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portioita ^ e insignificance of those nifce an 4 mittov . pQinfs on which they separate , and actually or seemingly differ . \ fciju : readers should be informed , that C . E . ' letter and the reply to it
were reviewed in the Monthly Repository , XVJ . 46 ; but that I have reason to believe few of either have got into circulation , such Friends as are booksellers in London having , I am informed , thought fit to decline selling both the one and the other .
Should you insert this communication , I hope Mr . Alexander of Yarmouth , the printer of the first letter , will soon send some copies to Hunter ' s or Eaton ' for sale , in order to counteract almost as effectual a mode
of suppressing inquiry within the pale of a small Society , as was ever adopted by the Church of Rome in the plenitude of her power , and in the darkest period of her priestly domination . It was with great pleasure I
heard Wm . Allen , a minister amongst Friends , at the Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign School Society on the 16 th inst ., eloquently and impressively advocate far different and truly liberal principles .
BEREUS . Esteemed Friend , Having lately had an opportunity of perusing thy " Letter to the Young Men and Women of the Society of Friends , on the Yearly Meeting Epistle for 1820 , " I conceive that I could not better discharge
my duty as a junior member of the Society of Friends , than by thus addressing thee . Aud though personally unacquainted with thee , a coincidence of opinion will , I trust , be deemed a sufficient Apology for this intrusion upon thy attention . Tlie perusal of thy dispassionate ,
firm and intelligent address , has been the'source of the most pleasurable anticipation ' s . It has convinced me that the spirit of inquiry is diffusing its genial inf luence , ana dispelling the crude , unqcriptural and unconstitutional doctrines of modern orthodoxy , as adopted by many of the active members of our Society .
To discourage investigation , to insist upon the lhnited natnre of our faculties , and to hold up implicit faith and blind oftedience , qs " honourable prudence , " is only what might be expected from the advocate of a weak cause . And weak indeed must that Tcause be » > tfaat : fpr its defence , has recourse to such futile sub-
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terfuges , such a perversiottpf couimon sense , derogatory alike tp reason apd to revelation . And it is m this light that I view the reply to thine , which , however plausible it may appear fo superficial
minds , is as deficient in sound argument as it is in scriptural authority for its mandatory advice . That the grand and simple doctrlne 9 of genuine Christianity will ultimately
triumph over the distorted , inferential and unscriptural creed of Trinitarianism , is my firm belief , and I entirely acquiesce with thee in the opinion that truth must finally conquer .
In conclusion , I request thy acceptance of my sincere acknowledgments for thy endeavour to promote ( what I conceive to be ) the true interests of our Society , by thy attempt " to rouse the spirit of inquiry where it is dormant , and to counteract the support which the sanction of a grave assembly might give
to error . I am , With sentiments of sincere esteem , Thy Friend , 4 Mo . 1822 . To Charles EIcocky Yarmouth .
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Evesham , Sir , June 25 , 1822 . BEG leave to offer a few remarks I in reply to a letter in your last Repository , [ p . 271 , ] intended to persuade your readers " that the publication of Perm ' s Sandy Foundation Shaken by Unitarians , without taking tjie least notice of his Vindication , " if such were the fact , " is at once disingenuous and unjust . " The writer also with equal truth asserts , that " there are in the Unitarian Preface" to that work , " two . instances of an entire want of candour in the author . " These severe charges , confidently as they are advanced , may be easily refuted . Tfce first is , that the author does not notice Pe ^ n / s letter to Lord Arlington ; by whosfc warrant he was imprisoned * &n < J of which letter the Editor certainl y cannM say was " ignorant . " A . W he ight n ^ conclusively proved , from i % » tnat Penn was as indisposed Ip recant * Qnd to avow doctrine * " totally opposi te when he wrqte * X \ Wk jcrttefr ^(* ^ that time a c ^ e ^ rispner ^ n fee Tower of London , for i ^ W ^ in gJhe fcandy Foundation &J&&W * M wl 1 ** * f * word about thfcip&mG tvm ' * ° a
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466 Penn ' s " Sand & Foundation . * '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/10/
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