink from a comparison with the best of the exclusionists , —ought to have their representatives in the committee and on 4 he platform . Whence so much anxiety to exclude them ? Have they in any mode rendered themselves unworthy of the holy brotherhood ? Have they ever betrayed 4-he ~ gFeat ™ pr-inGi ple ^ oLtheJBlbk Society , and made use of an influence , derived from their connexion with
that Society , to circulate tracts and comments in support of their peculiar doctrines ? Have they distributed the Bible , without note or comment , with fhe right hand , while with the left they were scattering their creeds , articles , and confessions of-, faith ? Had they one face for the privy council and another for public exhibition $
Have they at any time claimed precedence of men , their superiors in virtue and learning , or used an undue influence to keep an orthodox brother in the back-ground , and to plunge him in the deepest shade , lest , being discovered , he might become an object of that popular regard which the orthodox are so anxious to
monopolize ? Unitarians know well how they have been treated by Bible Societies , and assuredly they cannot boast that it has been according to the golden rule of Christianity ; but they scorned to complain ;—4 f good were done , they remained satisfied ; they were little ambitious of distinction among the orators of the Rotunda . They rejoiced to see-that the Bible
was distributed , conscious that the Bible is their most powerful and efficient advocate . The projectors of the Trinitarian Bible Society have given Unitarians the most decisive triumph ; they have virtually sealed their testimony to tl ^ e , truth of Unitarian Christianity . Whence their anxiety to fbrm a Trinitarian Society and make a profession of belief in the Trinity the condition of membership ? Where , but ( jjrom a consciousness that the Bible is a Unitarian book ? Whence but from a secret and well-founded conviction , that the Bible , without note
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^ 6 UNITARIAN CHRONICLE ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1813/page/12/
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