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162 TJNITAHIAN CHRONICLE *
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will be the natural result of candid and frequent discussion . It is enough for me to hope that to that discussion the events in which I have borne a share may give some impulse ; and
that , with my present convictions , any course but that which I have JOtU ! Bi §! iLw ^^ to _ the just reprobation of upright men , and the scorn of my own mind . I heg you to assure the friends in whose name you have acted that , through whatever future scenes
Providence may conduct me , I shall retain a grateful remembrance of their wholly-unmerited generosity and feebly-merited regard , and desire their best welfare with an earnestness undiminished by separation . Believe me ever Your grateful and faithful James Martineau .
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the ability which it manifested , was strongly -characterized by great power an < i—eloquence . Of this , the best proof was afforded by the deep interest with which it was listened to , by
a very crowded audience of persons of various religious denominations , although it occupied nearly two hours ^ iuE e ^ eliveTjC ^ the sermon is to be published , together with one preached by the same gentlemen , at the meeting of Synod last year in Larne . After Mr . Blakely had concluded , he constituted
the Synod by prayer . He then requested that a successor might be chosen to him . The Rev . Mr . Davis , and the Rev . Mr . Campbell , of Ternplepatrick , were then put in nomination ; but the latter gentleman haying begged leave to waive bis claims-, the
Rev . Mr . Davis was unanimously chosen Moderator for the ensuing year . The clerk then proceeded to read the minutes of last year , out of which nothing of general interest arose ; and the Synod adjourned at six o ' clock , till ten the next day . The Synod met the next morning at ten o ' clock , when the minutes
of Tuesday ' s meeting , relative to the recognition of the Remonstrant Synod , by Government , as an independent body , and a communication from the General Assembly of America , to the General Synod of Ulster , were read . Some conversation arose , on reading the overture , of last , year appointing a Committee to watch Over the civil rights of this body , respecting the returns which have been made
to the Government of this country ofthe number of the Presbyterians in Ireland ; and , in consequence of some information which was given to the Synod by some of its members , it was resolved , that the Committee for watching over the civil rights of the Remonstrant Synod , appointed at its last meeting in Larne , be continued ; that the Rev . F . Blakely , with I . W . GJenny , J $$ q ., Mr , Emerson , and Dr . Stewart , elders , be added to it ; and that the Ministers of this Synod shall
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REMONSTRANT SYNOD OF ULSTER .
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This reverend body assembled in the meeting house of the Rev . James Davis , of Banbridge , on Tuesday , 17 th July , for the purpose of holding their annual meeting . The late Moderator , the Rev . F . Blakely , commenced the proceedings , by preaching from 2 d Corinthians , iv . 5 .- — " For
we preach not ourselves , but Christ Jesus , the Lord . " From these words , he proceeded to point out , at considerable length , the insufficiency and presumption of human authority , in * terposed instead of the book of revelation ; and showed , that , taking Christ for his Master , he neither could nor durst admit of any interference , on the part of fallible men like himself . He contended , that
creed-making was a device of priests , whether Protestant or Catholic , resorted to for the purpose of supporting their own authority and influence . He next gave a luminous view of the preaching of Christ and his Apostles ; and concluded by vindicating the claims of Unitarians to the character of Christian teachers . The discourse , considered merely in reference to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1832, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1819/page/18/
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