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Letter from Mr. Fry to a Calvinistic Minister, on his want of Charity.
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Mr * Pry to a Calvinistic Minister . 330
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of society * ** &c . Who have suspected this ? Who are suspected ? Where are the proofs ? No man should have whispered such a suspicion without being disposed and able to answer these questions . At such a time as the present , he who could give such a hint should have been prepared to volunteer as an informer and a witness . Better at once to draff the
culprits , if such there be , from the chapel to the Court of Justice , than to expose a whole sect to the evils of dark and undefined accusation . Who knows what" ministers some may think are here intended ? Who knows but that local circumstances may give a point to these inuendoes by which the character , usefulness , comforts ,
and prospects of a respectable man may be destroyed , and his personal liberty endangered ? And this is done by one whose ' * Christianity admits of no connexion with politics I" Sir , I am no friend to the use of physical force , but I love civil and religious liberty , and
have not learned , like your Correspondent , by misapplying" Scripture , to cRange the epistles of Paul into the Qospel according to Hobbes . How amusing his aversion to Bonaparte , to whom , i « certain circumstances , his concluding political Christian principle would have made him his as
well as your " most humble servant !" Censures on a fallen or a banished uian come ungraciously from one who is avowedly slavish upon principle . Should their fortunes change , he would of course change also , seeing that " Christianity admits of no connexion with politics , except th&t it
enjoins that every soul be subject unto the higher powers" Were Bonaparte crowned to-morrow in Westminster Abbey , he would therefore be a loyal subject . Were Peter Porcupine to cut the Regent ' s throat and instal himself in St . James ' s , he would be dutiful and obedient .
" And if in Downing- Street Old Nick , should revel England ' s prime minister , then bless the Devil !"
However favourable such a maxim may be to the peaceable lives of its admirers , doubts will arise in the minds of some about its tendency to produce all godliness and honesty .
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It is wholly out of my power to ascertain the object of the Old Unitarian ' s letter , or to account for the irritation and suspicion which pervade it ; but I am satisfied that , as to what is most important in it , his assertions may be denied and his inferences disproved , W . J . FOX .
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Letter addressed to the Rev . T . W . Kiddermiiutery May 12 , 1817 . Sir , Last evening I attended the service at the Old Meeting , under an expectation of hearing Mr . B , witli whom I have been long acquainted .
in which I was disappointed : and * feeling aggrieved by a part of your discourse , I scarcely know how to refrain from expressing to ydu my dissatisfaction . I do not complain of
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Mr . Editor , May 19 , 1817 . IF the following letter , written on occasion of personally witnessing one of those specimens of bigoted harshness- against Anti-Trinitarians , not unfrequent in the present day among some religious sects , shall appear suitable to the design of your useful publication , perhaps its
insertion will not be displeasing to some of your readers , at least to such of them as have had their ears assailed with the like demonstrations of determined hostility . It may be proper to observe that no answer to it has been received , though a week has
elapsed since it was sent . Whether this omission is to be ascribed to an idea in the mind of the minister to whom the letter was addressed , that the remonstrance of an Unitarian on such a subject was not worthy of a reply 3 or to his feeling that the reprehended though common outrage against charity and decorum could
not be justified , and that therefore he could not answer me without making some apology , which would be too grating to his orthodoxy , I cannot determine . But having been informed that some remarks on my observations are to appear in one of the magazines devoted to the interests of Calvinistic tenets , 1 am induced to solicit the insertion of my letter in the Monthly Repository . R . l \
Letter From Mr. Fry To A Calvinistic Minister, On His Want Of Charity.
Letter from Mr . Fry to a Calvinistic Minister , on his want of Charity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/19/
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