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his Arfan sentiments , but the Bishops , anff'particularly Arch bishop Ten nison , nobly refused to concur in any persecuting measures / though they agreed with the Lower House in censuring his works . In the year 1712 , Or . Clarke , rector
of St . James ' s , Westminster , and one o * * the Queen ' s chaplains , published a work in defence of Arianism , entitled , * The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity Considered . In Three Pans . The Pirst consisting of a Collection and
. Explanation of all the J exts in the JSJew Testament relating to that Doctrine : the Second , his own Belief on the Subject , set forth at large : and the Third , the Principal Passages in the Liturgy of the Church of Kngland relating to this Subject . Considered . ' * This book excited a violent clamour , particularly in the convocation , which
censured it as containing assertions contrary to the Catholic faith , as received and declared by the Church of . England concerning three persons of one substance , power and eternity in the unity of the Godhead , and passages tending to perplex the minds of men
in the solemn acts oi worship as directed by our established Liturgy . Disputes on other questions however prevented the convocation from proceeding any farther than to censure the book , and Dr . Clarke continued in the Church . He was a great favourite -with George II . and his Queen Caroline . During the latter part of his life he drew up in manuscript a
reformed copy of the Book of Common Prayer , striking out the Athanasiaix Creed and many other objectionable passages . This , was shown to Queen Caroline and highly approved of by her . After the author ' s death it was published , and with some alterations \ t has been used in a few Dissenting
congregations , particularly tor some time in the congregation in Essex Street , formed on the open declaration of Unitarian sentiments by Mr . Lj . idsey . The plan however of introducing either this or any other Liturgy into Dissenting congregations
has generally failed ; and it appears indeed to be in some degree contrary to tiie main principle of dissent , that a minister ought to be left perfectly free and unbiassed in the formation and declaration of his sentiments . If he be required to use a L , iturgv , he cannot
form his opinions without some bias towards the opinions declared in that form : or if his religious inquiries lead him to sentiments different from those on which the Prayer Book which h < t uses is founded , he must find great difficulty in declaring them . For these reasons the prescription of a form of
prayer either in or out of an Established Church , appears to have naturally a tendency to restrain the exercise of private judgment and free inquiry , and consequenily to be in , some degree a bar to the discovery aud propagation of truth . [ To he continued ' . ] I ¦ ^ i ¦ —~ - — i —¦—_^ M 1^—¦¦ ¦ - | - ^ M^^^—h ¦_ M _ I __ I __ MJ _ MI ¦
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Letter from Rev . T . F . Palmer to Mr . Riitt . $ 03
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Letter from Rev . T . F . Palmer to Mr . Rutt . Sir , Clapton , March 16 , 1817-EVER since I read the account of I Mr . T . F . Palmer , by his friend Mr . Christie , of Philadelphia , in your Vlth Volume , I have designed to offer you some further particulars , from the conversation and
correspondence of that interesting , and much injuted man . I now fulfil a small part of my intention by sending you the copy of a letter , -which was probably the last he wrote on board the Hulk , at Woorwich . It will serve to shew the ardour of his grate-
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ful mind which disposed hina very much to over-rate a few services which ,, 1 had the p leasure to render him , arul which I cannot recollect without acknowledging the zealous co-operation of my departed- friends , Mr . Lindsey and Mr . Joyce , Dr . Hamilton and Or . Disney , not to mention some who yet survive to serve their
generation . - When I first visited Mr . Palmer and Mr . Muir , in the autumn of 1793 , on board the Prison-Hulks , where they were separately detained , it was in company with a friend , who had known Mr . Palmer in Scotland , and with the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/11/
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