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    Sir , Clapton , Sept . % IS 18 . THE appeal from the congregatidn at Alnwick , [ p . 5 S 0 , ] will , I hope , be very successful ; and , indeed , it is impossible not to feel perfect confidence in that name , so well known

    among us , by which it conies recommended . One paragraph , however , in Mr . Probert ' s letter , I confess I was sorry to read , and I cannot help thinking that it escaped ' him inadvertently . I mean the passage in which he thus appears to deny that Arians

    are Unitarians : 4 C When we separated , * ' says he , there were several Universalists and Arians amongst us , but not one Unitarian . " I know how much we want a term to distinguish those Christians who believe that Christ had no nature but

    the human , though highly exalted above the rest of our race , by the perfection of his moral character and of his divine endowments . I know , too , what great modern authorities there are for the contrast between Arians

    and Unitarians . Yet though I have long ceased to believe the pre-existence of Christ and other notions , which have been supposed to form the distinction of Arian , I have not forgotten the effect of the opinions I once entertained . From my own recollections I am convinced , that

    whatever an Arian may believe respecting the Son and the Spirit of God , and however , as I bow think , his views may be unscriptural ; yet he will as firmly and consistently believe the exclusive deity of the God and Father of oar Lord Jesus Christ , as any other Unitarian .

    There is , I think , no part of Dr . Priestley ' s writings , in which his arguments appear less satisfactory than those in which he refuses to the Arian the worthy name , by which he himself was called , which he so ably advocated and so well recommended *

    I was glad , on the other hand , to find one of his ministerial successors , Mr . Yates , in his able Vindication , making a common cause , as Unitarians , with ail , however otherwise distinguished , who assert the authority of Scripture

    for the worship of •* one God the Father of all , wKo is above all , " in opposition to that paradox of the schools , Trinity in Unity ; in which Watts , till better instructed , could even discover an infant Deity , J . T . BUTT-

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    Instances of Sanguinary Superstition . [ Communicated by Mrs . Mary Hnghes / J Hanwood , Sir , September 12 , 1818 . IN a St . James ' s Chronicle , which was published in July last , I met with an article which you will

    perhaps deem worthy of insertion in the Repository , as it tends , I think , in a high degree , not only to prove a considerable advance in the human mind , since the period alluded to , 172 . 8 , but to make us thankful that our lot has

    fallen in more humane and enlightened times . When I have hitherto occasionally offered a paper for insertion in one of your periodical works , it has been signed only with the initials of my name ; and even after reading in the last May Repository , [ p . S& 8 J Mr . Luckcock ' s communication on the

    subject of anonymous publications , although I thought his reasoilings , j . ust , yet from a feeling , perhaps natural in one of my sex and recluse situation and habits , in an -article which has since been favoured by admission , I have still done the same . This has

    been since noticed with disapprobation , in a letter which I have received from a friend , for whose judgment-1 feel much deference . He refers me to Mr , Luckcock ' s arguments , and asks me , why , if I approve of them , I do not act accordingly .

    The matter , with respect to mysel f is , I am sensible , of very small importance to the public $ but in regard to many other of your incognito Corre f spondents , I seriously think that it

    may not be so . The sanction of a respectable name gives weight to whatever it is appended ; and even a slight knowledge of the writer : produces an increased degree of interest in the mind of the reader *

    It has always been a favourite principle with me , ( however in this instance' I may have departed from it , ] that in small as well as in . great things , we are in duty bound to follow' our convictions j and yielding- up my feelings to the strength of Mr . Luckcock ' s arguments , I beg to subscribe myself , Sir , your constant reader ,

    MARY HUGHES . P . S . Will you , Sir , allow me to take this ; opportunity of thanking your Correspondent B ., in the Repository for May , [ p . 305 , ] for the very fa-

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    Instances 6 f Sanguinary Superstition , < fi $ 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 615, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/15/