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mental in promoting ^ * knowledge of the truth * 3 aiyfc more especially tt ^ pia ^ ti ^ e < o £ virtue ^ " -. tape ** 4 fec « - V IWCOMENSIS *
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Ow Aie Quakers * ' Yearly Epistle * Sir , Pe 6 . 10 , 1811 . 1 was gratified by ' . reading in some of your late numbers free bat serious animadversions on the Yearly Kpistle of the people called Quakers . A co-respondent , un »
dex the signature of Btemtoquns ^ who writes in the style and character oC ope of that body , in the J ast Supplement , ( vpL vm p . 647 . ) I regret to , say has by the tri fling nature of his remarks , failed to do , my credit to his brethren :
nor can I suppose that the most seosihie members pf that respec * . i ^ U ^ spsiety ccffxid 4 ayejbei ? n pri vy t § fp fefblp 3 n < l < evasive a reply to '< Aft Wnitariaiii Ghnsti ^ ii ^> ; . rel a ^ ) k $ Iptheip ^ ssage | . npticed i ^ ^ that TOt € 5 r in ijjbei ^ last Yearly Epistle * The additional renaarks , in y aur i )
l ^ st number ( , ;;( pfr ^ by Pacificus ( , ^ h ^ her iirpiQ ^ e ^^ aime pen as the % ^ ier , or np |^ ^ pj ) f ? ar , tao in * . Qon ^ t jtp , ^ e ^ i ^ e ^* dte 4 l ^ y the ^| dicl a ^^ " C ii ^ t ^ l ^ " ent among tlie J > lfin 4 s . ; -ijj ^ gtft ^ y wil l excite An ^ uch of t jM $ lf wemb ^ rs , some sen ^ jis ^ ait ^ tif ' ^^ ^ othipg is rapr ^ Wr ^ ia tjt ^ i | t | bat ^ verjr r ^ igi ^^ society K ^^ j aT rjgfrit to , o ^ seyy ^ ^^ fe thei ps # lves f sucJi . modes
a ^ d , praptice ^ ^ , thejr n ^ ajr collepr # ely , de ^ t ^ mp ^^ t , provided ? fl ? y k ^ p cjeair of an ^ pro ^ d-WJg ^ wJjtMfii - have ^ , | tbi ) idency , to treiych qppn SQ # p \ orfl ^ r ^ nd irue P ^ rUtiafli , libe rty , tew systems are so perfect ^ not to admit of ? ° ^ e improvement j , but innova ^ fco ntytm long agprpyed practice , ^ ffc ^ M m # b $ fw cstablished . by
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JB&ve arid judicious persons ^ on tti € j principles of ratj p nal liberty , should eyer be made with ;^ the greatest caution * 1 hisjrutei , I cphr sider , as in some degree , yjolaicd
among the Friends by t ] b ^ modern attempt complained o ^ in not giving to their Yearly E ^ i stl e j tli ^ ancient advantage of . more deliberate reading in their annual as . serobly . And had jxot this ^ eeh the case , on the last occasion ,
tckanot but think , with Pa ^ lcw * ytli ^ i ; the blemish , pointed oi | t . so clearly by . V An Unitarian Cferistiari ^ would have been prevented Aiiiy such unwarmntecj description of tbq Ignite Attribute * : '& Chri s ^ among the moderp ^ i ^ i ^ Is ip be > regretted ; andf I re | iit it ifee more , as bjeiiig inconsistent with the simplicity of their . antiefirt ; scriptural theQlo ^ r ^ and ; % he geu neral tenor of iheir dottrines ..
If it has been th ^ ir practice , [ jfy perhaps may , have \ been the case , not to determine points in | heir deliberative assemblies byv oftiy df | - vision of numbers , ft ^ fi ^ a ^ iiij | t ^ question , evm of their society - discipline s it m ^ y n ot be { uiwc « Blw df . th . ^ irCon ^ delrati <^ 'ibp # faf . fb 4 w
. practice may be most wise and salutary . It is possible some advantages may be lost by it ,: I |(( JhaSpvCT been deemed of importance in other graye assemblies , to d ^ te ^ mine ikipdrtant mattery by thtf { kit judgment of the members constituting jsuch , as&emblies : neitHer ^ can I
think that a mode so natural ^ if seriously exercised on occasions of general importance , cou ^ be inconsistent with the solemnities of religious determinations . , Btit if some of their most respectable
mefl ^ bers be of a differc ii t opinion , they surel y vyilj not contend for the advantage of narrowing the
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Out the Quakers Yearly Epistle * \ 5 %
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/31/
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