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ami that the Gospels of St , Matthew and &t * John ar ^ « fpuria ^ . Y * hjf $$ r nions in $ 11 their honors * had not th « n burst upon me . I was willing to believe tfeat as you wUli your femjly regularly attended Church and received the Sacrament , that you were well-affected to par Church , and that .
5 f a few errors led yott a little out of the way , a more intimate acquaintance with our Society * ami its principles and its books , would set you fully light . —i used arguments in a letter of eight pages , not to solicit bo Jtnuch as to convince you , and when you
permitted me to sign your certificate , I triumphed in the thought that I had made a proselyte . —You should not reproach me with my liberality ; for I tell you now that at this moment , if you had kept yaur opinions to yourself , ami had not become the champion of them , I should have been silent .
I should have said , * He is ia « rror ; but his secrecy shews that he doubts ; lie feels that he may l > e in error , and with such feelings all may he well at last / So far from being eager to take
the steps whick we did : and what were those steps ? fa $ mjitest ypu to resign , and to elect a clergyman in your room ^) we did not take them till we were shamed into doing so * Be it a credit to our forbearance or a
stigma on our hesitation ,, let it be recorded , that we did not determine on suggesting to you to resign till ive heard that a Missionary Society in Penzance had came to # resolution not agrnn ta solicit you to be their Vhafa-Jtmn . Before I could have known this ,
evsn in March last * you qvote my letter , in which I pi * t it to your courtesy and honour whetfeer you ought net to resign ; you exhibit ey ^ ry proof of my long forbearance , a ^ d absolutely reproach me with my liberality * Ifou ask Uow I came to suffer you . to be President two years after iJ ^ ew y our opinions > Hovv ?—From snowes ,
which I am sorry you cannot estimate , from delicacy and feeling . It W ^ P fi burthen on my mind , which increme as you published you * opittienfl : I confessed my feelings iu Marql ^ , pfor after your avowals it wm i |^ p 0 ssible to suppress them . ) &nd in Jaamnnr I
* I -fead- mt thm Iwsatsd yo ^ ir s « Qttmenu mi the miracle at Bethtsda / ' .
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mm mtc&iJL t& ofee ^ tlMfe f * m $ ^ £$ Why m I mk 4 iflfemn % ki * tal % iwlin 1324 ? Wiiy * . M&J wf ^^ msm ^ Pabli ^ h my l ^ tfs : ^ and the puWk will be sati&fi ^ d . : v c - ^ " Any person , any stranger ^ would , imagine thut you had simply es ^ resf ^ tl doubts to me on a passage ia St . Matthew ; njay , you assert th ^ t it wzs not
a controversy entered inif * between two opponents , Mit m investigation entered mto -confidentially between two Jrienfls * Not opponents ! then h&ve I mistaken our characters for
nearly three y ^ ar $ . That we hme been friends I do not deny ; but on the foundation of our faith I have been your constant , decided and open opponent . Have you not told me in xi voice that many might feear ' , that Ridtobe
ley « indGranmtrdeser ^ d burned me framing the Thirty ^ nine Afltfeles ? Is this the language af n confidential friend i I xiev ^ r met you lat terly without expecting to hear something , which I ivas prepared asd artn ^ d if >
oppose . Confidential ! Will you say that you ever sent nae a single argument that you hwe not used in company and every where ? wMchv yali have not proclaimed on the
housetop >—Our arguments have never been on doctrinal points , ( you do not seem to understand , or wilfully misapply tfee term , ) but on the credibility of the Gospels ^ two of which you wkh to prove to be spurious , mid wky ^ it Is
easy to see , because they contain such convincing' testioaony w the divinity of Christ . We ne ?^ r disputed 10 m u doctrinal point . This very p assage of St . Matthew was . brought forward by you as one of your tiiumphant arguments against the credibility of Jhds Gospel : it was an w ^ uiment that you had used at the table of a ^ rctlenaao , long since dead ^ and sent him to bed with a . mind ill-disposed for Test . Jt
was an argument used triumphantly by yan m riding along the high-way , before yom ihrew it out as a mailenge tame . And this you . would HQw ^ all % con ^ dential iiiveBtig-ation , and ^ not between two opponents J ^ &Bd m > to it
its being confidentialJ- ^ yim seat to me vmttexiby your clerk * yopir household clerk . I had no otyeetMm M tlii » , for I * vislied every bodyiso } pmw that you had not got all ^ he field tx > yon atif f that you had an xqxpenent : but J
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Correspondencevn a Cimrgg of Heresy agaimt Sir Hose Price * B 4 tt » V £ >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/17/
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