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riority ; they reckon their sprinkled or unsprinkled brethren quite as good Christians as themselves ; and knowing my high respect for the talents , piety and learning of many members of the Baptist denomination , and my readiness to do full justice to the services
which that party has rendered to the cause of truth and freedom , they have none of that irritable eyoisrne which discovers hostility where none was felt , and resents the honest notice of a defect as an injurious attack , prompted by spleen , and characterized by falsehood .
4 . I greatly respect the Baptist who believes that , by submitting to immersion , he is ** yielding obedience to the positive command of Jesus Christ . " Equal honour is also due to the conscientious Paedobaptist , Anti baptist , or Probaptist . But it is to be
deprecated that any of these appellations , relating as they do to a subject of comparatively small importance , should be made badges of party , pleas for exclusion , or instruments of little ,
vexatious domination . It is against this intolerance that I protest ; while , as to the controversies themselves , I am a mere looker-on . My wish is , to unite heartily and zealously with every friend to " the use of reason in matters
of religion , " ( whatever be his opinion or practice as to the use of water in matters of religion , ) in endeavouring * to lead mankind to the knowledge of Christian truth , and the enjoyment of Christian liberty .
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this subject , and afford opportunity for the proposal and discussion of plans : and , at their request , 1 beg leave to recommend that the gentlemen of the Unitarian Fund in London be , for the
present , considered as a central committee for the Fellowship Funds . They desire me also to announce , as ah example to others , that they have resolved to transmit a small annual subscription to the Unitarian Fund . R . AWBREY ,
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Postscript to A Constant Reader ' s Letter , p . 687 . ( Which came too late for insertion in its proper place . ) Sir ,
SINC E writing the above , I have seen Mr . Howe ' s letter [ p . 625 ] , to whom 1 beg respectfully to suggest two things which 1 hope will be deemed conclusive : I . That the opposing party amongst the Independents have no connexion or influence with the
Society , precisely because they would not agree to the comprehension of Unitarians , which I consider to be one of its rules as actually carried into effect . And , secondly , That a provision is made for the permanent operation of the same liberal principle in the future management of the society ,
by a law which declares that the Committee of Management shall always consist of an equal number of persons , part ministers and part laymen , belonging to each denomination . I need not say , that of the Presbyterian denomination , the Unitarians , peculiarly so called , constitute by far the larger portion .
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Sir , Swansea , Nov . 16 , 1818 . rilHE scheme of Fellowship Funds , JL the happy suggestion of your late greatly lamented Correspondent , Dr . Thomson , being now adopted in so many places , and I hope likely to
spread through the whole Unitarian body , it becomes the more desirable that some method should be adopted to unite and concentrate their strength . Much good , without doubr , mny he clone by the various associations of this kind separately 9 but is it not
probable that much more may be done by a general union and co-operation > Strongly persuaded of this , and zealous for the cause , the members of the Swansea Fellowship Fund are exceedingly desirous that the pages of the Repository should keep up the attention of the Unitarian public to
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m >* Royal Funeral Sermons * T fl " 1 H E following advertisement , JL which appeared in " TheTimes "
of the 20 th of November , will perhaps furnish a clue for discovery to what quarter many of the loyal effusions , with which the public has been favoured from the press and the pulpit , owe their origin .
Ad Oleros—Ecclesiastac , quibus noil satis [ est ] otii ad lempestivas conciones coinponendas , in memoriam defuncts Regince Charlottes habendas , e ^ emplaria varia aiit MS . non ante pro ] a la , ad rem rite luctitosam idonea , conseqtfi possint . Adeuridum est ad
——The reference , which is to a bookselling-house of the first respectability , we are of course not able to give .
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Fellowship Funds . — 'Royal Funeral Sermons . 70 &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/39/
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