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This was scarcely to have been expected in a paper , the argument of n # hich is grounded upon mere inference . But , waving this , may it not be asked , whether , if the Scriptures had been designed to teach the final cessation of existence to the wicked , the sirred writers could have used
more plain , express aud positive language than they perpetually adopt ? They say that the winked shall not enter into life , that they shall die and perish , that they shall inherit
corruption , and that they sh : dl be visited with everlasting destruction : now if , according to Mr . Madge , " the language of Scripture is employed for better purposes than to deceive or mislead , " how in the face of these
expressions can it be maintained , on mere inferential ground , that the wicked shall enter into life , that they shall nev ; er see death , or fall into perdition , that they shall be raised incorruptible , and that , instead of destruction , they shall suffer only temporary and remedial punishment ?
Such are my difficulties as one wishing ( for I confess the fact ) to believe in the final happiness of all men : should Mr . Madge assist me to surmount them , he shall in due time know whose mind he has thus
kindly relieved . At present , I sub Scribe onl y * CANTABR 1 GIENSIS .
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used by the old Presbyterians , and retaining the appellation , justly and equitably entitle them to the funds in question , is a question for the court of equity or conscience to decide : and upon which 1 should , ! confess , decide
against them . These remarks I offer , not so much with a view of embroiling myself in this discussion * which may , perhaps , well remain in the hands of your Liverpool Correspondent and Mr # Johns , as for the sake of publishing
the following circumstance : Lately travelling through Bmham , a village in Norfolk , my attention was arrested by a cottage , against which was a large board , having painted on it , in conspicuous characters , the following
inscription , A School for Scriptural Christians" After which were quoted several texts from the New Testament . The tenor of these quotations led me to inquire what denomination of Christians the school belonged to : and I understood from a man who was
sitting by , that it was founded by a M Clarke , who lived in Middlesex , who had several similar schools in the neighbouring parishes . What was the denomination to which the school
belonged , was a question which seemed at first to puzzle the humble informant , but after a short pause , he said he believed they were called Presbyterian Unitarians .
I was greatly pleased to find such an institution , where I little expected it ; and conceive we are much in * debted to the enlightened patron for his exertions . But my principal reason for mentioning the circumstance , is , to suggest to our Presbyterian friends , whether it would not be well
for them to call themselves Unitarian Presbyterians ^ which , 1 presume , is the appellation adopted by the gentleman who formed the above schooh The principal objection to their doing this , would , perhaps , arise from their considering the term Unitarian as indefinite , or not sufficiently
explanatory , I foresee this difficulty , because your Correspondents differ on this point . The u Presbvterian'V says , among his aect are *• many attached to the Avion 3 cheme , to whom the term Unitarian does not apply ; ' while Mri Davis asks , " 4 * are not Arians , anel even Trinitarians , as we cull them , os justly entitled to the name of Unit * -
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Chiche&ter , Sir ; September 12 , 1818 . WAS not aware that the " Man-I chester Presbyterians * ' had been charged with duplicity in retaining
that appellation : but I confess , I think the reason for their so doing " , adduced by your Correspondent , signing himself a " Presbyterian , " [ p . 504 , ] and by Mr . Davis , [ p . 505 , ] savours of duplicity , though I am quite ready to believe that it does not strike them in
the same light . r lh $ principal reason for their adhering to this appellation , is , t ^ at were they to change it , they woi ^ ld possibly lose the benefit of some funds originally devoted to the Presbyterian interest : at the same
t \ mq it is acknowledgers that the peculiarity of i hurch government , from which tfee title was derived , baa fallen H > to genera ) , if net into total disuae ^ o » f the ? ro < Hovr for then , Uueir * & ® rely occupying the eats , formerly
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 619, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/19/
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