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    ¦ ¦ kxy 0 tm Briice on the Article on " l ¥ i $ h Unit&riansS' * . ; Belfast ^ June 10 , 1813

    Sif t , ¦ When looking into your Repository for Dec . 1812- [ VII . 753 , ] I find my name introduced in a manner liable to misconception . It i $ one of those instances in

    which your readers are often misled by the usurpation of the title of Unitarians on the part of the Socirii&ns . This is a continual stiurce 6 { confusion in your

    publication , and sometimes exposes it to the suspicion of disingenuity . As I decfept of the denomination of Ari&n , without subscribing to the cir ^ ed -of Arius , I shall take the

    liberty df Addressing you as a Socinian , wltnotlt insinuating that you tfddfit ' any opinions of Sdcinus wnicli you disavow . * fL Thfe ! conftision arising from this

    ttfmvbcal lise of the word Unitarf&n appeared of late very retnark * ^ y in ' your American corresj # Jhdetic £ : and as you' candidly

    corrected that misrepresentation Wfchf respect to America , I hope ybpi \ v ? Il hot refuse a . speedy insetti dfa of what I have to say conc ^ Fning . Ireland .

    I have a very general knowledge oftne Dissenters of this country , antf can venture to assert , that fliers is not one Socinian con ^ re . gation in Ireland . ' In the South , etn Assdtiation , one or two ministeH and about a dozen of the laity to ' ay ^ titehain shch sentiments . Wtfre ^ Ndtt&qrn counties , which

    contain betweea 400 . 000 and m $ m P ^ % ibrians , including feeders , V'ko ^ 6 i know of one minister who denies the pre . exisfence of our" * fcordrtfarough I am i ntimately acquainted and connect-

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    ed with the most liberal" diyinejs of that body . The Methodist ' s , Cig . venanters , Moravians and Evan , gelical Societies cannot be suspected of Socinianism ; and the Quakers have of late been anxious

    to disclaim that doctrine . As to my late much respected colleague Dr . Moody , , and my valued friend Mr . Philip Taylor , who are particularly mentioned by

    your correspondent , the f > rmer has recently , for himself , and his worthy associate Mr . Armstrong , obviated suspicions of this kind , to which Arian ministers who do

    not entertain their people with controversy are liable , in a manner highly satisfactory to his respectable congregation ; and the latter has always adhered to the

    sentiments-of his grandfather , the learned Dr . John Taylor of Norwich . I bave also been long intimate with the minister of Clonmel , and never had any reason to suppose , that he inclined to Socinian principles .

    The excessive spirit of proselytism , which actuates so many of your correspondents , is not always confined to the living . It is a favourite opinion among them t ^ at Newton and Locke wereSocinians .

    The evidence for this is brought forward in your number for July , 1810 , though , I think , little tq the satisfaction of the writer him <* self . Sir Isaac Newton is claimed

    on the strength of verbal expressions , which he is said to have used to a Mr . Haynes . For the truth of this traditionary evidence we

    are referred to a Mr . Baron , hirntfelf " a Socinian , , who says , t ^ t ^ I r . Haynes , from whom he , haci it , wsis th # hiost * zealous Sbcinian he ever knew ; and therefore surely not an unexceptionable witness .

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    * Dr . Bruce on the Article on € C Irish Unitarians ^ 9 615 j .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/27/