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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS. ^^^^
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setting aside all delusive evasions about waiting , f is really a command , f Here is a hint of disapprobation at the peculiar opinions of bis correspondent , who was one of the Society of Friends . In the Representation , &c . pp . 69 , 70 , speaking of a law in Barbadoes u to prevent people called Quakers , from bringing Negroes to their meetings , " Mr . S . adds ,
" though I am sufficiently aware of the enormous errors of the Quakers , having carefully perused most of their principal authors , yet am I convinced , that their charitable endeavours to instruct these poor slaves , to the best of their knowledge and belief , will reader them more acceptable to God , than all the other sects of nominal Christians ( howsoever
orthodox in profession of faith ) who either oppose or neglect the same . O that this exemplary charity of the Quakers ( however despicable their dbctrines appear in many other respects ) may provoke to jealousy and amendment those lukewarm Christians who profess and dishonour a more orthodox faith . " R .
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Sin , June 20 , 1817 . COMMUNICATION in your A last Number ( p . 284 ) , signed •« An Old Unitarian , " cannot fail of exciting some attention . I hasten to answer it , not from a desire to outstrip abler defenders , but because I am not an unhired advocate , t owe so much
to the kindness and virtues of those whom your Correspondent has attacked , that my silence would be both unjust and ungrateful . It is not easy to meet an opponent who insinuates at least as much as he asserts , ; who designates ambiguously the class to which he belongs , and that which he
accuses ; and who seems a perfect master of that covert mode of attack by which Gibbou and others did much more injury to revelation than infidels of greater frankness . Such a style , however it may pain and wound , is not favourable to friendliness in
controversy , for it seldom happens , as at the sacrifice of Iphigenia , that the knife is concealed from tenderness to the victim . Who are the old and the new Uni" tartans , of whom your tJorresportdent talks so familiarly , as if they were well known parties > From hi * Letter
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we learn little more of them than that the latter have very great faults , and the former very little charity , except for Calvinists and Churchmen . The terms are not new to me , but they are very variously applied . Some * times they merely distinguish age ; and certainly a Unitarian of sixty is
old compared with one of five and twenty . But this is not your Correspondent ' s sense of the term , for many of the " sociHts ambulanteSp * at which he sneers , owe their existence and prosperity to the powerful recommendation and exertions of such Old Unitarians as the late venerable
Dr . Toulmin , and others resembling him in character , talent , zeal and age * who happily still survive . I have sometimes heard those of the present generation called new Unitarians : but who that lives is more zealous or
active , more bold in stating unpopular , or more forcible in attacking popular doctrine ' s , or more open and heretical in politics , than Dr . Priestley ? Those who hold the pre-existence of Christ , are called occasionally Old Unitarians 5 and the highly respectable gentleman whose talents , literature , celebrity and character deservedly place him at the
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Mr . Fox in Reply to An Old Unitarian . 333
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which ought to be obeyed by all Christians , who hope to obtain w the exceeding great and precious promises * of being €€ partakers of the
Divine Nature" ) , will , altogether , prove the most effectual means of rescuing the poor lad from his spiritual tyrant : for « where the spirit of the Lord is , there is joibkrty . * And if he be afterwards taught to
read , and placed as an apprentice to some useful artificer , as a carpenter , smith , or cooper , &c . he may certainjy retrieve his character and become a useful and respectable member of society . I am , with esteem for your benevolent character .
Sir , Your humble servant , GRANV 1 LLE SHARP . Dr . Richard Fox .
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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS . ^^^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/13/
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