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E %$ t * Whereupon the House was so far from returning him t&atifts that they resolved , that , fc + tfoe future rib person be
recommended to preach before this House wlvo is under the dignity of tr Dean of the Church , or hath not taken his degree of Doctor of Divinity , *'
I wish any of your readers could give Some further account of this magnanimous parish-priest , who certainly never became either Dean or Doctor . In the judgment of that sagacious House of
Commons , a clergyman could not arrive at either of those dignities without having forgotten , if he had ever learned , that < c all power was originally derived from the people . " It is remarkable that such a sentiment should have
been deemed a political heresy under a government created by a Revolution . POPULARIS .
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Unitarians at Watt ring-places . Sir , August 20 , 1811 . There has always appeared to me a want of propriety in one particular of the conduct of opulent Unitarians , which I beg leave
to point out in your work ; I allude to their choice of Watering . Places for summer visits * More in proportion of this sect than any other are accustomed , owing tp their good circumstances ^ to travel to the coast , in quest of the salutary breezes and waters of the
sea ; and yet I belive there is scarcely a single Unitarian congregatibn on the whole line of the British coast , which is signally beriefited by the visits of their wealthy brethren . Many
convenient and eligible Vv&te ^ i ng- places
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have , I am aware , no place of Unitarian worship ; but would n not be worthy of the zeal of your friends and fellow . professors to select those places where the True God is adored , and to sacri . fice some little of the pleasure of
walks or rides , to the pleasure of demotion ? Other places which have Unitarian meeting-houses may not have very refined or very popular preachers ; but is not the humblest true worship prefe r * able to the proudest pomps conducted on false principles ?
I shall say uothing of the dan . ger to a family , of disusing for weeks or months public worship ; or * of the inconsistency of those Christians who ^ if they be worthy
of the name , must , from their sentiments be a peculiar people , leaving their religion at home , whenever they travel : I will only state , further , that the
countenance of opulent Unitarians , from the metropolis and elsewhere , would revive our congregations on the coast , and perhaps lead many intelligent and worthy persons to devote a little of the leisure of a
country retreat to that enquiry into the Unitarian system , which they would never think of amidst the anxieties of commercial pursuits and the tumult of a town residence . Would but a dozen
wealthy families of the Unitarian persuasion agree to visit one particular watering-place , they might with ease establish , if they did not find , their own worship ; ana
were it kept up onfy for the summer season it would be of great advantage to the cause , —and this it might be by procuring the visits of about half a dozen ministers ijn jHiccessioja , some of whom would probably freely give thei *
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53 S Unitarians at Watering-places .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/26/
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