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    JOHN MANSELL.

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    one pages of priiited ma , tter , and sells for 2 d . ; whereas Houlston ' s , which contain in every page five lines more , seldom offer less than eleven pages and a hall of letter-press . It may jbe said that the donations of Tracts made by the Society must be taken

    into the account . Unquestionably ; - but-followiog ^~ a ~ rule—whkh—I-have hitherto found admits of but very few exceptions , I should say , that what is thus given away is not the most valued , and that not all the forced means resorted to on this occasion have probably procured so

    large a circulation among the poor , as has been obtained by Houlston ' s Tracts . It is true some of ttte latter are highly orthodox , and it may be a saving of time to those persons who are in the kabits > £ giving , Tract& ,

    to have them published by a society which may be depended on for not circulating anything liable to objections on the score of doctrine ; but it should , at the same time * be remembered , tfial the ^ lcnowri or suspected Unitarianism of the Christian Tract

    Society is a means of preventing , to a great extent , the circulation pf its books , while in reality they are not more Unitarian than a number of tfr $ Wellington Tracts , which lie under no such stigma , I believe I am not wrong- in saying , indeed , that some of the latter are written by Unita *

    rians , and among others , that the authoress of * Illustrations of Political Ec ^ noimy r" 'h as jaotItnought it beneath her to contribute to them . "Why therefore , if good tracts , I will boldly say better and cheaper ,

    conveying the same moral and religious views , are to be had , without all the machinery of reports , subscriptions , secretaries-, and —annual- meetings ^ should the public be called on to uphold so expensive a concern ?—A .

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    UNITsAftt&N CHRONICLE . € 6 ?

    John Mansell.

    JOHN MANSELL .

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    Sm , ~ T-. About thirty-four years since I was a zealous Calvifrist , resident in howdtiR , I" ^ collect' there f was

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    some sensation at that period respecting aMr . Mansell , a Calvinigjtic , or particular Baptist Minister , whom the celebrated W \ Huntington had introduced to London or its vicinity , as , one supporting his peculiar views of the GospeL The sensation was

    occasioned by this Mansell becoming -an-o pen ~ and-a vowed-heretieTpreaeh »•—ing and writing against the Holy Trinity . An acquaintance of mine , a young man , Jent me the book , which . I read , and many an . angry and bitter controversy had my friend and i on the subject ; as I then considered the belief of the doctrine of

    the Trinity essential to salvation . Nevertheless , the reading of the book made some impression on my mind , which I could not well get rid of ; , and ., 1 devoutly , wished I had never seen the publication , as it had in some measure disturbed and

    unsettled my mind . I told my friend I would argue no more with him on the subject , as it only stirred up ungodly " passions , and tended to no real good . After , this I = accompanied my friend , one dark winter ' s night , to some chapel in the Borough to hear this then celebrated ManselL

    I saw in the pulpit an apparently plain , frank , honest , open-hearted man , who preached a most excellent sermon in defence of his new views , from the conclusion of the Lord ' s Prayer—** Thine is the kingdom , the power and the g lory , forever , Amen . '' I never forgot' that discourse ; I never shall forget it while consciousness exists . He showed that all

    authority , government , power and glory originated from the one God and Father of all > and must all terinitiate in him . He showed us , that though Ohristwas- the * ambassador of God , the prophet , the messenger ,

    the lma ^ e , the forra ^—even the Son of God , yet he was not God himself ; for that all things , all beings were subordinate to God ; that Jesus Christ was Lord , in a higher sense than any other created being , but that he was hovA only to the glory

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1832, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1825/page/27/