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have rea ^ oi * to lamen t the decline which lias been so much regretted in Presbyterian congregations , but that notwithstanding the mass of misrepresentation and cal tunny by which we are assailed , our numbers will continue to increase .
Nay , I am decidedly of opiniony that the very circumstance pf . ; Uni * tarianism being a sect every where spoken against , will be the means of spreading a Berean spirit through the wfyole Christian church , which
will lead many from darkness to ligfyt , and who will be compelled by the honest convictions of their understandings to join our ranks * At all events our societies , be they
numerous * or otherwise , will be composed of persons who will be abiq-to give a reason of the hope which is in them . I am , Sir , A Frjjcnb to the Ca ^ use of GfiKiriNB Christianity .
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Articles of the Churchy Calvin " istic . Sxr , Feb . 17 , IS 13 * In Mr . Nichols ' s " Literary A . n ^ ecdaotes of the Eighteenth
Cent y > " ( w ^> . £ ) are several letters frairj Dr . Richard Kjnight to Df * Zachary Greyr a clergyman well known tyy his animadversions on Ntal > " History of th ? Platans , " and his nvtes on Hudibras . In
the following passage Dr . Knight eyprte ^ es aft opt io n very opposite io > tb ^ t of a n ^ frdern bishop of thjQ safc ^ p church , I > r . Prettyrnau Tomlii ^ e . Dr . JKJ . iiid e ed , agrees exactly wilh T ^ opl ^ y in hja , " HistQFJc tfrooL "
•• 1 / eaniuot but be of Jfr . N < 5 » i s oj ^ moo , m * u > t , 9 iu a /^ iclp . -Jh ^ ^ oq ^ pilm r of . them wtfc cCTt ^ D ^ y Cal yii ^ ists , ah <( tAcr ^ cfcmriije Utfttid ^ in . some of tkcJm ft rffttfe <^ Wio ^ to bhan <^ ratrnt r than any design in ttamtacrfewtor ' thffffr
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of a contrary opinion . Till about the time of ArchbishQp Laud the c ] ergy were universaJly so . I had once occasion to consult all our authors of any
eminence within a large space of time , till about 1620 , and did not meet with but very few that had not been thoroughly tinged with very narrow notions relating to predestination , free will . &c "
The partial adherence to Calvinism among the early as well as the late Nonconformists is thus described . " I find among the Anabaptists , for a long period , there were some who opposed Calvinistical doctrines beyond any
sect whatever , and they still continue so to . do . The late ingenious Mr Gale "was pastor of a congregation in London ^ where they have always been great sticklers for the remonstrant prniciples .
As far as I have observed , the Presbyterians are pretty lax as to the quinquarticular points '^ but the Independents otherwise ; nay , ' Neal himself is not reckoned a Calvinist , at least not a strict one , by , his own peopled '
This Letter is dated Btuntsham y near St . Ives > March 24 , 1733-4 , . Dr . Knight was rector of Blunts ^ ham . He is well known by his Life of Dean Colletty 1724 , and the Life of Eras ? nus , 1726 , The
latter supplied Jortin with many biographical materials for his own Life of Erasmus . Dr . Knight died in 174 $ , aged 71 , asappears by an inscription in Bluntsham Church . SELECTOR :
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Quaker Doctrine of the Trinity . Sir , May 5 , 1813 . Scarcely ajny thing manife » $ s raore plainly the latent , but grow .
ing , dissatisfaction with certaindoctnnes reputedly orthodox , ampog the thinking part of those w *) o st 4 l pxojfe ^ s to ^ eii ^ v ^ ihein , tfr&n tfce frequ ^ i li a ^|^» pts su ^ la persons n ? $ k $ 9 ! ti ^ giv ^ tkpm <* ' raor * ia-
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Arliclifr of the CJiurtJi , Oafvinistie ; 373
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/17/
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