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Correspondence on a Charge of Heresy against Sir Rose Price , Bart . . [ The following curious Correspondence , which wilt explain itself , vre extract , as ^ orlby of record , from Tie Royal Cdrn * Malt Gazette ( published af Truro ) of Jan . 17 and J ^ 24 , 1824 . Ed , ]
To Sir Rose Price , ttart . " Trereife , Jw . 14 , 1824 . 1 f tf 0 Il ^ ARt > ED to you the re-JL solutions © f tire committee of this district for Promoting Christian Kl ^ wledge , in tvhfch tibey lament yotir refusal to resign , and therefore ie *
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nwve yoi from the situation df President , in consequence of your It vowed disbelief of the essential < loc * ri&es of the Established Ghurch > aaart of your declared determination to disseminate your opinions by every means In your power . In your answer to tny communication you accuse me wrongfully * and at the s&me time refuse me an
opportunity of explanation by concluding your letter in ttese words" *** * / muU leg leave to decline my further communication with p&u * it ig out of my power to r # ud < tn $ reply to this tetter ? I regret y&nt
determination . I think that you will regret it . If you shut the door against me , I must address you from the street . To your accusation of my having acted dishonourably , my reply is short . * The members of our
society have resolved that my conduct has been throughout consistent and honourable , and they have recorded their opinion . " You speak reproachfully ofa letter
which I wrote to you , persuading you to become a member of our society . I hereby beseech you tor permit your amanuensis to copy that letter , that , at my own expense , I may pitblish it to all the wwrfd .
" The resolutions of our committee were not formed from seeing your correspondence with me , for only three of them ( clergymen ) had ever seen it ; but from your avowal to the Rev . Mr .. Townsend , and to me , that
' your opinions were well known , that you had promul ^ ed them every where , and that you would disseminate them by all the means in your power f that your opinions are , that our Saviour wad no more God Iiujarn&te than either of us ; that he was as much
the son of Joseph and Mary as each of u * is the scm of his own father and mother } that atonement through tite blood of OlirLst i $ an absurd doctrine ^ and you illustrated its absurdity % expressions which I do not choose td
repeat , but have recorded : — -tijte&e * Sir , were the chief points of your declaration to us ( though there were many others ) which induced the society to form their resolutions . In your letter you &ay thfttf you yield to no man in attachment to the Church br in loyalty . How is it consistent with attachni ^ iit to the Church to impugn its doctrines ? to send for k book
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88 Correspondence # n tt Ghtifcg& ^ f £ &&& Qgaiwtl 8 ir Mose Price , Bart . „
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the Christian World . The pat ^ a ^ r ^> depicts in vivid language the inmost Sentiments < jff mf hfeart ¦* - 1 ' ?* ^ To Bee Christian societies regarding' eftdi other with the jealousies of rival empires , each aiming to raise itself oa the ruin of all others , making extravagant boasts of superior purity , to their
generally ia exact proportion departure from it , and scarcely deigning to acknowledge % he possibility of obtaining salvation out of their pale , is the odiouA afed disgusting spectacle which modern Christianity presents . tPhe ttond df ttwrity which unites the g ^ nttine followers of Christ in distinction from the world , is dissolved , and
the very terms by which it was wont ( 0 be denoted , exclusively employed to express a predilection for a sect . The evils Which result from this state of division are incalculable . It
supplies infidels with their most plausible topics of invective , it hardens the con * sciences of the irreligious , Weakens the hands of the good , impedes the efficacy of prayer , and is probably the principal obstruction to that ample effusion of the spirit , which is essential to the renovation of the world V *
For this sore evil under the suit , there is ho other remedy than that prescribed by Christ and his apostles eighteen hundred years ago- ^ - ek e for b&zring one another in love . But the still greater evil is , tliat all Christians ireproach each other with the crying M » of their divisions , whilst few are
bent upon amendment May , indeed , fevery follower of thie meek and lowly Jesus , throughout the tvhole extent of Christendom , " both Trinitarian and Vnitarian , love his own heresy less thftn gospel charity P * J . EVANS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/24/
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