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stfffitiefr&y evinced * befbie the Sdsieiy took apy steps tow&rds disowning tWerii ; '] The difference between the
Unitarians afnd Trinitariatis being , of acknowledged importance , because it extends to the objee ^ of their worship , it appears little short of an abdication of religious
principle K > r any of the former to ^ tideavoiir to iiitrude themselves into religious fellowship with the latter ^ whose worship must , in their view , be idolatrous ; and when R * Fi or his friends feel
their zeal kindled against the Trinitarians for acting more consistently , by rejecting $ ii £ h intruders ,
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i ¦ ¦ REPLY tO " A MODEST QUERIST . " LETTER II . ¦ MfPMfMMMM ^ MMMV * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
sir , . March 8 , 1808 . As you have thought proper to publish my letter on Popular jPreaching , I feel some inclination to take a little further notice of
the objections to the plan and conduct of the " Unitarian Fund /' which appear to have perplexed the mind of A Modest Querist /' , Your correspondent asks in his second Query ,
<« Who it . ' to be responsible for the jealousiesy contentions , and feuds , which Unitarian preaching is sure to be attended with , if missionaries are sent into towns and villages to assemble the inhabitants for the express purpose of
Improving their mind * ? ' I beg leave to answer , that , in thfc case supposed , the managers of the Fund will be responsible if they 'neglect due diligence to ascertain not only the piety and virf ; q ^ , but also the judgment and discretion 6 f : those whom they
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employ . Nextr the missionaries themselves if instead of speaking the truth in love , under the guitl . ance of it sound mind $ n 4 a piure
heart they disappoint just expectations by indulging to any improprieties in their public or private conduct , and so suffer tl * eir good to be evil spoken of . If both these , as I trust they ever
will be , are blameless , then the responsibility will re&t with those inhabitants of " towns and vilr lages" whose minds are so unhappily organized as to change the natriment of tl ^ e gospel in to poi - son , and who , like some in our
Lord ' s time , convert nn instrument of peace into a weapon of contention . I have , np other solution of his diflRculty tp offer the Querist , I wish , tkjs ^ raay be satisfactory ; and f * n < le ? 4 > . 1 think it probabl ^ that ' long be fore
• The publication ^ of Matthews and Rathbtaac afford satwfottory etideiKtf ® ^ he truth of this atatcBftcnt . . '
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SMt 6 On Popular Preaching * : hi Artswer to d Modest Querist *
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br for not * adopting - ^ urtariljtfi principles , let them che ^ k thfe impetuosity of their ze ^ l by-a k-ecollcctiori of the alatm that has been reverberated in our ears > of 64 No Popery , Friends . 'V I should not have obtruded
these few hints in reply to R . F , for insertion in the Monthly lie . pository , had not somfc of the positions advanced by hiift appeared to me not only erroneous , but even hostile to the rights of
private judgment , consequently subversive of the cause he professes to defend A . PROTESTANT . r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/26/
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