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g ^ ttfakfd ttN ^ cfeurfife - ' ttew ^ p ^^^^ ttti s ^^ i ^^^^^ atoto . A 'member of tferi soeiefcf ^ Mr . A ^ ertdi ^) th £ h * brie % mentio ned the sftejra lyp wliiefih ^ ftfejr were led to ittviCe J ^ lr . Fosr fc ^* eskle amo ng the n * > ' a-acfr tt ?| dertake ike pastoral office . Mr , 9 ® x ¥ if--a short but animated address
signified hHaecepfc a nee of the invita-&on , declining to make any confession of faith excejjting that he was a Oferistian , and desired to be extensively useful as a Christian minister : which desire was the great motive to his removal from his late situation ,
to so public and important a station ir * the metropolis . Unfettered and unlimited freedom of inquiry he claimed for himself and would cheerfully concede to all his brethren . -Mr . Aspland delivered an able and judicious discourse from Matt , xviii . 15—20 , in which sound criticism
5 tnd an impartial appeal to parallel Scriptures , were employed to shew that the passage rightly understood yields no support to narrow , illiberal , and tyrannous systems of ecclesiastical polity - < y cfctt * eys no power to churches Qr ^ hu / chmen % Jo institute odious after
inquisition ^ supposed heresy , or to enforce any kind of religious uniformity : but that the whole , like every other part of the injunctions of Christ Je $ us , breathes the spirit of Christian liberty and love . It was earnestly wished by many who were present that this and Dr . Lindsay ' s
discourse stiould be published * both appearing to them eminently calcti- * latea for great usefulness . The yeiiefable Dr . Rees ^ ( father of tne Dissenting body in London ) , coa-^ J uded ^ he public services of the day , \ gith ; some very affectionate expres-^ on ^ of bis good will to the cau se at Parliament Court- *—his high regard ,
£ qt tbe quencipry of their late pastorand—the-. pleasure he experienced in anticipating the success and usefulness—of their present respectable minister ; ^ on ^ in ^ iid iu ^ them to the bleawag o £ i ^ Ji ^ ighty . God in fervent
grayer . ^ I ^ t ^ as - ^ ith high gratftication that ^ ijea rt } Tjti . | lees ex press his attach-^ m ! | fi ^ Jh 0- * kreat doctrine c £ tfa& l ^ pb ^ wfttyi Q ^ Goth in which ^ fftoti ^ hL 4 ^ © 15 ^ prtf ^ st ^ nce of Chri ^ , \^ declared hini $ eif to hive beeAr - ^ firm believer for fiTR ? year ©; and . hb
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religion , delivered . A warm e&l&giuiT * on Sir Samuel Rom illy ; -tfape © ft 1 igfel ? - » ened advocate of civil aad reJ % f « s «^ liberty , the friend of the miserable captive , and the enemy of sanguittani laws , was received ^ with lotvd " a ^ tl
distinguished applause- A ad « tfe «^ whole company ^ seemed to ente * felly into the spirit of one of the easiest sentiments proposed to the vfrte ^ h g ^ a sentiment which shouM be warmer cherished by every Dissenter ; - "F ^ S ^ CAUSE OF CIVIL AND RELIfrlOCS IIBERTY ALL OVER THE WORLD I - , . & . -
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Southern Unitarian Fund Society . [ : i . The Southern Unitarian- * Fund -Sim * ciety held its Second Annual JMeeti ^ g on Wednesday the § th instant , , ^ at 4 k& Unitarian Chapel , in the -HiglThSt ^ cAj Portamouth . Though we Uad lately sustaioed an irreparable loss , ipc % hfe removal to ParliameRt Goutt ^ . & £ tjie
gentleman , in w * bose w « l l ^ 4 ir € «^ t zeiaPaqd activity for the diSUaj ^^ tof Evangelibai truth , ti ^ e- society originated , jet the dayvvas , in every r ^ pect , consoling . Though we had also to lament our loss , by tbe renaovdl to distant situations , of thoSe gentlefot ^' who had been febfe ^ fl * Wk ' tpyfr in ft&m * ing and in proaioritig f tPlle > k \<^ ctf 1 > U&
society ; nod though ? afr the j >«< Ach ^ pathetically oiwerVcd ^ ^ ve h avl hun > g ^ our harps Gptnv t ^ w } ltews ^ -ye ^ hi > s «* . \ WiQ teinainfecl liail no etf 6 s 6 *> for de- ' spair ; for the attend ^ nre ^ t the tn * hmg service wa ^ verf respectable / art ^^ tW evening numerous . Mr . Hugh ^^ Bdw Y ^ t € ^< m ' pM& ^ kifHh ^ ^ o ^^ f ^ rt his u ^ uaT ^ jpersVtfcucyii ^^ ttttd" e * i er $ etft ** ttrt * f ** ner , rfttH 4 ti ^ WMA lp | it ^ tili ^^ cbur ^ c ;' ft < Jttt 1-jBhtf iV ^ ^ ^ Btt ^ Mrtiti ; -. » . *? , . - •<•
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/56/
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