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better than to require of convert * to his religion any such proofs bf being sound ia the faith . Nfci * is the birth of Christ represented any where in the New Testament as
supernatural , or properly miraculous . As to his holy life , wonderful works , blessed example , meritorious death , glorious resurrection , ascension and
mediation , as set forth in the scriptures , 1 know not that there is any controversy among professing Christians , nor was there any between the seceders alluded to in this
minute , and the society . For what purpose then are these things introduced ? What end are they calculated to answer ? No difference of opinion respecting them , or any of the other articles
of faith , mentioned in this Minute , was alleged at the time as forming any part of . '« the grounds of dissent or disunity with the body , " which led to the separation of
which it speaks . Can such an enumeration , then I would ask , answer : any . other purpose , than unjustly to , asperse the separatists , and to misrepresent the causes of their dissatisfaction with the body ?
It was not , as the meeting must have known , any such causes as these , which led to the separation of so many persons who filled conspicuous stations in the church ; The grounds of their disunity % were widely different , and such as the
meeting did not chuse to explain . They are , however , upon record , and therefore all attempts to conceal or misrepresent them , are as weak as they are disingenuous . S ^ p > Wm . Rathbone ' s instructive H iNarrative of Events , that have
lately taken place in Ireland afi&ong the Quakers ^ with : correst ponding documents , - and occa-
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sional ; Observ ^ iofr& . HJofths ^ London . 1804 : ¦ "" Nor was there any dispute between the secrdeVs and the
society , relative to the " eternal divinity" of Christ , or his " unity with the Father . " Neither c * f these propositions was asserted 6 ti the one hand , nor denied on the other . But after a lapse of ten
years these novel tenets are difectefa to be proposed to such of them as may be desirous of being restored to the unity and fellowship of the Society . If any of the seceders were so mclined , which
is , 1 understand , doubtful , they may think better of it in consiequence of these preliminary con * ditions , which , if their eyes haVe
been opened , so as to see clearly r they may well hesitate to accept . For what is it they are required to do , to give " full proof" that they are 4 * sound in the faith ?** To ascribe to the same Bein £
mortality and iQ eternal divinity *" What is there in transubstantiatioh or any other doctrine of the Church of Rome , inore unscriptural , more irrational , or more self contradictory than this ? 1
As to the * ' unity' of the man Christ Jesus , with the Father , " in doing and suffering his will , and in accomplishing his glorious design by the gospel dispensation , all Christians are agreed . But the unity asserted in this modem Quaker Creed , is that of one
Being supposed to possess «* eternal divinity , " with another who is therein represented as " the Father . " This is surely to imply the existence of two co-equal and coeternal Beings , but as a third is not also acknowledged it falls short of the Oorthodox doctrine of the Trini ty What fresh effort ^
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D 1 © Progress of the DoctHwe ^ 6 fiht Trinity amongst the Quakers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/38/
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