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meats of my letter , for it was not a letter of metely pressing solicitations ;
confirm the promises made for them at their baptism . But the chiSf SJtot is that ] from which I would save the reader , and that is the imagining from the confusion of sentences in thfe paragraph , that as for as a belief in the Apostles' Greed goes , Sir Rose Pjefce might with propriety continue a member of our Society . Those whd ibay
and he was elected . Does he reproach me with this letter ? Why does he not publish it ? \ Why has he not yielded to my solicitations on this point ? I intr ^ at him to send this letter to my bookseller , and I pledge myself to print it . —Pressing solicitamyself to print it . —Pressing
solicitations i If I am mistaken , I think our Society will acknowledge , that I have zealously pleaded their cause by argiiment in this letter ; and Sir R . P . ndust p ardon me , if I tbink that this letter is kept back , because it would do me credit .
He speaks of my * shewing a private correspondence / This assertion is so mingled with the whole charge , that I will leave it to the last . " As to * his expression of my assuming the opinions of a member of the infallible Church of Rome / any person would imagine that he was
combating opinions , which I had volunteered , instead of my being engaged in contradicting his opinions . If he challenges me to defend our Sacramental Service , and at the same time declares ,- as he actually does , that part of it ( though he attends and partakes ) is Popery , I must leave him
to apply to my arguments what terms he likes . If our Communion Service be in part Popery , so far my support of the Church of England entitles me to the appellation which he uses , and I submit .
" He then proceeds in a manner so curious , and so ingenious , that I must select the whole passage . * The confirmation of his Majesty ' s subjects ( by which they become members of the Church of England ) requires no more than a belief in the Apostles' Creed .
On the contrary , the clergy at their ordination are required to subscribe to other creeds - I am persuaded , therefore , you have done wisely in
appointing the Rev . Canon Rogers to be the President of the Society for promoting the knowledge you endeavour to convey . ' Here I must save our late President from an error , and the reader from an error . The
confirmation of his Majesty ' s subjects requires more than a belief in the Apostles' Creed ; it requires that they should answer all the questions in the catechism , and that they should ratify and
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be led into this mistake , should remember his positive declarations to the contrary ; and I beg leave to observe , that Sir R . P ., in our conference , so reproached the clergy with professing to believe a particular part of this creed , that it was the only time in which Mr . Townsend felt inclined
to break through our determination of not engaging in any dispute . " I come now to a very important point : —so important , that I must quote the whole passage . He says , 4 If disapproving any OP the tetifets in
the Liturgy is to be regarded as a sign of a man ' s being an Unitarian , then certainly I am one ; and I mentioned many respectable persons , who , I believe , might be called so also on the same ground , thbugh they constantly attended Church Service . To Which
Mr . Le Grice replied , Then you say you are an Unitarian . My answer was , No I I say no such thing—my tenets are different . I say , If fcr disapproving and not joining in all the
Liturgy , as it now stands , a man is to be called an Unitarian , then I am one . ' What , Sir ! do you mean to say that you did not use the very identical expressions recorded in my letter , and others' too horrid to be
printed , but which I have related to my friends ? Suppose that what you here say did form a part of our conversation , would you wish to infer , that this was all that passed ? If you ever have occasion to apologise to those gentlemen whose names you
used , you may fly to this explanation , and they may be satisfied ; but I , Sir , am bound to Cell you that your statement is not correct . ! On my word , I never said , * Then you say you are an Unitarian / for such an interrogation would shew that I doubted what was
to be implied by your declaration , or that I had attached my own meaning to your words . Nor , Sir , did you appeal to Mr . Townsend on any such expression . CYou appealed once to
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Correspondence on a Charge of \ Heresy against Sir Rose Price ^ Burt . 143
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/15/
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