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INTELLIGENCE.
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January loth , at his honse at Painswick * in Gloucestershire * the Rev * COHNEI ^ IXJS WINTER , aged 65 , who Jhad been minister of a dissenting congregation in that town for nearly 10 years : a man whose memory will live in the hearts of all that kpew him , and whose piety and benevolence were not only
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DECLARATION OF UNITARIA ^ ISE BY THE REV , JAMES ItONS j LATE PASTOR OF A CALVIN 13 T BAPTIST CHURCH , AT HULL .
THE REV . JAMES LYONS , late minister of the Baptist Church in George Streer , Hull , having changed his views of religious truth , and adopted Unitarian sentiments , made a communication to that effect to one of the deacons of
that church , on Friday , December ^ th , 1807 , requesting him . to inform his "brethren respecting it ; and stating that if it were agreeable to their -wishes , he would explain , the reasons of this change In public , but if not he wouloV continue
¦ with them a few months , or until they could procure another minister , and during that time , would engage to avoid controversy in the pulpit , and preach on those subjects respecting which they were all of the same opinion . Such however was their dissatisfaction on
receiving this intelligence , that he , the next morning , received a letter from the before-mentioned deacon , stating that he had mentioned the circumstance to the leading' persons in the congregation , and . that it was their wish that Mr . JLyons should take leave of the people « n the day following in the afternoon .
With this request he complied , and preached his farewell sermon to them from John v . 39 . «« Search the Scrips tures , " &c . After strenuously exhorting them to cultivate a spirit of Christian inquiry , at the close of the discourse he particularly addressed himself to the
. church , and stated that about two years previous to that time he had read some o £ the writings pf Mr . Wright of Wisbeach , and mentioned particularly thp * writer ' s . Essay on the Unity and Supremacy of the one God smd Father , and his Anti 6 atisfactioni « t . He represented tfcat the fordthla appeals to the scrip-
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tures , and the clear and conclusive reasonings of Mr , Wright in these publications , convinced him of the necessity of more closely examining , and of investigating with severer scrutiny than he had ever before done , several of his
religious opinions . He stated that he had read every thing that he could have access to , in that time , on both sides of the trinitarian controversy ; but while he acknowledged himself greatly indebted to the writings of fylr . Wright , in the first instance , and afterwards to those
of Dr . Priestley , Mr . Lindsey , Mr . Belsham , and several others , he had endeavoured conscientiously to form his opinions according to the obvious sense of the word of God . For this purpose , he said , he had read the New Testament through several times , examining with much attention the passages which are
usually cited on both sides of the question : the result of all this , he solemnly declared ? was a full conviction that the doctrines of the trinity , of the equality of Jesus Christ , with the Father , and of a vicarious sacrifice by his death for the sins of men , are not only without an / foundation in the scriptures , but ought
to be ranked among the - grossest corruptions of Christianity . Having stated his belief of the divino unity and infinite . supremacy of God the Father ^ and ti » -views of the mission of Jesus Christ , whom he considered as the son and servant of the living God , ) and expressed
his firm persuasion that the salvation and eternal happiness of men , are to be ascribed to | he unpurchased mercy and goodness of the Bather of the iiniverse , he concluded b ^ rtating that the friend * rfthi g which he had . e ^ p © rienc « 4 Jfroi *
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commensurate with his day& * tftrt in tfi&r effects and consequences will long siu > vive h « n .- «~ The Rev Mr . Jay , of Bath , has announced his intention of' drawing up his life , and requests rather oddly , from the religious public , the communication of anecdotes and letters of the deceased .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/46/
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