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in that sense alone , I wished to be understood in the letter . I had no intention in quoting your friend ' s hyperbolical expression , that there were not tivo in Boston , who believed in the Trinity ^ * to insinuate , that he wished it to be literally understood . I was well aware of his guarded explanation , and I do not think , that I unfairly
overlooked it in my remarks . But really , nay dear Sir , the difference between two persons , and seven large congregations of Christians , ( for large they are , ) is so very great , that I leave it to your candour to . judge , whether the foFiner , by the utmost stretch of figure and hyperbole , ' could , with any fairness , be substituted as any representation of the
latter . ¦* 'I * regret that I have not your sermon r ** ith thefnote at present before i » e . I vtwtve lent it to a friend . I was not aware that I had substituted your expressions tfbr ^ tiy own ; or , at least , that I
attemp-* ted to give them a construction , which t j jrou would not yourself fairly admit . I dm sure , my dear Sir , I had no other < object but truth ; and if I was mistaken . it was through haste and inadvertence ; net , I believe , through warmth of feel-• i lng , '' as you seem willing to suppose .
Though I am not prepared * at this iBffrly stage of my enquiries into religious truth , to state very precisely my opini-* 'tins upon any of the controverted points , jret 1 have no doubt you will think it a '^ irilicient answer to your question , why : I never spoke of a division of the Deity -into three different persons , or preached awofdof Trinitarian ism ?* ' that I
cannot learn how to reconcile these unscrij > - tural-and scholastic terms , with that simple and explicit doctrine of the apostle , " ?• There is one Lord , one faith—one baptism , one God and Father of all , -who is above all , and through all , and
in you alL " - —Ephes . iv . 5 . When I wrote the letter , to which you refer , I had , indeed been nearly two years in Europe ; but I had been con-^ trnually hearing * from numerous friends in Boston , particularly during my stay that winter , in London , At least , my dear Sir , I am sure I should have heard
to such a marvellous change as your c frlttid describes . For taking his own depressions in their most limited sense , ; ve should , indeed , consider it a won-^ otis Change , that «« ioo ministers , " ^ ntost of whorh , byliis own-description , - must have been before decided Calvin-
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ists ; all the ministers of Connecticut , at least beingsuch ) " at an annual meet , ing , " — ( and this the first they ever held , because no such convention ever existed before , ) ** declared themselves converte to the new doctrine : ' * and ,
Lastly , my dear Sir , in reply again to your question , when I wrote the letter , I had ; been graduated Jwe year $ y had been , according to the course of the University , a Master of Arts two years , and though not now , as you-suppose , a stated minister of the Gospel , had been licensed to preach by the Association of Boston Ministers . —1 will not trouble
you * though you seem to request it , with any further account of their religious opinions . —I will just say , in general * that with two or three exceptions , they are very much opposed to human creeds and confessions ; are men of great candour and Christian moderation , and would give a vast deal more for one text of scripture , than for all the articles of faith , that lathers and councils , with
Athanasiusat their head , have ever at * tempted to impose upon , mankind .- —It would be indecorous in me to speak too welL of the ministers of my native town . But as- it seems you have partly misunderstood me , I will just say , . that I ho . nour them much -for their talents and
virtues , but still more , because I believe , that , like multitues of pious , learned , and useful ministers in your country , they desire nothing so much as truth , and search the scriptures daily , whether these things be so . F .. P .
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Manchester College ^ York * On Tuesday and Wednesday , the igth . and 30 th of June , and on Thursday , the 1 st of July , the Annual Examination of the Students in this institution was held , in the presence of § amuel Shbre , Esqv Samuel Shore , jun . Esq . ( President ) , Joseph Strutt , Esq . ( Vice-president ) , G . W . Wood , Esq . ( Treasurer ) , T . H / Robinson ,
Esq . ( Secretary ) , Abraham Crompton , Esq . of Ghorley Hall , Joseph Dawson , Esq . of RoydV Hall , Robert Driffield , Esq . and Robert Sinclair , Eaq . of York ; Messrs . Bell of Overton , Bentley of Stockport , Dawson , jun . ofRoyd'b Hall , Hibbert , HollaiW , ai * d KAy '" of * 'Manchester * Kay , jtin . df BOltbri , Jevons ^ of X-iverpool ^ Ker and Martlrl' of Hall and ^ fitchell " of MewcastFc ; and int Rev , Messrs . Dean of Stand , Higgin *>
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/56/
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