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streams which make glad the city of our God . If aught of jfood hath accrued from the humble labours of the writer of this article , either as minister or as tutor , especially of those whom , during a period of upwards of twenty years , were trained up by him to the Christian ministry , it is under the blessing * of heaven ascribed to bis having been early smitten with the admiration of this excellent man , distinguished as he was for unwearied diligence , diffusive
benevolence and ardent piety . His bust , recently executed by his great-grandson , he esteems the choicest ornament of his habitation . Endeared by the transcendant worth of the origi * nal , and emanating from the skill of an immediate descendant excelling in that department of the arts , he not
imfrequently contemplates it with an affectionate veneration . Indeed , he bequeaths it to his children and to his children ' s children , and , should the frail memorial endure , to his latest posterity ! Righteousness alone is immortal !
I conclude with the avowal of that truly Christian prelate , tlie late Dr . Richard Watson , Bishop of Llandaff : "An intolerant spirit has abated much of its violence amongst ourselves .
We pray ( Jod that it may be utterly extinguished in every part of Christendom , and that the true spirit of Christianity , which is the spirit of meeknessy peace and love 9 may be introduced in its siead ! If different
men in carefully and conscientiously examining the Scriptures , should arrive at different conclusions , even on points of the last importance , we tr « 3 t that God who alone knows what every man is capable of , will be merciful to him that is in error . We
trust that lie will pardon the Unitarian if he be in an error , because he has fallen into it from the dread of becoming an idolator , of giving that glory to another which he conceives to be due to God alone . If the
worshiper of Jesus Christ be in an error , we trust that God will pardon his mistake , because he has fallen into it from a dread of disobeyingwhat he conceives to be revealed
concerning the nature of the Son or commanded concerning the honour to be given him . Both are actuated by the game principle , the fear of God , and though that principle impels them
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into different roads , it is p ur hope and belief that if they add to their faith , charity , they will meet in heave > l" J . BVAN& . ' ' v ¦ . ^ MiMiAl ^^ H . " > i —
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^ Sir , Bolton , Mareh 16 > 18 & 4 . 1 AM desirous to correct ; $ mistake which has crept into the last num . her of the Monthly Repository , ( p . 120 , ) respecting the congregation assembling in Bank Street , Boltob ^ which is there called Presbyterian . 'Whatever was the import of tliiq " word in the last century , it denotes , in the
present day , the profession of sentiments very nearly allied to the unintelligible opinions of Calviij , So far from such tenets being now entertained b y the Society , they have pleasure in tue recollection , that tUejr were among the first congregations m Lancashire who declared themselves in
favour of the Unitarian doctrine ; an < d in such belief they have continued ever sinc £ . As long as nearly ft century ago they were favoured witji the services of an excellent preach er , whose name and opinions have been long known to the Unitarian public , by his admirable little treatise on " The
Sovereignty of the Divine Administration / ' I allude to the Rev . Thomas Dixon , He was succeeded by the Rev . Philip Holland , whose two volumes of Discourses sufficiently shew that his sentiments were the same as
those of his predecessor : and those also of his colleague , in the latter two years of his ministry , the late Mr . Havvkes , of Manchester . After this period , for more than thirty years the Rev . John Holland , unceasingly continued to advocate ! and enforce the
doctrines of Unitarianism . A precarious state of health , from which he has now , in a great measure , happily recovered , induced him to resign the pastoral office , under a conviction that
he could no longer attend satisfactorily to its various duties ; and his place was filled , during ^ short period , by my immediate predecessor , the Rev . Noah Jones .
It is only necessary to mention these circumstances to remove an impression which has lately become somewhat prevalent , from circumstances to which it will be needless to allude , and to shew that the Society is still the same as it has been , for almost a century , decidedly Unitarian . FRANKLIN BAKER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/46/
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