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complicated articles , * o the simple profession £ f ttieir-faith , ^ Some of your waders have doubtless noticed this account who are able to form more pro ! bable conjectures than myself with respect to the hopes for the speedy conversion of ihe Jews to rational Christianity which may be founded upon it . I remain , Sir , Your obliged humble servant , JYL H ,
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Society for Conversion of the Jews . Sir , In a report lately published by the London Society for the
Conversion of the Jews , we have various extracts from letters received from Germany , to which they appear to give undoubting credit ; and from one of these I copy the following , which they call an " authentic fact . "
* ' About ten years ago a particular party arose among the Jews in Poland , which has also many followers in some parts of Germany , and chiefly in Bohemia ^ tind they even asserted that a
branch of their association was already in Palestine . I have made acquaintance with a leader of this parry , who believed in Jesus as the Saviour of the world s and sincerely reverenced him . " Now Mr . Editor , though the
writer of this account seems entirely unmindful of tire inference which naturally arises from it , — can we call these men who acknowledge Jesus as the Saviour
of the world other , or less than Qhristignf ? though held perhaps in his opinion as undeserving of add many other mysterious and
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Quaker Doctri ? ie of the Trinity . Sir , The intent of my last communication ( pa 373—376 ) was to remove the erroneous impression A . B * s . defective statement ( p . 307 ) of the belief of the early Quakers was calculated to make on
such of your readers as were not better informed . The object of this is to lay before them a brief ,. but plain and comprehensive " Confession of Faith , ** which was
drawn up and " presented td the parliament ** in the year V 693 , on behalf of the Society of Frrehds for ihe express purpbse of clearing them from the iraputatiori of having imbibed c 4 some Socinian notions / ' What these notions
were I cannot precisely determine , but it is obvious enough from this document , that the real sentiments of its authors were not incompatible With the pure doctrine of Unitarianism , that there is only one living and true God , even the Father of oilr Lord
Jesus Christ ; for otherwise this confession of faith which was signed by above thirty members of th e , Society , of whom G < K > rge Whitehead , an erriinent miftbttf among them , wa $ 6 ne , is nothing to the purpose for which it Vf presented to the legislature .
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644 Quaker Doctrine of the Trinity
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cellany , and if it be the means of correcting one erroneous opinion , I shall rejoice as not having laboured in vain . Let us not then flatter and deceive ourselves with a vain philosophy , for the Christian scriptures have plainly declared , and it is a solemn and awful declaration ! that the wages of sift is death , eternal UEATH y but the gift of God is eternal life , promised to the righteous through Jesus Christ our Lord . J . S .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 644, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/20/
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