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request , which has produced the publication of these two sermons . The subjects of them are certainly important and interesting , and I have only tj * regret my not having done more jui&ice to them .
You know the character of Mr . Fry of Billericay , and the noble sacrifice he made to Ins convictions of Christian truth . He made us a visit in October last , and preached at Bridport two or three times with great acceptance . Some of ray friends
requested him to publish the sermon which I have inclosed , a parcel of which I did not : receive till yesterday . You will perceive that he understands the subject of religious liberty ; and I wish every one who may be disposed to censure him for the change of his sentiments from Calvinism to
Unitarianism , and his open avowal of this change , would read this discourse with attention . He would have done himself the pleasure of paying his personal respects to you , had he returned through Dorchester . It seems as if there was a scheme
in agitation among our great men , to emancipate the Catholics , without granting any relief to the Protestant Dissenters . This I conclude from a letter I received last week from our good friend Dr . Toulmin . The following is an extract :
"A letter from London this week informs me , that endeavours are using by those in power , to prevail with British Dissenters to let the Catholic emancipation take place , without putting in their claims to equal freedom
from the disabilities they are under , l > y the Corporation and Test Acts . Some classes who have been applied to , are said to have promised to be as quiet as government wishes them to be /'
Who these tame Dissenters are , the Rev . Mr . Marten I suppose , and the other receivers and distributers of the regium donum money , could inform us . Surely they can be none who have any thing of the spirit of the Old Noncons . What shall we live to see in this age of wonders !
I beg your pardon for intruding so much on your time . I intended to nave written but a few lines when I begun , bu ^ hiive been carried on irisenil ? 7 froin one faing to another . M / s . w akefield and the family are I hope
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well . Mr . Fawcett joins in kind * e » membrance to you and them , with Dear Sir , Yours most respectfully , THOS . HOWE . The Rev . G . Wakejield .
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Mr . Justice Bayletfs doctrine of the Trinity . 2 &
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Sift , THERE has just fallen into my , hands , " The Book of Common Prayer , &c , by the Hon . Sir John Bayley , Knight , one of the Judges of
his Majesty ' s Court of King ' s Bench /* a handsome 8 vo . volume , printed in the year 1816 ; and I have been much pleased at the piety which the learned Judge displays , but astonished at the ultra-orthodox doctrines which he lays down , as if from the Bench . His
comment upon the first verse of the Book of Genesis , is as follows , p . 483 : "The word here and in other parts of this chapter translated * God' is a plural noun and yet is followed b y a verb singular ; so that Moses proba ^ J bly understood , that under the termr
* God , ' more than one Existence or Being was included , and yet that those Existences or Beings were so united , that they might properly be considered as only One . God is a Spirit , John Iv . 24 , without flesh , or blood , or body , or any thing tangible ( see 1 st
of 39 articles ) , of infinite wisdom and goodness , always knowing what is best and always willing what is best . And as men only disagree when , from th ' e imperfection of their nature , they are not wise enough to know what is best , or not good enough to will it ; soT ^ from the perfection of the Dixine
nature , the Beings or Existences which partake of it , from always knowing what is best and always willing it , must necessarily in all instances be unanimous , or of one mind . Though each is capable of thinking for himself , judging For himself , and acting for himself , yet each must , from the consummate perfection of their natures , come to the same conclusion with the
others ; and upon every point on which there can be deliberation or judgment , they must inevitably be one in mind . The doctrine , then , of our church , ' that the Father is God , the Son God ,
and the Holy Ghost God , and yet that they are not three Gods but One God / may easily be understood . Each i $ a distinct Existence or Being ; each ^ earpable of thinking , judging * nd fcefcing
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/29/
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