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and others , through the medium of your interesting publication , a short account of the Unitarian Seminary at York . I would premise however , that notwithstanding it is denominated Unitarian , because that sentiment has been the result of the
most serious investigation of its supporters , and of the excellent person who conducts the theological department , yet that nothing can be further from their wishes or his plan , than to impose upon the Students any particular system of belief . Although dissenters from the Church of England , on what they
conceive the most conclusive reasoning , yet they steadily adhere to her sixth Article of faith , namely , that " Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation , so that whatever is not read therein , nor may be proved thereby , is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an article of the faith , or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation /*
In what may be considered as in strict conformity to this article , therefore , I have been informed both by the Tutor and Students , that no system whatever is inculcated in the theological classes , ; that the only text-book is the Bible , which is read with great care during the last two years of the course , nearly according to tfie plan recommended by Mr . Locke , Dr . Taylor , and Dr . Jebb : that when the Students have by their own
exertions , directed and " assisted by their Tutor , made up their minds as far as can be expected , concerning the doctrines of Scripture , they learn the rise and progress of systems in a full course of Ecclesiastical History . But it is not in my power amply to detail the plan pursued in the York Academy , and it is the less necessary as 1 am told it will ere long be laid before the public . From what I do know of it however , it appears of such a nature , as to render the labour and exertions on the part
of the Tutors equally great , whether the Students may happen to be numerous or few . But to return t 6 the more immediate subject of the Accidental Discoverer ' s / ' inquiry .
In the year 1786 , an Academy was instituted at Manchester , for the avowed purpose of providing the means of a liberal education for Protestant Dissenting Ministers . It flourished with various success until the year 1803 , when , on the resignation of the Rev . George Walker , it was determined by the Trustees to invite the Rev , Charles Wellbeloved the resident dissenting
Minister in this city , to undertake the superintendence of the institution , and to remove the library belonging to it , hither . Their reason for this determination may be seen at length in their printed report , dated March 26 , 1803 , and bear very honourable testimony to their high estimation of the talents , disposition , and character of Mr . Wellbeloved .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/3/
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