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with more safety than lie could foe the advocate of other theological opinions openly : on this point the € ry of heresy would not be raised against him .
And , that be was not better known as a believer in the proper unity of God , was owing * perhaps , to some dread of such a charge . Perhaps some of your readers may discover in bis work * the distinct traces which
have led Dr . C . to regard him as the abettor of a leading doctrine now generally fallen into disrepute . Dr . Chalmers cannot be eo totally unacquainted with the world in "which
he is living , as to believe that Unitarianism is now dwindling away- He ha * seen a proof of the contrary in the very city in which he resides ; and in other towns of the northern kingdom are manifestations of the falsehood of
the position ; and whatever opinion we may entertain of the solidity of the Doctor ' s apprehension , that other worlds and other systems may be interested in the awful catastrophe of
the sacrifice of a God upon the little hill of Calvary , by that pitiful , that despicable race of bipeds , called Jews , we really believe jDr . Chalmers knows better than 1 o insinuate " that
Unirianism has nearly dwindled away from public observation . " I am , Sir , proud of the honourable rank in which Unitarian professors now stand , and confident of the greater honour that yet awaits the Unitarian profession , yours in sincere congratulation , I . W .
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these great Doa& in Divinity might object to , as too determinedly heterodox , It is not long ago that a " venerable" of this sacred order had very nearly proceeded to excommunicate , in form , a right and very loyal
and Church-going member of the fraternity , for having in his window a little book , good-humouredly enough surely , entitled , * 'The Common Prayer B 6 ok of the Sect of the Thirty-nine Articles ( still whimsically enough styling itself the Church of England ) 1
made Scriptural , ' fee . ; and ft friend of mine , only the other day , upon proposing , for sale under his roof , to another , a page or two , as inoffensively too , entitled , " Addenda to Gastrel ' s Christian Institutes , or a
Sequel to ' Bible Precepts / for * the edification of * Bible only Schools , " was at once replied to , that he did not dare to sell the sheet in question , because be published for the Bishop of——— . For brevity's sake I make no comment .
A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD . P . S . May I avail myself of the opportunity to remark , that in compliance with the request in your present Number , I have added the name of a friend to your list of subscribers .
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¦^ M ^^ tf ^^ H ^^ tfb * * Gainsborough , Sib , itfkey g , 1 S ! 8 . YOUR volumes will hereafter be looked into as a record of feets and events , out of which the historian and biographer of Unitarian Dissenters
may extract the most important materials . Id this view , f think a short sketch of the history of the buildings and congregations connected with us in various parts of the country , is a desideratum . I communicate the
following account of the " old- Presbyterian , or Independent meeting-house " at Gainsborough , with a hope , if it be acceptable , that short communications of a like nature from'other places may hje excited .
The present meeting-house , situated in Batten Haw , ( in modern times , Beaumont Street , ) has been erected more than 100 years . It has little appearance of a place erf worship
extcrnaWy , but it i « tveotiy fitted up wiijbin , and will 45 a * rt * m upwards of 20 O pettmis * W ^ 5 hwc no acc urate account ofite origin ; but Mr . Ambrose
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Slit , Jan . 12 , 1818 . AMONGST the desiderate 0 * 1 the part of free inquiry , may I be
permitted , through the medium of your widely ^ circulat ed little volume , to report one , in my opinion , of no ii&fc consequence , viz . a bookseller of liberal and fearless principle at the West end of the town . I should be
happy to be contradicted by any of that respectable profession residing in that particular quarter : but ait present I moat reluctantly , but as confidently Resume myself authorized , from some experience , to say , that the fear of Reverends and Very Reverends aud Bight Reverends , before their eyes , forbids one and all of them from even suffering to be advertised as only mid at their shops , a » y publication which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/24/
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