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Saviour have been ma * of rta ^ Esct : yet , as long as t&eir creeds / xioirffessions , articles and cahoiisr ffctmidn fan force , they mil toad-must- ' bfcy % separate eommrinfctf from theJ small but increasing b&Bf wftfcft fwte&fcips the Father itf spirit afltf itt triitfr .
That tfe fidth In the * unhallowed name is greatly sftakett , is evidetftr from a variety of di ^ ttostaiflees . Let any one ga mto the places of wOtf&Mp of the sect established b £ latvy on the days on which the Athanasian Creed is
appointed to be' read ; and he c&rmot fail of seeing a Striking proof wjmt little credit it , comparatively speaking , retains in : this country . An anecdote , recorded of our late revered sovereign , will not be without its tts& When the
clergyman had read the firfct verse of this Greed , be waited as usual for the response of the king , but h& fafts silent ; and , when the verse was repeated , the same silence was preserved ; but on the minister '' s teavinfif tins cteed for the ministers leaving tm& cteed for 1
that called the Apostles * ' Creed , the king united with him int his u £ ual audible manner , and thus gave a marked testimony of hi& disapprobation of the Athtmasian Creed , or which no small
body of his subjects entertains similar sentiments to those of his Majesty . Let us not despise these smalt beginnings , nor throw obstacles in the way of those who are doming over to a better faith .
The Aliens , indeed , Would not be excluded ; for they believe the Father to be the oiily true God , and they also beRete in the ditine mission of our Saviour . If they entertain certain opinions with respect to Christ , antecedent to the declaration from heaven ,
that he was the beloved Sbn of God , yet still they c&nnot , and I believe in general they do not maintain , that the beEtef of tnieir opinions is essential to etefMal life . I never was an Arian ,
no * ain 1 in tha teast inclined to em-Brace their opinions ; yet , if the Afians would ttftfte with us , I cartittot but thmk tbiartf ^ &re acting a most 'imprudent l p&M ; in seehldSttg th&ih from cur sobfetv . At ttte srimfetiftte I must .
^ fpr my 6 Wft part , bb a llttfe farther ; ttftj do itof know , " wheth ^ I tfhohld 4 &t ^ te fet an Arian to o ^ ae of Mr . Belsh ^ m ' s avowed sentiinente . Sut I am in danger of trespassing tod tar on your tfalttabte pages , aLhd
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will , therefore , clo ^ e for the present , reserving what I have farther to add on tins important topic t 6 toother opportunity . W . FRENIX
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90 Mr . Frfllagar on Plan of Southern Unitarmn Society .
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Chicheater , Sir , January 4 , 1820 . WHEN I read Mr . Befeham's remarks [ XIV . 657—660 ] on the proposed alteration in the Preamble to the Rtfies of the Western Unitarian Society , I did not ; expect any notice would be taken of them ; but as Dr .
Carpenter has stated [ XIV . 744—750 j the reasons which induced him to propose the altefefion which was submitted to tie meeting" , I may be allotted , perhaps , to express my regret that it was not adopted .
I hope it will not b& deemed presumptuous in me to differ from Mr . Belshftm , for , whom I have most sincere respect ; but I must confess , I am as perfectly convmced that the preface to the London Society ' s Rules i& unwise , as he is that it is proper . If individuals chose to form
a society for the inculcation of the proper humanity of Jesus Christ , they had a fall right so to do ; btrt I think they had IK ) right fo caU tMs an Unitarian Society ; theifcby implying that the belief that Jesus was simply a man is necessariiy connected with Unittorianisin .
I cannot think that the question whether thfe term does or does not apply to Ari&tis , is a mere logomachy , I have always considered it important to vindicate their right to it ; and I was strenuous , therefore , when the Southern Unitarian Society Was formed , which was the third society , that it should not be narrowed as the London
and Western Societies were . Several were thereby enabled to join outf Sodfety , ivho could not have done it had , wte adbpted the iHmdbnjprefecfc . Nay , unless I had imitated Btf . Price , and foltfetf them , as he did the London
Society , whether they wished f&t me or not , I could ttot lkve > ' at * ffiBM ; time , been a nteiftber , s # j !^ fcihg they Bad adhered to the abc ^ ve PSrektabfe . Perh&pr * hty < 3 h ^ tf ^ fVoWi Bow Arianism to what som ^ call pttiper UiiitaJrianism , m&f bfe attributed to my haVing been a rieiMter of this Society ^» d tf fi 0 > the &toe thiiig may to ^ happened to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/26/
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