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_ SiR , Bath , XOthMay , 1817 . r I ^ IE mayor and town clerk of m Liverpool appear to be either totally ignorant of the gospel , or
disposed to persecute all its rational expositors . If they had had any acquaintance with its true doctrines , they must have known that Unitarianism is its uniform foundation from
beginning to the end j or they must have charged Jesus himself with blasphemy , on the same declaration , on which they have urged this accusation against Mr . Wright . For the X ^ ord Jesus , in his solemn address to the Father , calls him the only true God , and declares himself to be his
embassador . The apostle Peter also says , Jesus Christ was a man approved of God by many signs and wonders , which God wrought by him iu the midst of the Jews , and that God raised him from the dead , whereas God himself can never die : and the
apostle Paul declares , that though there be many who are called gods , yet Christians acknowledge only one God , the Fe ather . Besides , persecutors always bring false charges against those who are obnoxious to their
displeasure . There were many false witnesses employed against the JLord Jesus himself . Heathen and Popish persecutors have always ignominiously aspersed the victims of their malice . The persecutors of Mr . Wright have
followed their example . We should , therefore , in all cases distinguish falsehood from truth ; and , as Christians , we should judge no man , lest we bring judgment on ourselves , but leave every one to follow the faith which was once delivered to the saints , according to
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the dictates of his own mind . Otherwise , we shall become the degraded followers of the present Pope Pius , who is so great an enemy to the reading of the Scriptures , unless we first adopt his explanation of them—which may be , for aught we know , that we must believe what we cannot
understand , or what we understand to be impossible , else we must perish everlastingly . Alas , when shall men become wise and good , treating one another as they would be treated themselves ? When shall we all come
to receive the truth as it is in Jesus ? How happy a world should we then behold , seeing heaven to begin on earth I There would then be no more wars and fightings , no calumny ,
no hypocrisy , nothing but love to God and good-will to men , all striving together to become pure and holy , and to do all the good in our power to all our fellow-creatures . W . H .
P . S . In your last Number , [ p . 224 , ] you inserted Moot instead of JBootk % Boston , —mi ^^^ m . — . ^—
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41 O The Case of Mr . J . Wright at Liverpool .
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pecuniary object in this arbitrary obligation , she will soon abandon the obligation itself . I would urge the immediate adoption of my plan , if approved . I , myself , have no personal interest or object in the arrangement re com mended . I
am already happily united in J . F . ' s ** paradisaical bliss , * and 1 pray Divine Providence to continue my present connexion , until the time shall arrive when I shall with pious resignation , have my views more nearly fixed upon that future world , where there will be neither marrying nor giving in marriage . MARITUS .
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Sir , June 1 st , 1817-t I THE subject of registration of . M .. places for Dissenting worship , is one that interests most materially every class and denomination of Protestant Dissenters ; and each class will find subject of alarm , in the detail of the investigation of the case of Mr . John Wright , before the Quarter Sessions , at Liverpool . The point
more particularly requiring the serious consideration of the larger body of Dissenters , is that which was very strenuously maintained by the supporters of the information , respecting such places as are registered " being set apart" for religious worship . The cause of Dissent has owed so much in
its rise and progress , in most parts of the kingdom , to the exercise of religious worship in a room or in apartments of a dwelling-house ; and this plan is now so much more generally in practice among those who preach
in villages , or visit them for the purpose of assisting in religious worship in places where no particular building is devoted to that purpose , that it becomes a matter for serious consideration . whether legal objections can be maintained successfully against
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/34/
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