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Portemduifi , Sin , &eb ® rury \ S , 1820 . ALtOW Has to state , / that at . the formation of the Southern tlnitarian Society * wx jMpearatipe vtfas adlotted , or even thoughtof , for this , among ether reasons , that the great majority of those who ? were ; expeet&d to become ra ^ mb € frsy wsare * Asians , © r .
Tauimin preached the first sermon , at the Gener ^ PBipl&t C * rfe ») Ctojptef m Portsmouth , " on lite Uinty or God and the character © f Jesus Christ /' This discourse was considered as too doctrinal and too much on the Humanitarian scheme * Some af its Vectian members became afermed ; and to
avoid the sfiandaL , as they then thought , of heloagiigl to a * SaciniaijA Society , " propos ©^ r &d carried tOsc ? resolution , u tk ^ f ^ caMh ^ < xuxseives TJfnztmians , we mssax ^ dt ^ im avow our belief of the simple Umty ofChd' ^ thus departing from the principle on > whiefe the Society was established ^ of : avoiding , the public avowal of any ? particular sentiment , beyond what was included m the term Unitarian . Mr . Belshana- ifi" I recollect
rightly , waff invited to : ; preack before the % i Southern Hfmtarum Society ;" he complied with the wish of the Society ; and was afferwauds informed of the nature of the Society ^ a Unitarianism . As a gentleman and a Ghmstian , Mr . Belsham would avoid giving intentional oflfence to t 3 b . e Society , after the intimation ; which had beenxjriven b& ^; to
and , therefore ^ L i ^ Gommendjed : its members , " me sftidy of the ; . Scrip * - tures / ' Some of them have ^ with ; ad ^ vantage an * credit to tJwunselVes , followed Ms ; advice , ; and ,, particularly ^ two ) of them ^^ to v ^ ere the moat active ^ procurinff the adoption ; o £ the above ^ solution ,. $ aid whb toe maw- zealous
preached of rfxe . humftpity : of Christ . Your GorDe ^ pondepoJb ^ Vectfc'V ob-^^ s , Cpv S ^ Jt ^ fMn ^ ^ KMni ^^ needing precfcKers ; like Mr . Bol&ham , ^ ptedi theiitvWsc ^ ta ^ ea t » the chaa ^ ter and - d ^ ig ^^ H ^ t l ^| jh ^'^ iSc » dra % 'l ^ : I By ^ tns jferoark fehoidj ^ to to jrablic cot-
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s « i « e ^ ^^^^ ] % ^/^ Ps W ## ^ Al ^^ S ^ fflfr % ^ el ^ Kate ^ japd 4 efe » ded . I .. / W ^ );? j ^ 'ft belonged to i »«^ a ^ water a » d Mnilk
Mr . Belsham's ob ^ ery ^ tic ^^ d ttot ^ pear to me t ^ % fyly 16 ^ ^ y sb ^ t ^ wMeh ^ tiiMt iH ^ t % sit > cktea e ^ iH ^^ . nitarian principles . The Southern Unitarian $ oci& $ cettaiinly did not associate on those pnnciples , for the reason already assigned . An 4 surely
if m $ ( number of gentlemen , wha are firtp believers in tpb © smwle : humslAitjr of Christ , choose to aasdciatey in © r ^ ier to ? pr 0 in ? algate that doctriiaev they hare a right so to do f but I ea « not think that those who do not befieve it , are free from blame Mft « to their feeosure
them for thus associating . Let them rather associate themselves in defence df ^ thelr own system . A Member < of the Southern Unitarian Society ,
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^ j |* e - 'SiniBfrM " ^ ^ iM& |^ iMfr : ^ m ^ SVe ^ dT ^ ^ ^ p ^ fttiiife ^^ W Christ- —an dSstfnlj ^ liOjii tvhlch Cfiristians > claiiHing the Appellation of orthodox , are , of emme ^ not y ^ fc prepared to admit .
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Liverpool , ^ Suj , January 31 * l ^ OL riPKE foilowiBg extract will , per-JL haps , be interesting to > many of your readers , who naajr wish' tfo peruse the testimony of eye-witnesses ta the progress of religious truth & 1 the quarter of tfe wotM to which it Vefers . It
is taken from the Christian , J > &ciple 9 a higRly interesting and excellent periodical publication conducted at Boston , ( United Statea of America , ) whe ^ e a society has recently been established for the printing . and distribution of books an 4 - tracts , confroverfeial and practieal , on a / |> lait 8 iimlar to * many of 'our own inatituitronsvla New York
» l $ o our € hrifetian brethren are not inactive , arid papers' Trbrti that city ,, ttoriettHlee the opening , by the Rev . &tm& ^ ' f ^ h ^ i ^ t ^ ton , o $ a mm th ^ e for ^ : wwship of t | ie ^^ 00 * ., ; . ,.. . ¦ ' ' :. ' »*¦• • r ^ We shali limit our i ^ tti ^ s ^ Mfe progress of HJriitarianism a ^ lig * ourr » eh ^ because , thou ^ i t ! ie c ^ iirse has been Mmil ^ in the parent ^^ the &Ct 3 . Tvhich < iVe mifeh ^ 8 t ^ % e wdiljFnot be sovfe * iiHar *» o ^^ aSie ^ l It has groNcvn . up / here / und » p ^ -toiM&& ^^ cwiragenWfrit : « TR ^ £ M % f& p ^ rfcH ^ d sfftd the sky mclwrteht , and riOthiflgr fait tfie
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1820, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2486/page/13/
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