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L , * 0 ot «^ tmt pM > Sir , Cfe ^ 'Tf ^ : . ^^ l ^ m A ^^^^ ^ ym r ^ j a positive answer to th is K L «^;^ - ^^ TP ^ yAe Brble in tbi ^ far distant , E of England ? Although lery old ^ I arr ' i quit * on tiptoe to Leive youranswer , for , sheuld | tbe in the affirmative , will it not lollop ( for so it seems to my sim . lie fancy , ) that the worthy au-Ihor has virtually asserted one of ¦ these two things either that the Bible is not of itself a sufficient fciard againstthese pestilential herlesies , or , tfiatthe peculiar doctrines tour Articles and Creeds , which ¦ form a " prominent part of our Kkurjeh Liturgy ^ are not in the ¦ Bible ?
I Now , Sir , if you can clear up ¦ ny doubts on this most perplexing ¦ object , yott -will greatly oblige p who is no scholar , nor , in ¦ roth ; entitled to any other signaftoie than that of a well-meaning , oughsomewhat inquisitive I OLD WOMAN . Wonder Ba ll , mike Northern part of England . H- ^ , .
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WMmt of the Toleration Act I isyektim to Quakers . I Sift > Ocf . 6 , 1811 . I I have long thought it highly Potable that the justly celebrated Pr- Eocke intended his excellent [ Won Enthusiasm , in his in-Puuable work on the Human
Paerstahding ; for thft special iwfifof the Quakers , to whom it fy yet be ; after the Mpse of so p ! years , peculiarly instruc-| ve - But I did not knbw , till I P » m last No . that he had any r «< iticed them as a dis ' tirict pty . Nor is it perhaps in
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my powder satisfactorily to . explain tt | e circumstances alluded to by kin } , and quoted by one of y 6 ur correspondedt « ift p * 5 * 28 * I am , however . fnclirie 3 to
think Mr . Locke was misinformed as to the cause of a confession of faith being imposed upon the Quakers in the Act of Tolera - tion . He states , u that this
declaration would not have been imposed upon them but for an interference of some of their own Society ^ which others ^ eminent aniong them , highly disapproved /' The object of those who acted on this occasion on behalf of the
Society , was not so much to pro * cure the insertion of such a clause ia the Act , as to modify a still more objectionable test which was proposed to be inserted , with * out any interference on their part . The difference of sentiment which
Locke speaks of , could , I thlhk only have arisen after tb £ passing of . the Act , and at all events related , not to the clause with which the Friends who attended the
House , " found thd Bill ' clogged , * to use their own expressive phrase , but to that which was inserted in the Act . A coinparisrin of these with each other , will evince how objectionable the early Quakers deemed " the doctrine of the
coequality of three persons in the Trinity . They even conceived the clause , as first proposed , was purposely intended by the 4 C high " churchmen" of those times , "to exclude them from si participati . on in the benefits of this Act , "
And had they not , like many other Unitarians of that age , who had also renounced the' doctrine of the Trinity , under every krtbwii modification of that ten ^ t ^ sfitl adhered to the name , as fitly de-
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F Iccmint of Hit ^ Toifratioto Act , in relation to Quakers . 653
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/13/
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