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but was corrected by Mr . Butterworth , the member for Coventry , who stated that he had good authority for denying its being unanimous , or being even the sense of the majority of the ministers . In
March , the ministers met again , and resolved that their petition had passed unanimously , and a copy of their resolution was forwarded to Mr . Butterworth ; upon which he gave up his authority for his statement in the House , to wit ,
the aforesaid Mr . Ivimey , one of the body of ministers , who had been present at both the meetings above specified . Hereupon , Mr . Iviitiey was put upon his justification ; and his defence , as far as we
understand it , is—that in 1812 the ministers actually divided upon a similar petition to that resolved on in 1813 , upon which they did not indeed divide , but upon which they might have divided—that he and several others ,
though they did not lift up their hands against the petition , wish they had done so , and for himself , he would have done so , if his fortitude had not forsaken him—and
that as the minds of all the ministers were known to be not favourably disposed to universal liberty ( including the case of the Catholics ) , the proceedings should have been marked by the word * nemine contradicente , and not by the word unanimously .
In addition to this notable self , defence , Mr . Ivimey turns accuser of the brethren , and shews the Trustees of Dr . Williams's Libra , -ry . the Presbyterians and the
General Baptists , that though he had not the courage to r ^ ise his arm against their petition , he is bold ecrtiugh to asperse theirdt ^ racters . Mr . Evftfis , in his Letter , c « rttcte th * misrepresentations and
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Art . V . The Salvation of Man by the Free Grace of God asserted and vindicated . A Sermon preached at the Octagon Chapel , Norwich . By Thomas Madge . 8 vo * pp . 66 * Johnson . 1812 .
Three propositions are laid down and argued ire this discourse : I . That all out blessings come from God ; II . That the pardon of sin proceeds entirely from his free
grace ; and III . That the only conditions of the Divine mercy are repentance , amendment and holiness of life . The preacher opposes the Unitarian view of God as a Father to the Calvinistic
scheme of imputation , vindictive justice and proscription . His discourse is entitled to- the pcaise equally of sound reasoning , ^ nd good writing . a . Several notes are added , tier the
Sermon , in one of which tfrfe ( Salvinistic doctrine of atorteitffcht is stated in the words of Cal ^ frristic writers , and some pertinent remarks are made upon Dr , ftjagee ' s Discourses : we notice this in
order to express our wish that Mr . Madge would fulfil his design ( pp . 57 , 58 ) of animadverting upon Dr . Magee in a separate pamphlet . It would be easy to answer all the real arguments of this desultory and shewy- polemic , and we commit him into the hands of Mr .
Madge , who wilt not , we hope , be unmindful of a pledge which the talents displayed in his sermon w induce his readers generally t * call upon hist to redeem *
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Madge ' s Sermon on the Free Grace of God . 343
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chastises the disingenuousness and bigotry of this No Popery railer , and 4 * takes leave of him with a piece of salutary and evangelical advice- —Sin no morey lest a worse thing come unto tkee .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/59/
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