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mtreated yon not to disturb his mind , but to attack divines , who had professionally studied such subjects : and it was the feeling excited by hearing your reply , which always stimulated me in h * y task , which I cheerfully undertook , of opposing you . I never sought opportunity ; but I never shrank from it .
" vVi 4 , li such a sentence ringing in iey ears , and . echoing at my heart , could it be believed that I would ever enter into a contract 9 which would put my light Ckowever humble ) under a bushel , and leave my . neighbour and friend to think that the clergy deserved
the yeproach ? There remains , I think , only one question to be answered , viz . Wlie # , and of vvhoin I obtained possess ! 0 ** Qf a certain book , * which bears on the fif $ t , page this inscription—* tlie XJift of Rose Price , Esq . * I bought it at the sale of the books of
the Rev . Mr . Thomson , with others of EvausQn ' s works ; which I knew Mr . T , possessed , and I attended the sale for the express purpose of buying these book $ > that they might not be dispersed in the neighbourhood * I do not see the drift of the question , but I hope I have answered jt fully .
" But , 7 after all , whether I have a baok , or have not a book , whether I have been , courteous or otherwise , what has all this to dp with another person ' s conscience and conduct ? Or what has my behaviour as an individual to do with the motives and measures of a soeietvrof men ?
" You say that * you have received a blow . ' It may be so : but it is one which you have gjvem to yourself . You have run headlong against the walls of the Churchy and the severity of the blow is : in proportion to your blindness and itnpetiiQsijty . .
' ** Your aim seems to be to make the public believe . that your opinions had , , beeu - untimely or improperly revealed . , Howpoor iff this ! How inconsistent with your vnunt thrown out
to Mr . Townsend ai ) td myself , with almost ; breathless eagerness , before we could fully deliver our message from the Committee ' € My sentiments * # re well knofpn : Ipromulge — — , ,. — .. j-. y , , —> 1 ; ' :. ' I > : ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ?¦ . _ ¦ ' i * " What these sentiments are , may be $£ en in my former letter and in parts of
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them everywhere ; and will disseminate Ahem by every means in my power J € * I am , Sir , yours , &c . " C . V . LE GRICE , " Secretary of Committee for Pro * moting Christian Knowledge .
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" To the Editor of the Royal Corntaall Gazette . '' Sir , ' ' * As my name has appeared in your paper in connexion with the late
proceedings of the Penzance Christian Knowledge Society , I must beg the favour of your inserting a few words in explanation of what passed at a previous interview with Sir Rose Price , and also in vindication of the Society ' s measures .
Sir R . P ., in his letter printed in your last paper , quotes me as allowing that , at the interview alluded to , he disclaimed Unitarianism ; and I fully grant that he did so , toiidtm verhis , and , moreover , that he professed his belief in an atonement ; but he ought in candour to have added ( for on this the matter hinges ) that
this ; in Sir R . P . ' s great respect ito the memory of Mr . Thomson for putting Evauson into his hands , aud in his high praise of Rammohun Roy ' s book , which he has sent for to put in the bookseller ' s window . Evauson rejects the Gospels of St . Matthew and St . John , and his work
was well described by the Rev , Samuel Greatheed to me , ( a learned Dissqriter , with whom i had the honour and pleasure to be acquainted , when at Penzance , ) as * an attempt to subvert the doctrines of the Atonement and Divinity of Christ on principles equally subversive of the
whole , as of any part of the Sacred Scripture . '—Rani inohun Roy is a learned Hindoo , who , I understand , admires the precepts of the gospel , but rejects the doctrine of the Trinity , and the miracles of our Saviour . He appears to be a kind of Hindoo Rousseau . Sir R , P . declared ,
aud triumphed in the idea , that Rammohun Roy is unanswerable . Let those who would know to the contrary , peruse a Defence of the Deity and Atonement of Jesus Christ , in reply to Rammohua Roy ,
by Di \ Marshman . —I beg leave to thank M . for liis kind , remarks , and to tell him that I shall not be drawn into any Socinian controversy . I shall have nothing ' to do with opinions ; but with consistency of conduct connected lyith opinions /'
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Correspondence en a Charge of Heresy against Sir Rose Price , Baft . \ 4 t 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/19/
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