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such a school to exist . My feelings are , I own , somewhat damped by Mr . Clarke ' s letter ; for I find that it is not an Unitarian School : and though a Scriptural School is very good , for which reason I have warmly supported the Lancasterian Schools , still I think an Unitarian School much better . It
sounds very pretty to talk of " Scriptural Language , " " Scriptural Schools , " and of sending people to the " Logos " for instruction ; but does not Mr . Clarke know that all Christians go to the Logos ? If he means to say that
this is quite sufficient , and that it is a matter of perfect indifference whether they come away Trinitarians or Unitarians , according as they affix different ideas to the instruction of the " Logos , " I confess he and I have
very different opinions of the importance of truth , or of the means by which we are to speed its progress . My love for religious liberty would prohibit me from violating or incommoding those who think differently from myself ; all such ought to have free liberty to enjoy and to publish their opinions ; but still I do feel a wish to have Unitarian proteges and Unitarian eleves ; I wish to form
Unitarians in the week by instruction , to confirm them in the faith on Sundays , and not to be careless whether Satan , creeping in among the sons of God , may put an antichristian interpretation on the words of the Logos . I think with Mr . Wardlaw , that Unitarianism and Trinitarianism are two essentially different religions ^ though
the supporters of each system build it upon the words of the Logos . 1 therefore consider Mr . Clarke ' plan
for an universal church as more Utopian than any of the speculations of the celebrated More , from which we derive the term . Nay , I observe that your Correspondent Eubulus [ p . 697 ] and I differ as to the meaning of the words of the Logos , "Judge not , lest ye be judged . "
I consider this passage directed against the formation of uncharitable judgment , but not against calling things by their right names . Nevertheless , whether to " sit in Moses * seat , " for the rewards attached to it , without doing the works or observing the rules of Moses , be conduct to which the term duplicity should be applied , is a ques ^
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tion whose decision I should not leav e to the " Commentary of Blackstone , " or to the " representation" or misrepresentation of our lawyers , but to the uniform phraseology of the Logos ; who , I suspect , would both in his teaching and example be decidedly in my favour .
To return to Mr . Clarke ' s " Scriptural Christians . " It may be right , in justice to myself , to prevent mistakes , for me to say , that notwithstanding what I have written above , I should have no fear of trusting any to the Scriptures alone for the
obtaining of Unitarian principles . But Mr . C . ' s liberality goes further ; for he permits the children to have peculiar expositions of the Scriptures on the Sunday , from persons who are not Unitarians . This , with my views of divine truth , I could not allow myself to do . It ceases , however , to be sur *
prising , that his school remains unmolested ; for the most evangelical can hardly wish for any institution better suited to their purpose than is this establishment . Nothing I have said will , I trust , be considered as disrespectful to Mr .
C , who is , I rejoice to find , free from Athanasian trammels ; but my regard for " Unitarian proteges , " whom he rather sarcastically alludes to , has induced rne to say thus much . More might be said in their favour , but I will not trespass longer 011 your limits , except to subscribe myself ,
F . P . S . Eubulus has charged me with having gone out of my way in my visit to the " Scriptural Christians ; of course 1 should be cautious how ( I again transgress ; but I cannot help going again out of my way , while
writing to you on the subject of the above letter , to suggest , that I think the idea of your Correspondent , ( p . 703 , ) " that the Fellowship Funds should be placed at the disposal of a central committee , ' * would be very advantageous to the cause .
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T 50 Fellowship Fund at Gloucester .
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Sir , Gloucester , Nov . 25 , 1818-F 1 ROM the first moment that I heard of the institution of Fellowship Funds , and understood the design of them , 1 have been anx ictus to establish one in the society of Christians , over which I have the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/22/
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