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blished such a little seminary of true religion , must be the commencement of heaven to you . I have suffered greatly for sounding the trumpet of Arianism in Zion , and protesting against a
three-cornered , triangular Divinity , but I do not repent of my uniform zeal % nd horror of Athanasianism . I had for a few years a small church in Bristol , which on account of
the odium of my sentiments , dwindled at lasf to nothing , and haying a wife and six children , I was fairly starved into a surrender . I took refuge in this town where I have lived comfortably and have flourished T My two volumes of the Introduction to the
Study and Knowledge of the N . T . are a monument of my industry You , Sir , have done me the honour in bearing witness to my integrity and love of truth in pointing out several passagesin my edition of the Gr . T . where 1 have
had the courage and sincerity to alter dr expunge obnoxious read . ings . \ Vith the same full persuasion of its being the true original TcudinsL 1 have inscribed in the
text o £ ( pocv £ gou ( l 7 ) . The same phraseology is used in the xvi of the Romans by the same writer , and shows that this diction was familiar to him . Crippled as I am by the palsy , I could not forbear giving
you this small testimony to the distinguished merit of your book , and sincerely beg of God to bless it and its author . I have prepared a fourth edition of my book on the Classics , which , if I live to
see it printed , for it contains many additions , I will beg your acceptance of a copy . Do not meddle with Abbadie ; he is too weak a creat ure for a person of youi : strength .
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Account of Mr . William Christie . 131
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Ci 1 am your delighted and very u much obliged friend " EDWARD HARWOOD . " William Christie , jun . " ** * « Merchant in Montrose . " * l * * msbury . u To the care of Mr . Johnson . " Mr . Mort ' s letter is expressed in the following terms . " Manchester , Jan . 11 , 1786 . € 6 Mr . Christie , " Dr . Sr .
€ t < About 70 years ago I was educated in the religion of the Assembly of Divines , but when I came to a mature age and had gained a moderate knowledge of the New Testament I could not but see that the religion of Jesus Christ was vOry different from that I had been educated in ; I there - fore renounced the last , and
embraced the other , and now for some years past I have thought that my fidelity to Jesus-Christ obliged me to userny best abilities to expose this corrupted system of Christianity , generally called Calvinism . 1 therefore endeavoured to get this Contrast which I now
enclose to you to have a place in the Gentleman ' s Magazine ; but could not prevail . I had therefore no other way to publish it than to gel a large number of threse papers printed and to disperse them . This- Contrast will be of no
advantage to you , but you cannot be displeased when I tell you , that I see Christianity in the same light as ytfu do , and you ought to be pleased when I tell you that your Discourses to prove that important truth—that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the one supreme God , andonly to be worshipped , are invincible , and still more confirm me in the belief of this important-truth . What a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/3/
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