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4 he connexion between them and myself . la that letterr I stated , thai I shooM dieeontirt&e drawing She above earn fromtk&m foods , juniil I should hear from them to the cimtrnrg ; tbtss ratimating bdv \ rilKngne 3 s to act as
their Missionary , if they kadi no objection to my publicly professing 1 aad teacbiag trbat I sincerely believed This , I am well aware , was a degree of ChristianUKwleration , which it was
to © « uch to expect tkern to exercise ; bat by ftot accepting this overture , they have brought « m themselves all the obloquy of dismissing a Missionary wba Irad offended them duly by fcUawmg the dictates of his conaciencc ; tvhile I eiijay the pleasing satisfaction of having been lumest ia
hw » vavvai of the trtrth—honest in i ^ inqufehhw th eir salary , which , if I had waited for their dismissal , I might have retained a twelvemonth longer , and honest to the engagements which I had made by offering still to labour as their Missionary , if they would accept of such services as I could consekntiously # ive
-3 . Efom Mr . Ivimey ' s practice , it would appear not to be inconsistent with serei&g the cause of reputed Orthodoxy % q impose on the
inacquaititantfe of an adversary with the particular facts of a case . In vindicating- himself for applying * to «* e the term Soeinian , ke describes a Socinian a& one who * r&tows his determined
opposition to the doctrine of the proper divinity of the Son of God , and defies that his death was an atonement for sitt , " and who 4 i declares that Jesus Christ was a mere man , and that he bad no existence before
he was born of the VfrgiUy&e . ^ Now Mr . Ivimey , If he is as " well acquamfcedvvith ail the transactions of t&e fia ^ iidt Missi o nary Socie ty , ^ as he profee&es to be , must have known & £ the letter given above , m which , while I deny the Supreme Deity of
Cfatfistr , I ttt ttie settle time avow my belief irt his two-fold nature as the Soft of God and as the Son of man , iii Jiis pre-ejtktence , and in his atoning sacrifice ; and yet Mr . I . des ribfcfi mfe as rejecting those doctrinea which 1 had affirmed that I bethe
K ^ ev ^ d In only siuthentio document Whfeh could have reached Mnn on the sUlVject . Was this ju * t to me ? Was this farr ' to his opponent ? Was this
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consistent wth that sacred regaix tvhich is doe M tmiifM I 4 ; It appeairs from Mit . I / s anco « irt that I liave < ir iiAvfully clieappoiBted the expectations of the Society by whi ^^ Iivas ? sent 16 J ® M&S > 1 £ the
members of that Society expected that my sentiments and feeliags , my convictions of truth and datyv siiottlii always remain ia every re ^ peet tito samey then they expected bot oaly wkt was highly undesirably even hud I continued a Trinitarian , but wkat
was hi fact imipossible , enjoyuig * , as I did , tike advantages of increasing years , and iteeessarily exposedy as I was , to new impressions and a ^ sociatSons . If the members of that Society e ^ j )© eted that , to please them , I would resist the force of ti ^ th , and sitenee ihe
voiee of conscience , and thus become a hypocrite and dissembler ; iSk&k diey expecled what certainly contained no impossibility , but what was bo less certainly opposed to far higler claims than any which they conkl have upon ? me 5 they expected what ! never promised to do , and what , if f had been
so culpable as to promise , I shmild have been still more so in perforaaing . But if , which I am willing to suppose , they expected that I should profess and teach only what I 3 ince » ely believed to be the truth of God , ami
that I should he faithful , diligent and persevering-, according to * the knowledg-e and strength and means which I possessed , in preaching the glorious gospel of the blessed God , then am I bold to affirm that their expectations have not been so " awfully
disappointed , " as Mr . I . thought & | ta represent- The propagation of that gospel , in all its genuine purity and native excellence , amongst the inhabitants of this country , is and will be the object of my unceasing endeavours . Bat Mr . I . charges me with " insulting ** Jeaue Christ . I have of late , » f-
tene-r than once , been called upon to rebut such a charge : but I can truly affirm , that its frequent repetition , instead of weakening " , only strengthens the deep feeling of horror which it first excited . Believing , as I do , ** that Jesus Christ was holy , harmless , undefiled , and separate from sinners ; ** that be was- a man approved of God , by sig-ils and wonders which God did by him ; " and that under God "he was the author and iinislier of tha *
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J $ 8 Mr . Adam ' s Lettmis the Committee , of the Baptist Missionary Society
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/40/
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