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BIf . T < iwns £ iid on my misajiprefeettd-Hi £ yotir message about choosing Pre * sident . ) You said openly and expIU cdtly , c I no inore believe that Christ was God Incarnate , than I believe either of us to be : I am an Unitarian /
Yoyi then qualified , or , if you choose , contradicted the expression hy saying , No ! iiQt quite an Unitarian , for they do not believe an Atonement , and I do * 1 I think the Atonement was by Christ ' s obedience to all God ' s
commands , and submitting to an ignominious death ; but not through his blood , as your Church teaches . The expression of ' I am an Unitarian' was your own declaration , not extorted by
any interrogation ; and you qualified it by your acknowledgment of a belief in an Atonement . —After this qualification , you added words which drew from me this remark : * Thenyou believe our Saviour to be the son of
Joseph and Mary : ' and you said , * Yes I ' —Your idea of an Atonement made by a man .. by . obedience so far as to submit to a public and ignominious death , would , as stated in your letter , lead a person to befieve ( and would almost appear to be so intended ) that your idea of . the Atonement was in accordance with the doctrine of the
Church of England : but so far from being so , you ridiculed our belief in language which drew from me this short reply : * Our Saviour says , This i $ my blood which is shed for you / What your language was , again I say , I will not print . —Nor will I print another remark of yours , to which I simply ejaculated , ' Oh ! fie V
" If disapproving any of the tenets of the Liturgy I I never remember in my part of your discourse such an expression : and if such an expression among others had been used , is this
the whole truth ? That you declared yourself an Unitarian , ( qualifying * the expression by the acknowledgment of an Atonement , ) and that you made the declaration unasked * that it was your own avowal , I declare solemnly : and
knowing the equivocal meaning even of the term Unitarian , I then put the question , which ifrati to put your mean- ' ing out of all doubt . —* Any of the * teuets of the Liturgy !* And crin you * Sir , think that this is ati answer to my letter ? Can you descend from the high ground of defiance , thus to jat *
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tempt to shelter yourself fc- Why quit your kigb ground ^ and ttos enabM me to look down jupon yon ? If I could indulge those feelings whi&h yai * attribute to note , why thus enable me to indulge them ? ¦
.-. " What was the general import of your conversation , may be conceived from your concluding declaration , — < that you still received the Sacrament , and would prosecute any Clergyman who should refuse it to you : but in my letter I referred to nothing that
might be implied , I confided myself to facts , and this you call a iiiischievous and desperate attempt , tf And now I lift my shield against what you had selected as the sharpest arrow of your quiver ; your warning " to my neighbours * not to admit me
into their houses . ' Thearrow is sharp , nay poisoned , but alas ! for you it misses of its -mii ^^ beaittse ^^ bB ^ mfflMi slides from under your feet while you shoot it . Instead of saying that I
would proclaim in the street whfct I heard in the house , I intreated to be admitted into the house , that my voices might not be heard from the street ; And here , Sir , you raoveme to ask , whether if I had warned the Rev . Dr . Pearson , his Majesty ' s Chaplain , his confidential Spiritual Minister , before you set off on your last journey to town , not to admit you into his house ,
because it was part of your plan to get at him in . order to get at the religious sentiments of the King , whether I should not have acted right as a man and as a magistrate ? Wheft you stated that you knew what you said of the King to be a * fac ^ I ¦ ¦ " listened with attention , as I expected to hear the progress of your search . I said , * You cannot know this ; and you replied ; I know it for a fact /
** You desire the Committee * to in- * quire how Mr . Le Grice did not know your religious opinions in the year 1818 / - —I answer , for the same reason that any common observer would not
know them from your tetter in the newspaper in 1824 , about Confirms tion and the Apostles * Creed and the Atonement . Though I might gather that your opinions were hot strictly orthodox I had no reasoti to know or
even to imagine that you were so far gone as to believe , as you now profess to do x that our Savjouf was mere Man >
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144 Correspondence on a Change of Heresy against Sir Rose Price 3 Hurt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 144, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/16/
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