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Friends ; but in Christian love , and the most sincere good-will . May they be received aivd regarded in thfc same spirit ; then may I hope for the real satisfaction of not having written in vain . CANDIDUS .
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Quakers Accounted Socinians . March 1 1811 . Sir , Mtrch has lately been written , in your Magazine , on the religious
creed of the Quakers . Perhaps , ihe controversy may be shortened by your reminding the disputants that this people never had any creed , and that it is their glory to have been creed-less . How any one acquainted with their early
writings can imagine them to have formerly held the doctrine of the Trinity , I am utterly at a loss to conceive ; nor can they be proved to have been Sociniam in any other way than as they were Scripturists , preferring the letter of their Bible
to the traditionsuand decrees of the popish church and semi-popish churches .
Yet they were certainly considered by theological writers ^ heretofore as agreeing generally with the abbettors of Socinianism . Of this we have a proof , in ' Berriiaan ' s Historical Account of the
Trinitarian Controversy , ' published in 1725 , Having stated the expulsion of the Sociniantffrom Poland , 1660 , he adds . —
< They have not , indeed ,, been able from that time to form any very formidable party , or engage the secular . powe r * to support and patronize them . The most that
is any where allowed them is a bare toleration , and even that is generally denied ' em ; whilst they ? re considered as the open ene-^ ol . vi . t
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mies of the Christian name , and their blasphemies unfit to he endured by those who have any reverence for Christianity . I take this to be the ground , why the zmpugners of the doctrine of the
Trinity are expressly excluded from the benefit of our act of Toleration . And if the Qwakezis arc included in it , notwithstanding that deep tincture of Socinian " - ism w 7 dich seems to run throvgh their hypothesis , ( which I choose
thus to mention by the way , that I may be excused the treating of them more at large ;) perhaps this might be partly owing to the intrb . cacy and obscurity of their opinions , which are as little understood by other people as generall y by themselves . ? J ( pp . 4 l 7 3 418 . )
I shall not remark upon the meek spirit of this true soi * of the Church ; all that I quote him for is to shew that the union of Socinianism and Quakerism in the same person is no novelty . I am , Sir , a f riejid to the Friends ^ though not altogether TREMULUS .
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Quakers Accounted Socinians . —On an Article in Flowers Review . 161
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On an Article in Flower ' s Review concerning Mr . Howard * March 1 . 1811 . Sir , I little expected to have troubled you with another word on the subject of Mr . Howard . But looking into the ' Political Review *
for Februaryy just published , I fiiid - a writer refermgfio the Monthly Repository / for December , 1810 , and describing the ' * account" I sent you " in an extract from Dr . Clarke ' s Travels" as incorrect in every circumstance except that Mr . H . died and was buried and that " captain Pxiestman , ot tlwt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/33/
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