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    So far from the Unitarian hypothesis being cold , it appears to me , most animating , as best suited to man ' s nature and wa . nts . I rentalri , Sir , Respectfully your ' s , &c . R-WRIGHT .

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    some important points of doctrine , as the one for the present year , it is not likely 1 should have sent you any strictures thereon . But as you inserted such as I thought applicable to the former , I have to request through your favour , the attention of your readers , especially of such as may be members of that respectable fraternity , to the comparative scriptural soundness of the latter , on the principal doctrines to which I have already adverted in your journal . * ¦

    The Epistle for 1810 , ( vol . v . p . 49 ( 5 , ) in the second paragraph , inculcates the duty of applying for help , under a sense of our manifold wants , not to ** the Fa . ther and -Fountain of all our

    mercies and consolations , the God of infinite cbnapasssion—the Preserver of men , who hears the prayer of the humble , " to whom it appears by former Epistles , their predecessors were wont to address their

    supplications ; buf to one , who himself received help from another , or as the Epistle has it , without farther explanation , to him upon whom help is iaid + *'}

    The Epistle for 1811 * ( vol . vi . p . 631 , ) with much more consistency with the precepts and example of Christ , recommends the 64 indispensable duty'Vof u

    waiting on , and worshipping God " Nor does it , like the former , intimate the propriety of endeavouring to apply to Christ in secret supplication , in the difficulties that must in a state of probation be the lot of all / ' Neither does

    it , like that Epistl ^ ppenly infringe the prerogatives ^ the most h * gh God , the- ( frtii 4 Qb $ * > by erroneously representing Christ , as having < c endowedus by n » -

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    7 lS Forerunners in the Abolition of the Slave Trade .

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    Remarks on the Quakers 1 Yearly Epistle * Sie % Nov . 10 , 1811 .

    Had the Epistle from the Yearly Meeting of Frientds / for 1810 , been as accordant io the general tenor of 'its former Epistles ^ on

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    Torenwners in the Abolition of the Slave Tirade . SlR Your correspondent Verax , has disproved ( p . 285—287 ) George Whitfield ' s claim to the ' eharacter of a forerunner in the abolition of the Slave Trade ; but there is a description of men entitled to the character , not noticed by him ;

    I mean the original trustees of the colony of iQ Georgia , last of the happy thirteen , * ' in 1732 , who , with Mr . Oglethorpe at their head , drew upl a constitution for the government of the

    settlement , one of the first articles of which forbad the importation of negroes * True , the trustees were moved to this , by seeing the dangers arising to the other provinces , from a preponderance of the ne .

    groe population : true , also , the colony wasted under this constitution ^ which was soon abolished : still , the historian of the abolition must record with pleasure every attempt , from whatever motive or with whatever success ., to supersede the use of African slaves in America . COLLECTOR ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 716, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/12/