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sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal / The first proof 1 shall adduce is an extract from the printed preamble to the Rules of the ( London ) Unitarian Society , instituted in 1791 , for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the practice of Virtue , by the Distribution of Books . It is thus declared : - The
fundamental principles of this Society ar « * tjiat there is One God , the sole former , supporter and governor of the universe , tne < mly proper object of religious worship , and that there is on& Mediator between God and men , the Alan Christ Jesus J who was commissioned by God to instruct men in their duty , and to reveal the doctrines of a future life . '
" The second proof is a quotation from the printed preamble of the Bristol Fellowship Fund Committee ' s Report , of February 1823 , viz . 'The Bristol Unitarian Fellowship Fund recognizes , as the bond of union , the
great ' principle that God , even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , is the only True God ; the only proper object of religious worship ; and concludes ' with that knowledge which Christ himself declared to be life
eter-4 ^ 1 i when , in praying to his Father , he said , And this is life eternal , to know Thee , the Only True God , and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent . '
" Can it , then , with even the semblance of truth , be said , I would ask , that the Unitarian * scarcely believes thu . ti there is a God 1 ' " Will 'Orthodoxy' still do such injustice , as to repeat his harsh and offensive assertion ?
€€ Now , Sir , in respect to ' Orthodoxy's / small grounds of hope / or , ' that God will ever vouchsafe / &c , ( in the : same paragraph , ) I will observe , we cannot , in this respect , again
imitate your correspondent 5 for Unitarians do not presume to limit or confine the mercy of God to the few , or to those only who think as they do , nor do they presume to exclude any on account of their differences of
religious opinions , from being the equal objects of that mercy , forbearance and forgiveness , promised to ail who are the faithful followers of their great Lord and Master .
" Let not this weak , unknowing hand , Presume thy bolts to throw , And deal damnation round the land , On each / judge thy foe / ,
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For it may l > e asked , Who is ' Orthodoasy *—or who are we , that should d # re to prescribe or to limit , according / to our narrow capacities and minds , the power , the mercy of God , the Father Almighty ?
Or—Rejudge His justice— -be the God —of God !!' ** From the influence of education , I once entertained opinions now designated orthodox . But on a calm review of them , have arrived at the conclusions , which , in common with the
majority of Unitarians , I believe to be * Truth ; > but think no ill of jmy one , or body of men , for their understanding or " believing differently from myself . Permit me , in justice to the accused , to state , Unitarians believe in and pray to the same God that Jesus Christ himself nraved to , and Jesus Christ himself prayed toand
, taught his apostles and disciples to address their prayers to , and to worship . They believe in the divine mission of Jesus Christ ; in the miracles performed by him ; in his life , death and resurrection 3 that he will come to be their judge ; that ' he is the Christ , the sent of God .
* ' If this creed be not so capacious as that of the Romanist , or of the Episcopalian of the Church of England , or that of the Presbyterian of the Church of Scotland , Unitarians only ask , is it derived from or sanctioned by the Scriptures ? From the
Scriptures alone would they take their creed ; not from the writings of the Fathers , or from Luther , Calvin or Knox , or the Thirty-nine Articles . —* No , nor from any authority , whether of popes , bulls , conclaves , convocations , synods , or from emperors or kingsbut from the Bible alone . After the .
aspersion , circulated # 020 far and wide in your paper , I think it but equity you should , Mr , Editor , do u ; s the only justice , in your power , to admit a contradiction to ' Orthodowy' I am liis well-wisher , and only regret he should have entertained such harsh
and incorrect opinions of Unitarians , For many past years your constant reader " , I remain , respectfull y * yours , "A LAYMAN . "
"P . S . My object being explanation , and not controversy , I h&veno intention of troubling you again * ** - r
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15 Q Correspondence on a Charge of ' Heresyagainst Sir Rose Priee , Bart
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/22/
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