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JBrief Hist&rp of the Dissenters from live Revolution.
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The two principal and most numerous divisions are , 1 . tiuit , which I shall designate as rigid , calling themselves Mennonists . They have numerous congregations in the north part of Holland , Friesland , Groningen , and a seminary of learning at Amsterdam , for the education of students for the
ministry . Their first Professor was Jac . tlysdych , his successor Petr . Sehmid , as late as 1788 . They are generally rigid Calvinists , and in harmony with the most zealous Orthodox in the Reformed Churches . Tiae name
of their principal meeting-house is designated by the name oi the Stm 9 borrowed probably from a buiiding in the vicinity . 2 . The other seetioa , which I shall call liberal * in opposition to them , are known generally as Baptists , approving the tenets , defended
generally by the congregations of De Tarea , ( turristj an edifice in its neighbourhood , and het lam ( lambj , a name of a brewery next to it . They have wo creeds * no formularies whatever , and are numerous ia the principal cities of Sud-Holland , Friesland , Utrecht .
Their members are chiefly Unitarians , as well as their ministers , though many have adopted the Ariao hypothesis - many the system of Dr . Sw Clarke ; and often m the same eengvegfttions opposite tenets are defended , with a Christian spirit , without a shadow of
rancour . Many eminently learned man have appeared among them : Jo * Hinstra y A liard ffidska ^ i , Nic de Vries ; and before them Galenns Ahrc&ams . * Their seminary at Amsterdam flourished under the care of JTierk
NieuwenhujfSy siaee 1 73 ^> , Heere Ootterbamii aad Hesselmk , and was endowed with a splendid apparatus for Experiment * Philosophy , in which their Professor every week gave lectures to his students , as well as in Theology , who , besictes this , were benefited by the lectures
* " 1677 , 8 tti Month , Amsterdam . —We had a meeting-with Galenns Abrahams *( t he great fA tiler of the Socinian Menniste in fftese parts , ) accompanied with several preachers and others of his cougreg-ation :
clivers of our friends were also present . Ft continued about five hours . He affirmed , hi opposition to ~ us , that * there was no Christian church , ministry or commission apostolical , now in the world . * But the tord assisted us with his wisdom and strength to confound his attempts . " Ww . Penn ' s Travails , 12 mo , 1094 , p . Z £ 3 .
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of the Professors of the Athenaeu ** , and the seminary of the Remonstrants . They had , in the latter part of the 18 th century , five minister * at Amsterdam , four at Haerlem , two at . Leyden , three at Rotterdam , and one at Dordrecht :
a correspondence between them , and many are men of first rate abilities in Amsterdam , and some of their Unitarian brethren in London , would be mutually beneficial , and by this means a complete historv of the state of
Unitariaiii ^ m m I hat country might be easily obtainable : would to G . od , that these few rough and incorrect lineaments ^ might bring about such a desiga . I , in my humble station , should then deem myself to have , in this respect , deserved well of a goad causa . F . A . V . K .
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454 Brief IlisUtij of the Dissenters from thg Revolution .
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[ Concluded fvoth p . & 87 . ] IN 1745 , a very fotnenidabie rebeHion was raised in favour of the Pretender , and the Dissenters again distinguished themselves by their exertions in aid © f the government , Ontfeis , asona former occasion , an aot was passed to
exempt them from the penalties of th « Test Ai ? t , which they had incurred by assisting" the government in euppressi » g the rebellion , bat their exertions in suppressing both this and the former rebefliiiH ) , ha-ve not had the e&eet of inducmg the government to repeal
th « t kHq « i * ous law , whieh still rein aims a disgrace to the statute-book of this country .. These were the only public events relating to the Dissenters in the reign of G « orge II . In their more private history also , there "was
little during this reign to excite much attention . The jaainds of that part w ^ ho' went fey the name of Presfoyterian « were indeed preparing for the great oha « ges whi <^ h have taken place during the present reigTH but it was in a silent and unobserved manner .
Arfan © pinions spread to- a great extent among them , and some few of their ministers-began * to embrace , what are now generally called Unitarian sentiments , t ) ie belief in the sunpte
humanity of Chfiet , but these as yet scarcely any where openly avowed tfi ^ eir opinions . A « eiong the Ariail ministers Of tht * period , Dr . Sani « el ChBmdier an ^ 3 M ^ . Bourne , of ; Birmtngham , are paititufarty de ^ crdrrg
Jbrief Hist&Rp Of The Dissenters From Live Revolution.
JBrief Hist&rp of the Dissenters from live Revolution .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/6/
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