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. I may here close this letter , " a ^> tfce Unitarian Fund is no farther directly concerned with the que * ries of your correspondent . If the object of that Fund be just and highly important , the managers must npt suffer themselves to
be diverted to other objects , however desirable . Such certainly are—the instruction of ** young persons in the original languages of the Old and New Testaments , " and a mode of education in the
fcerronaYich of Dissenters , ' which shall render " theology" para - mount to classical and mathematical lore . " But when the Querist proposes that " Sunday
schools and schools of'industry sljquld be attended to , and di * Tcctcd by Unitarian ministers" as a new project , I wonder where he can have passed his days not to Jknow what Unitarians have
attempted with encouraging success among the population of Birmingham , Nottingham , and other places -which offered scope to their exertions . Indeed , the more J consider the paper of " a Modest Querist , " the -more I suspect that he has { ived out of the Unitarian
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world , though he has happily discovered our doctrine perhaps while musing by " sedgy Cam . " or wooing fair u truth in Maudlin ' s learned grove / ' Nor is it at alt surprizing that " The * nan who stretch'd , in I $ is' calm
retreat , To books and study , gives seven ye «^ r $ complete , " should unconsciously depreciate the capabilities of the gmn , whose theology has been acquired in the college of fishermen , -and his litcra ?
ture in the university of the wojltf , By hazarding this conjecture I alarm myself . I , an ynmatricu ? luted wight , may have been dis , cussing questions of learned
import , with oi ) e who has not only tasted but drank dee p of " the Castalian spring . ' Should your correspondent be thus stout , I trust he will be mere ifql ; and I assure him , that unless I am
confirmed iu jny opiiyojis py his re . * joinder , whiph I sjxp . ll eegerly expept I will , with ypu ' r per * mission , fairly own myself ' cqr ^ rectedt Yoiir ' s . IQNOTUS ,
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322 Mr . Carpenter ' s Remarks on Mr . HehhanCs Strictures . Let . JIT .
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&&r PAUF £ NT £ S , ' s R ^ MA HK 3 ON MR . BEJ . SHAM ' s ^ TIIICTURES , ipTEit mf
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Old Swinffftd ^ sir , June 4 , 1808 . In this conglijdjng letter I wish to suggest some thoughts aspecting the pre-existeuce and atonejiient of Christy doctrines which my friend Belsbftm regards as ir * . rational- and yn ^ criptural ,. hut jvhich appear to me consonant . to f tje i > est 4 i ? t ( ite ^ . pf x ^ asou an ^ l •» ' T : ' "
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plainly reyealed in the gospel of Christ . Our pre-conceived notions of the probability or improbability of thesie doctrines , will have a con- » si ^ rable influence oi } our minds ^ JIV our iutejrprotation of those passage whichiiire adduced jn fo 1 * vour . of them . P / The materialist ^ wiro things tb ^ t therq U no r ^ n , ¦ • ¦ ' > ' ¦ * ,. '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/30/
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