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tacks which the toast alluded to . It was most strange that Dissenters should seek to put a yoke of bondage about the necks of their brethren , or that they should be found publicly supporting the avowed enemies of civil and religious liberty . Such , however , he lamented to say , was the case . Instances of the sort were too
numerous- In the recent election for the county of Norfolk , Mr . Butterworth , well known as a leading character among a certain , class of Dissenters , had written circulars to many individuals in order to influence their votes
in favour of the candidate , who boasted that his success was principally owing to the support he had received from the Clergy and the Administration . These letters had been eagerly caught at during the contest , printed and
circulated among the Dissenters with this title : " Copy of a Letter from Joseph Butterworth , Esq ., the member for Coventry , a great patron of charities and of the Dissenting interest . ' From some Dissenters he
received tbe answer which his letter deserved , but many 'were influenced by this " patron" of their cause , to desert their principles . He regretted to observe , among many of their ministers , a cringing and courtly servility ,, wholly unworthy the descendants of tbe Puritans . We had lived
to witness strange conduct among Dissenting ministers . One of them had signalized himself by reading the Church of England Liturgy in a chapel before two Royal Dukes . Between such men , and the venerable fathers of non-conformity , there seemed to be nothing in common but the mere name . Such conduct on the
part of their ministers had produced on their docks the effects which might naturally be expected . Many , whose ancestors had signalized themselves by their attachment to
non-conformity , were now seeking church or corporation honours , while others were only held to the Dissenting interest by a thread . He trusted , that the ministers of the Eastern district ,
and those more especially whom he then saw , would shew how deeply they felt the value of the principles of non-conformity , by a sedulous and earnest inculcation of them . 1 the course of the afternoon the e&ertiotiB of tbe Jiving as weti * ft tire
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Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association . The Annual Meeting of the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association was holden at Tenterden , on the 25 th June , when a discourse was delivered by Mr . Thomas Rees , F . S . A .
from Isaiah xl . 25 , to a numerous and very attentive auditory . In pointing out the principal objections to the cola * monly received doctrine of tbe Trinity , he shewed the utter inconsistency of the supposed derivative existence of the Son and the Holy Ohost from the
Father as the source , with that selfexistence which is essential to the one true God . He exhibited the absurdity of imagining that there can be in aiiy sense , three omnipresent persons to constitute the one Jehovah , and severally exercising infinite power through * - out the universe . He contrasted the
simplicity of the Unitarian system , with the glaring incongruities attending the idea of the union of the Deity with human nature , so intimately as to constitute one person , with a
creature who was subjected to the imbecilities of infancy and childhood , and the general infirmities attendant on our mortal frame , more especiaUy with the notion that the immortal
God could become mortal , and partake in the expiring * agonies of the man Jesus . The devotions were eomlcted bf Mr . L . Holden and Mr . A , Harris . 882 Tracts , calculated to explain and illustrate the principles of Unitarian
Christianity , or to vindicate its evidences and enforce its obligations * have been distributed by the Society in the last year . Among these are 4 Q copies of Mr . Fox ' s luminous sermon .
on the Comparative Tendency of Uf * t » tarianism and Calvinism , and 19 O of Mr . Wright ' s useful Essays On various points of Controversy ; particularly 44 of his Essay on the Universal Resto ration . As the ultimate destination of
that large portion of mankind , whose moral state on the great day of judgment , will disqualify them from enter *
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Intelligence . " — -Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association * 50 f
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memories of the departed champions of the Unitarian cause , were grate * fully remembered ; a spirit of Christian friendship , zeal and union ; pervaded all present , and it is hoped that the impressions derived from thtis meeting , will be lasting and beneficial .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 501, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/53/
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