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A 2 tf ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF RATIONAL RELIGION I 1 ST AMERICA ; BY AN UNITARIAN MINISTER , WHO TRAVELLED IN THAT COUNTRY . '
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To the Editor of the Monthly Rep ' ository *
SIR , Upon the authority of Mr . Christie , in your account of Unitarianism in America * , you make IVir . Freeman ' s ordination at
Boston to have happened about fifty years ago . This is an egregious mistake . * For we have not yet seen quite twenty years since that event took place . But , before I proceed farther ^ you will suffe r jneto relate some previous circumstances . Mr . Freeman was a
young man , when lie was chosen by his church to be what they then called their reader . As he cherished a generous love of truth , and was courteous , sociable ^ and friendly , and always open to conviction , he became a member of the Bostonian Association of
Ministers , who regularly assembled every Monday and freely conversed -wpon all subjects , every one . declaring his sentiments without offending or being offended . DoctqiS Chauncey , Mather and jLathrojp , and Messrs , Clarke , Evejpit , Eliot , H * ui Smith , formed the
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printer or publisher is- notified . Under such Circumstances , it U no wonder if truth makes a very slow progress in the world . And we learn to reflect with pleasure and with gratitude to Providence , that we have fallen into times
more propitious to the investigation , profession and spread of it . I am Sir , your ' s , &c . JOSHUA TOULMIN .
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principal part of that venerable band of brothers , who were true whigs of the old stamp , and who , whilst they displayed the most amiable manners in their mutual
intercourse , were firmly united in Christian fellowship . They indi ^ vidually agreed to differ , and maintained this moral and truly religious principle , that every man should be folly persuaded in his own mind * Some of them ,
therefore , studied the writings of Pncstley , ~ whilst others of them to , whom these writings were not so familiar , expressed no sort of enmity when they incidentally heard what were the leading doctrines which he taught . Such was the state of things at Boston , in the year
1783 . " In that year , Mr , Fifeman ' s congregation ^ who had been trained up in all the tenets of iiigh-churchism , were solicitous to have him receive episcopal ordination . But , he would not subscribe the 39 Articles , nor could he submit his conscience to the domination aud capricious
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302 State of Rational Religion in America ; . ^
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their illiberal and persecuting neighbours . " No publisher ' s or printer ' s name appears in the titlepage of some of Mr . Biddle ' s earliest Tracts . And 1 observe that ,
in looking into the volumes of a collection of pieces , called u The Unitarian Tracts / ' that appeared at the end of the 17 th and beginning of the ISth century , from about the year 1691 to 1707 , no
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** p cr 1 £ 5 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/10/
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