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past life have been , throw open the gates of heaven to his view , and bid hi ill confidently look to entering in ! The effect which a scene like this has upon the survivors who witness it , may readily be supposed * I have myself been present when the relatives of a man of the
worst description , have immediately , on his Heath , felicitated themselves on his being gone to a state of everlasting blessedness . I have said so much , Mr .
Editor , hoping that some one of your correspondents will take up this important subject who is more able to do it justice , and remain , Sic , your obliged , humble servant , M . H .
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Quaker Doctrine of the Trinity \ West of England , 9 th of 5 Mo . 1813 . Esteemed Friend , I am induced tosend thee a few remarks on a letter in thv last
number , signed A . B . under the head of < c The Quaker Doctrine of the Trinity . " Thy insertion of that letter is a fresh proof of thy candid attention to all thy correspondents , who may think they have any claim to be heard in explanation . But when an individual
writes on behalf of a whole societ }^ who are mostly unacquainted with his name , his undertaking , and his knowledge , he had need to be careful as to what he advances . I
give my unknown brother , A . B . some credit for good-will towards our Society , in supposing that he is clearing it from an unjust imputation , and vindicating its
consistency . He refers to a paper in a former number , wherein it is stated that cc member of our Society has been expelled for questioning the
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doctrine of the Trinity ; " a charge which he would indirectly repel by shewing that we disown that doctrine . The instance of expuL sion is too notorious to be mistak - en , and ( as many of us think ) too arbitrary and unchristian to be
justified . It doubtless alludes to that very respectable member of our Society , Thomas Foster ; a man whose moral and religious claims to social regar . d stand in no need of encomium , and whose
case as stated by his own able pen , on the principles of Christian liberty , will probably be printed before these remarks can appear . To that important publication , therefore , I would wish to refer thy inquiring readers .
My present motive for writing is briefly to animadvert on what A . B . has said respecting our Society , in allusion to the doctrine of the Trinity . He has rightly stated , that we do not admit even
the terniy as being no where to be found in the scriptures t - ~~ tha . t we have no Quaker creedi—and that the Society , as a body , never pretended to interpret the scriptures . The first of these assertions is
undoubtedly conformable to the testirtiony of our be § t writers , ever since we became a people . We have been , till of latq years , particularly careful to preclude , by this very argument , and by more
copious reasoning , the idea of a trinity of persons in the , Deity . We have deemed it a spurious innovation , of hutjnan invention , in the Christian religion . But though
our modern Friends reject the name , they appear to countenai ^ ipe the thing . This was too evident to escape our friend Thomas Foster ' s notice : and under a sincere concern at the growing innovation , he laboured to convince his
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3 € M > Quaker Doctrine of the Trinity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/22/
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