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most of his contemporaries ; but not tl * erefoi * e a Socinian , any more than a son of the English Church , whilst esteemed a j &uaker , because I justify many of her ' principles , * since the Reformation , against the Roman Church . " Vol . L p . 268 . In the Tract from which the 13 th
extract tetaken , Penn gives the following explanation of the sense in which the early Quakers understood , Rom . ix . 5 , and confessed Christ to be " God over all . " He there says , " We
acknowledge Christ in his double appearance , as in the flesh , of the seed of Abraham , so in the spirit , as he is God over all , blessed for ever . Wherein , " adds he , " is a full confession both to
him as a-blessed Person , and as a divine principle of light and life in the sou ]; the want of which necessary and evident distinction ^ occasions our adversaries frequent mistakes about our belief and application of the Scriptures of truth , concerning Christ in that
twofold capacity . " PennV ideas of Christ personally considered / as expressed in the same page were , that he was " properly and truly the son of man on earth , and is now as truly trie son of man in glory , " not God over all ,
but the first born from the dead , " as the head of our manhood , which shall also be glorified , if we receive him into our hearts , as the true light that leads in the way of life eternal , and continue in well-doing to the end . " Works . Vol . IT . p . 785 .
And in another work of Penn ' s , intitled " The Christian Quaker , and his divine testimony stated and vindicated , from Scripture , reason and authority , "—Works . Vol . I . p . 541 > he
says , " There are not two lights , lifes 9 natures or spirits in God . He is one forever in himself , and his light one in kind , however variously he may have declared himself or manifested
it , at sundry times of the world . His truth is one , his way one , and his rest one for ever . " I intended to have briefly noticed the context of the extracts from Barclay , Claridge , Sewel , and those from the Yearly Meeting
Epistles , but fearing I have already trespassed too far on the patience of your readers in generalon " a purely historical question , " of little interest to " them , I will now conclude with Penny exhortation in the Preface to tlnVwork , to the noble Bereans" of t « l . xii . 3 o
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the age in which he lived , to examine for themselves the truth of doctrines by the Scriptures , and by repeating his earnest wishes for their success . € < Degenerate not , " says he , " from
the example of your progenitors . If you do , you are no longer true JBereans , and to such , we inscribe this work . If you do not , we may assure ourselves of a fair inquiry and an equal judgment .
" The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ augment your desire after truth , giveyou clearer discerning ofthe truth , and enable you more readily to receive , and with greater resolution to maintain the truth . " Uniting cordially in these good wishes for all your readers , 1 am , &c . T . F .
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Letter to'llev . J . Rowefi'&mDr . Stock * 481
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Letter to Rev . J- Howe , of Bristol , from Dr . Stock , upon the latter embracing Trinitarianism . [ The following letter is no longer private : two different copies have
been sent to us , one in print : we insert it into the Monthly Repository , willing that the Trinitarians should have the benefit of the utmost publicity that we are able to give it . JEd . ] Clifton ,
My Dear Sir , Nov . 6 , 1816 . SCARCELY know in what terms Ito begin this letter , or how to communicate to you the object of it , yet I am anxious to be the first to
convey to you the intelligence , because I am unwilling that it should reach you , unattended by those expressions * of personal regard and respect , by which I could wish that it should be
accompanied . It will surprise you to be told , that it is become with me , a matter of absolute duty to withdraw myself from henceforth , from the Lewin ' s Mead Society .
Yes , my dear Sir , such is the fact . In the month of July last , my professional attendance was required for the Rev . John Vernon , the Baptist minister of Downend , who was then on a visit to a friend in Bristol . I found
him very ill , so much so , that his other medical attendant and myself , had judged it necessary that he should suspend all his public labours . After attending him here * two or three days , he removed to Downend , ' where I have since continued to see him abbut once a week- He felt it a duty to endea-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 481, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/33/
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