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VNITARIAN MINISTERS IN A TRINITARIAN CHURCH : WHISTONIUS * S SECOND LETTER ON STONES SERMON . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , I was not a little surprised to" find that my letter which you published in November last had produced an opponent . I never wrote any thing which I less expected to be called upon to defend ; as a mere definition of the terms " Unitarian Minister / ' Trinitarian Church / ' would , in my opinion , have secured me from an attack . I now find that I too soon indulged the inclination to " put off the harness . " C . G . aik ventures on this forlorn hope , a non-commissioned volunteer , I am persuaded ; fqr the Rector of Cold Norton , had prudence
allowed him to send to the lists a champion of his consistency , would at least have taken care that he should have been better appointed . I observe in some late notices of publication that the Rev , R . N&res , a quondam literary acquaintance of mine , himself I believe an incumbent in Essex , is disposed to shiver a lance with the Rev . F . Stone , in defence of his holy Mother the Church . That our Rector will ably maintain the doctrine of his sermon , I have no doubt . Respecting ljis conduct as the Preacher of such a sermon while he determined to continue a benefieed * Clergyman of a Church tor which that doctrine is directly opposed , I venture to expect that he will be on the reserve ^ and for an excellent reason— *
What would offend the eye in a good picture , . The painter casts discreetly into shade . But , by this time ., C . G . will be inquiring how I am affected by his strictures on my remarks . I ask his excuse for informing him that when I read them , I immediately recollected the Spanish Proverb— " Defend a man from his friends , and leave him to combat his enemies /* And now , I would willittgly discover some arguments in his letter which I may treat with the attention which arguments always deserve £ but your correspondent has produced hardly a sophism tfr
sustain the cause which he would defend . I assumed , as undisputed premises , that the Church of England bestows rights and immunities for which she exacts professions and du ^ ties . Hence I ventured to draw the obvious conclusion , that one * who publicly revokes those professions and thus becomes incapable of conscientiously performing those duties
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 139, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/27/
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