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and conclusive reasonings . There are few J > ages in which the reader will hot find sQme passage to re * ward ftfs attention , though p ^ rhaps he may complain of the to flfbusiiess of pursuing the desultory track in which the author follows Mr . Be vans .
It ' , we conceive , less the design of Verax to prove that the Quaker Fathers were Unitarians , than that they Avere not Trinitarians . Their language it is true ,
was not always consistent with Anti-lrinitarianismj but neither was that of the early English Socinians , who have never been
claimed by the orthodox church on this account . For ourselves , we must declare , that the silence of Barclay on the subject of the
Trinity , noticed by Clarkson , weighs more with us in favour ot the hypothesis of Verax , than even th , e strong language which he has cited from Fox ^ Perm , Woolman and Penington . ( p . 84 . )
Although Verax complains , apd with reason , of some late proceedings of his denomination , he avows his predilection for their general pr inciples and discipline .
Hfc vindicates ( p . 201 , 2 ) silent worship , but expresses a wish that the Yearly Meeting would recommend the occasional public reading and expounding of the scripture ^ in the society . It appears thkt the author has npt been courteously treated by
his opponent , but we owe it f # him to say , that his reply is almost without an exception distiru guishedby vvrBanity and candour * We ^ re favoured m the Pre face with extracts fipmletters of Tlannah Barnard !^ to the author , which shrew her to be a wotnan of superior sen $ e and KaBittiat piety : with one of ttiese we shati
conclude this article , remarking only that a society which could spare such a tnembfcjy -Ought to be , rick indeed in the sndQwpienls of the head aod heart . ; ., ^ ' « At present ^ min e an 4 famfty ' s health Is comfortable \ ftlay . 1 % jiai&fally pme in
the blessing f We are irery stivi ^ o'er humble and peaceable habitation . I find constant employ in taking care of mj family afFairs and seldorn go put unless to visit a sick neighbour , which I consider a binding ChH&ian duty . We have occasional cal& froiril ouirfrfefid * in
town and country ; so vre do not lack agreeable society . Reading Continues t o be part of my pleading < tfep \ pf * rnent , and though I keepQtt neighbowriy social intercourse with the < K $ crent sects , consisting , in our little towil i b / CJhuilpish t Presbyterians , Methodists , and Baptists ,
and have had frequent invitations to Aeir meetings , I have never f < 9 iin 4 > k my place to attend , except once at an € vcn * ing meeting , when on a visit to fay daughter , I inclined to go and hear what the stranger had to say to the inhabitants of the wilderness .: and was
pleased to hear him observe , among other good sentiijientg , that , if mankind regulated their hearts and conduct by the strict rules of justice , mercy add humility , there would be an end of all wars . This sentiment , bo congenial tf my own , 1 could not but notice . " p . xii , liii .
AftT * II . Christ ' s Demand of Attention , and Undcrstaiidifigj illustrated in a Sermon ^ preached Nov . % 6 r 180 *? , to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters , in St * Saviour-Gate * Jfbrk . By William Turner . 8 vp . pp . 25 . Longman ancTCcC I 8 l 6 . ^ This Sermon is dedicated to the and no discourse could be better tudents in the York academy , entitled to their attention * , wit » fc Itefore whom it wa » delivered ; regard to their studies , the coa- »
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5 ^ 6 Review . —Turner * . * Sertybn aiYorJc .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 596, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2411/page/24/
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