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    existence of Christ ; and have been so for some years past . I find very considerable arguments on both sides of the question 5 and think it better to hesitate for some

    time than to decide hastily upon insufficient grounds . I am , notwithstanding , a most determined Unitarian , and have the fullest conviction of the Father ' s sole and supreme Godhead . Being in this state of mind when I wrote the

    Discourses on the Divine Unity , I endeavoured on texts of doubtful interpretation to state the argu ments of Arians and Socinians with all the candour and fairness I

    was capable of , that the reader might judge and determine for himself . I am however taking measures for the settlement of my mind , and to bring myself if possible to a decision upon this subject € i I propose to study the phraseology and various readings of the

    Old and New Testament with greater critical exactness than ever I have hitherto done : and also to peruse with care the earliest writers of the Christian church . This

    inquiry must necessarily take some time , as it . must be conducted with great coolness and -deliberation . If in the course of it I am able to acquire any new light , or to arrive at any farther

    satisfaction , I shall gladly impart it to any sincere inquirer after truth ; and to none more readily than you , Sir , who have done me the honour of writing me upon the subject . I shall be glad to hear from you oc

    casionally , and heartily wishing you that solid and well grounded peace of mind which arises from the serious belief and practice of rational religion , 1 remaip , " Dear Sir , ic Your obed . hum . servt . u WILLIAM- CHRISTIE . "

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    The Rev . Mr .. Master of —;— school , near Yorkshire . " The other two letters from ^ jpis gentleman are too long to be inserted in this Preface : but they do honour to his abilities as a

    critic , a scholar , and a man oi candour . He appears still to be undetermined with respect to the pre-existence of Christ , but to lean rather more toJVrianism than

    Sociniauism , and in the last of the two fie mentions , that his religious principles had obliged him to withdraw from officiating and worshipping in the established church . If this worthy

    clergyman be yet alive , he will have an opportunity ( though at a . long interval of time ) from the present work of seeing the result of my inquiries with respect to the prc-existence of Christ , and it-will afford me a singular pleasure , if he can join in my conclusion on the

    subject A . second and larger edition of the Discourses on the Divine Unity was published at Montrosc in 17 £ ) 0 ? of which r $ y friend Mr . Palmer was a zealous promoter , Thomas Fyshe Palmer , B , A . M , A . B . D . * fellow of Queen ' s

    College ,, Cambridge , and originally a clergyman of the Church of - England ^ was a younger son of an ancient and respectable family in Bedfordshire in Lngland . From his connection with persons of

    rank and influence , he might have risen to high preferment in the established church , could he have brought his noble and Christian mind to continue to submit to the

    yoke of a subscription to antichnstian articles of Faith .. But he generously broke his fetters , and asserted the liberty * wherewith Christ had made him free : '

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    134 Account of Mr . William Christie .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/6/