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UNITARIAN BAPTISTS IN YORKSHIRE , ^ To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , Your Correspondent who signs herself Sabrina , has in your Repository for September , ( Vol . I . p . 46 l ) given an interesting account of some Unitarian Baptists in Yorkshire , in speaking of whom she says , " It is to me a singular phenomenon that persons who possess the most liberal notions with regard to the Christian doctrine , should manifest a narrowness relating to Christian intercourse and fellowship , which is not exceeded by the most rigid sects under the profession of the highest Grthod © xy /* Being well acquainted with the people in question , and their sentiments , I have waited thus long in expectation that
some ot your worthy and liberal correspondents would notice Sabrina ' s paper ; but I fear they would almost as soon think o £ discussing the subject of transubstantiation , as thebigotted nor lions to which she alludes . Her motives I consider laudable and her statement upon the whole , fair and candid ; the persons who are the objects of her censure may indeed hesitate to admit it , because , as they would state , some difference of opinion has existed among them ever since they were formed into a society , without causing any division . This , from personal knowledge , I believe to be true ; but if any difference did exist among them , it was on what may be termed mere
minor points ; they still considered each other as " standing on ithe foundation" and agreeing in all important matters : perhaps there is no example of even the Jnost rigid Calvinists who perfectly agree in every thing , however they may unite in reprobating those who differ from them . The fact I believe is as Sabrina states , that , though the Yorkshire Baptists have rational and enlightened views of the Christian doctrines , they are so destitute of all liberality of sentiment that they not only refuse to acknowledge those who are termed orthodox
professors to be Christians , but even those whose doctrines in ge neral they approve , if they are not Baptists , and have not adopted their peculiar views and church discipline- To many this xnay appear strange and unaccountable , but the sincerity , z-ea and good intentions of this people cannot be doubted ; though there is amongst them much to blame , there is also certainly much to praise ; their errors arise , I conceive , from too grea a degree of confidence in the correctness of their knowledge- — a confidence unwarranted by their means of information : they seem , whilst rejecting the name , to assume the authority ofapostieSj and forgetting their own fallibility , decide with 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/12/
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