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tgr&fnpecl in this respect ,, he will ieel higaself in trammels not easij y enckired * The subject of this article was , unquestionably , as far as
pecuniary matters were concerned , perfectly independent , and could have quitted the connection in which he was , without in the smallest degree deranging his dojnestLc comforts ; yet his hahits
were such that he could not , or , prohably , thought he could not , quit his station at Sailers' Hall without hazarding his future peace and happiness , and therefore endured , for a considerable time , that sort of interference to which
we have alluded , but not without deeply lamenting it . He felt there were persons of weight and consequence , in his congregation , who were suspicious that his sentiments jwereuiot so sound as they ought to be , or as they used to be . This fact is not mentioned
with the smallest ill-will to any individual ; the writer scarcely kijows the persons whose names
have been mentioned in connection with it , and is certainly not
sufficiently known to any one of them , to take the liberty of offering the commonest salutation in p ^ &siog them in the street ; but he is induced to make the remark ,
knowing what Mr . Worthington felt on the subject , and in order that the hint maybe useful to other persons xvho stand in similar re * Ifttions *
In the case of Mr . Worthington , the suspicion was perfectly groundless i few raen ever changed their religious opinions less than Ire . JJe begaji life an Ari ^ n , *
m * j m Mr . Wottfhington ' s class-fellows * t OavtMHry , twa , vie * the Rev . Ed-Ward Dewhurst ( sec aa account of this
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with regard to the person of Christ ; and was from his first entrance in the pulpit avowedly inimical to the gloomy doctrines of Calvinism . That he was not in the least care * ful to conceal these opinions all his stated hearers can testify . As far back as the year 1777 , the vyriter of this article can look , _ . i ii i n ~ i ' mr r — r * ' '
gentleman , in the memoir of his very extraordinary son , vol . vii . of the Monthly Repository , ) and the Rev . Benjamin Carpenter , were originally , like himself , Arians . Mr . Dewhurst continued in the same faith , till his death *
and Mr . Carpenter is almost the only person 'who , of late years , has thought Arianism worth defending , by means of the press . —{ Sec vol . ii . &c . of the M , Repository . ) The others , viz , the Rev . Mr . Fawcett , of Yeovil , and the Rev . S . S . Toms , of Framlingham , were Calvinists when they went to Daveritry , but are now decided Unitarians in the
strict sense of the term . In proof of Mr . Worthington ' s zeal for the doctrine of Arianism , we may observe that , in 1789 , he devised a plan to stop the progress of Unitarianism , which he and others , by a misnomer , denominated Socinfanism . A meeting was held at Chapel House , Oxfordshire ,
which consisted of , the Bev . H . Worthington , of London \ the Rev . B . Cai > penter , of Stourbridge ; the Rev . H . Crabb , of Cirencester ; the Rev . Mr , Geary , of Beaconsfield , and one or two others . Previously to the assembling of this synod , it was determined that one was to write a dissertation on € t The
Person of Christ ; " another on " Tho Personality of the Holy Spirit j a third on " The Atonement , ' ' and so on . Unfortunately , the subject of inspiration was started , and it was found , that the reverend divines , who were about to crush Priestley , Bel&ham and others , could not agree among
themselves on this , which wag regarded as the fundamental point from which they were to set out . After three days debate the meeting was dissolved , and the several individuals , it is believed , separated from one another , very much dissatisfied with their performance . The actors in it were afterwards always shj of speaking on the subject .
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. Memoir cfoth& . Uftt B& > - Hugh WorthingUni S 71
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 571, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/11/
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