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i& hvrife i */* 0 t&ers of , f $ tiJi aacl the p ^ fc eticajo denial of „ the $ uffifitwcy ° f tie sQri ptwesJ But aUowiofc the author his
" Let the friends of evangelical truth steadily and zealously support the cause and , th £ y , need not fear the intrusion of those who
oppose it . It is a suspicion too dishonourable to beanduiged ^ respecting those persons whose theological opinions we most strongly reprobate thkt if the door of our
institution Were thrown operi ^ they would enter it , for the sak ^ of artfully changing its nature and its objects . An Arian , a Socinian , a modern Unitarian , would , never think-of becoming a member wilh any such view . Nor wfc > uld a
Calvinist deem it fair or . honour , able to give his support to institutions , of Which the avowed principle are foreign to his own , with the \ hope of forming , a party to overturn thje original design /'
On the effect o £ th < e requirement ° fsubscription upon by-senders , ^ e author relates , that when the Renting mipisters formerly applied to parliament-for relief from subscri ption to the articles of the
yNrch of England , it was . urged in one of the deba ses , > that the Renters had a test among tli ^ mse ves for the admission of btudqnts : in ^ o tfxeir academies / p . 32 . H further , a * ks , f' whi \ t im r press jot * tb e existence of this law p produced wh ^ re it has > be eji ^^ f ^ jjmmmt ^ ^
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is lik ^ ly . to produce among * tho&e * whose theological views * arc moat widely difffewnt from ours f Your reply $ I know , will be far it is
th ^ fac t , that the articles , so faf as ^ . t h ^ e y ape known , excite th ^ ir diftgust atK ) derbion 4 The Uni » - tarian Society' can support it * principles without any such test , and the member of-iti with ^ t > nWi
appearance of evidence , consider this fcn ^ e set about our l imi ^ a « a tacit and involuntary confession of the weakness of the cause , Hence , as well as from other
cause ** , their young-people ate accustomed ,, with all theit avowed love of free- inquiry , to consider what is called Calvinism - which
they unwarrantably identify with the rules of a particuiar society , as xinworthy their attention and investigation . " P . 31 . 6
By w The Unitarian Society /* we suppose the author intends the ., London Unitarian Book Society \; he is hot , probably , aw * are that this * institution embraces but a small
proportion of th £ Unitarians , even * in tike metropolis ; we wish it included a greater number . And hi a
may satisfy himself that the youthi anqongst . the Unitariar > s whetkef they inquire into Catvitlism or not , never confound ft with the Ho ~ , merton Articles , of which we will ^
venture to say , t ^ at npt one m as hundred ever heard . It is bu ^ justice 4 o the Homer-r ton Academy to state , that all ' thfe students are not required to sufti scribe to article ^ but onl ^ f suc h m * are on the foundation of the KingV Head Society . What prppottipn these bear to the whole nuttiber .
we are not inftnrmed * . For the honoux of the dissented * in gepem \ r , yv * s hcp ^ that the piecp of Tac 9 W ^ ttnoyL ; i >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/47/
