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To the Supporters of the Unitarian Fund .
MY CHB 1 STIAN BRETHREN , An advocate for those views of the doctrine of the Divine Unity which you espouse , has read the report of the commencement and progress of the measures which you have adopted to promote the reception of that doctrine , with sacred pleasure . Indulge him , if he wishes , to animate your efforts , and to
express tne satisfaction wnicn tneir nature and the opening prospect of their eventual success afford him . Accept his congratulations on the propitious circumstances which enlivened your first annual meeting , and tended to encourage and stimulate the prosecution of the laudable design irt which you have etnbarked . You felt that your design met with an approbation on which you had not calculated . You felt yourselves invited to proceed in it with vigour and resolution , tempered with candour and prudence * It was a great consolation , we are told ,
t ( y that excellent confessor , Mr . Thomas Emlyn , who suffered obloquy , imprisonment , and fines , in the beginning of the eighteenth century , that he lived to see the progress of those very principles which had exposed him to rage and ignominy . Efe had , in the prime of his days , sustained severe persecution for strenuously , but modestly , asserting the unity and supremacy ' of the One God and Father of all : under the infirmities and Janguot of old age * and in the view of death , it was a ground of rejoicing to se 6 the truth which he had defended , at the loss of his good name , substance ^ and liberty , spreading its power ; and to witness , that though he himself had suffered u as an evildoer , evert unto borids , yet the word of God was not bound */'
You , Christiatis , have beheld the increasing progress of just sentiments concerning the Divine Unity . Some-of you , perhaps a considerable proportion of your number , are examples of the pswer of truth , of the energy of good sense and plain Scriptutfe , correcting , in this instance , the errors of education , and triumphing over the many prejudices which fix the adherence of numbers to th 6 se errors . I have often reflected , with surprise and pleasure , on the great aiid increasing spread of those opinions , which , in my early years , were deemed highly heretical . It is an incontrovertible fact , thit numbers , it not all , who have sat down , calmly and diligently , to investigate the ' grounds on which rest the commonly received opinions concerning the person of Christ , and the doctrine of the Trinity *
* Dr . Foster * * Funeral Sermon for Mr . JEmlyn , p . 38 , 1741 :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/15/
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