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motives have not been fairly represented . F . K . says , my remedy is worse than no remedy at all . If he will refer to the date of my communication , he will perceive that it was written before the Kent and Sussex Petition
had niade its appearance . I was wholly ignorant that either that or any other petition was in contemplation ; otherwise I should not have proposed my plan , until the other bad been tried . I rejoice to find that the subject is likely to undergo discussion ; which , I doubt not , will tend to mature
the most efficacious plans for our relief . I should have been pleased to have seen the Kent and Sussex Petition followed up by others ; and I do yet hope that the table of the House of Commons will in the present session , be covered with petitions from the
great body of Unitarians in the United Kingdom . Though we should not succeed in the first attempt , let us , session after session , repeat the application * The reasonableness , the justice of our demand , must ultimately prevail .
The remedy which I proposed was only in aid ; and I am decidedly of opinion it would naturally aid the object in view , F . K . charges my plan with " hostility to the Established Church / ' If by this expression be meant , hostility to the Established Church on the
ground of its being an establishment , I plead guilty to the charge , and I glory in my hostility . I trust the grounds upon which I have adopted my dissent from the Establishment of this country , would lead me to dissent
from the establishment of any religion in any country . The principle is radically bad , so destructive of the best interests of Christianity , that I should be equally hostile to the establishment of Unitarian ism , an to that of
Arminianism , of Calvinism , or of Popery . I envy not the feelings of that Dissenter who can feel either ashamed or afraid to declare his hostility to an established religion . Our Lord and Master had no such pusil lanimous fears : his k
ingdom is not of this world . In his exhortations and reproofs , he framed his language in the manner most likely to be effectual * having an eye to duty , and to please and " obey hfe Gbd rather than men . "
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If F * K . conceive that my object aims solely at the pecuniary advantage to be obtained by Unitarian ministers , in direct hostility to , and to the injury of , the Established Clergy , he much mistakes toy meaning . My anxiety to have the Marriage Ceremony a civil contract , might have guarded him from such a mistake . I have
expressed my fears that ^ such an important and desirable change is not likely soon to be effected - I , and flatter myself there is nothing in the plan proposed , which can iadicate a
deficiency of - " meekness , gentleness , universal peace and love . " Happy shall I be , if our petitions , breathing the spirit of love which marked the character of Jesus , at the same time in a
firm and manly tone expressing our rational aud cogent reasons for wishing to be delivered from an obligation at whieh our consciences revolt , be attended with success . lf > however , such request be denied , I really cannot , with all the candour which it is
possible to summon to my aid , refrain from recommending an abstraction of the temporal advantages accruing to the Established Clergy , from a false delicacy , lest such a proceeding may wear an aspect of hostility . Whilst my own conscience acquits me of any but the
purest intention , and whilst I am of opinion that its adoption will facilitate , and its non-adoption will retard the object of every rational Unitarian , and of every consistent Dissenter , I must urge the performance of the
service amongst ourselves , as a duty we owe to God ; and recommend its repetition by an Established Clergyman , as a compliance with the laws of our country , until such relief is granted as we are seeking , MARITUS .
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The Prevalence of Unitarianism in Scotland * 32 $ ,
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Plymouth , « \ Sir , February 1 , 1818 . PERHAPS the following observations and statement of facts , may tend to throw some light upon the
subject of inquiry of your Correspondent in a recent Repository , [ XIL 732 ] . Myles , in his account of the Methodists , assigns the prevalence of Ariani&m and Sociniauism in the uorth
of our island , as a reason iVhy thin sect did Hot succeed in forming their churches there . . • , " , It to well known , that sis a Body of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/35/
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