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MR . SEVERN TO MR . A . FULLER ; OST TUB ALLEGED INDIFFEREKC ? AND AVERSION OF " SOCINIANS , " TO CHRISTIAN MISSIONS , p u Tor tlte Moiithly Repository ,
To the Rev . Andrew Fuller , sii , Hull , April % g , 1808 . I have observed , that } ou are much in . the habit of treating those- whose religions opinions
differ from your own , sans eeremonie ; I shall for once follow tha sanae course . I do this by proposing to you a plain question , which stares a man in the face , as soon its it is brought in view . On what
authority , sir , do you assert that the Unitarians , whom you call , doubtless with an intention of shewing your respect , Sociniaris are inimical to missionary undertakings , for the propagation of Christianity in heathen nations ,
and more particularly to the mission in the East Indies , Under the direction of the I 5 aptist missionary society ? This strange
position you have attempted to establish , in the beginning of the second part of your " Apology ;" saying , amongst other things , ' * the cause of our opponents is favoured in most of the Sociniari
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publications , and * they are happily united in their wishes for government not to tolerate evan ^ gelickl religion . " The mode in which you set about the proof , or illustration of your crimination , is not a Jittle curious . Messrs .
Twining , Scott , &c . who are the oppa&ers of the East Indian mission , have made use of the term evangelical \ as applied to certain doctrines and their preachers , with marks of ridicule or disapprobation . A recent publication ,
written by a barrister , entitled c 6 Hints on Evangelical Preaching , " treats the term in the same style . Say you , not telling us by what means you discovered him in his anonymous guise , u the author is a Socinian
dissenter . ' What follows ? Since the barrister scouts the epithet evangelical ^ ill the same manner as is done by the opposition writers , in t \ \ e East India mission affair- — Therefore ^ the Socinians as a body , are unfavourable to any
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2 ^ 2 ! Mr . Sl everfi to Mr . A . Fuller , on Missions .
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aftd that she often calls herself thfc church by law established ifow .. the layman is respectfully called upon , to point otit any cl&use in the act of uniformity , ot any other of the acts alluded
td , by which his opinion can be sanctioned , that a subscription to the articles , is rendered next to a mere nullity by a subsequent ptomise to the bishop , that the party ordained , will make the scriptures the rule of his preach- *
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ihg ? If the layman eiiccVeds in thte task , * he may pluifte himself upon having made a discovery which had escaped the notice of all our former commenrators and
controversial writers on the 39 articles ; none of whom ever ventured to assert , that a clergyman , " is not in the least bound by his subscription to the articles , whera he thinks scriptural truth to interfere . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/34/
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