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on a moor in Cornwall , at a loss which way to direct his steps , till he heard the sound of a distant bell . Such was the first appearance of that wonderful man in this " remote corner" I See
now the influence of his opinions : count the thousands who bless his name . And may not opinions be now propagated , though in a remote corner , with a power which may astonish
us , or rather those who survive us ? If right , shall we not encourage them ? If wrong , shall we not endeavour to depress them ? Is this doctrine of pseudo-conformity right or wrong ? In Athens it was a crime to be of no
party : but the crime of being of all parties was never stigmatized , because ( like parricide ) it was never contemplated : it is the principle of a new sect . In my mind it is as noxious and unwholesome in the religious world
as the plague is in the natural world ; and though it may first shew itself in a remote corner , it is not the less to be watched , proclaimed , avoided and ( if possible ) checked . C . V , LE GRICE . [ Mr . Le Grice ' s Thoughts on Inconsistency in our next . Ed . ]
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bm , June 10 , 1824 . AS I have been lately informed that the gentleman who was the Clerk , or more properly the Chairman df the three last Yearly Meetings of Friends , held in London , had not even seen a printed copy of the large edition of ten thousand copies of a Creed , the first three articles of which
were inserted in Vol . XIX . p . 15 , of your Journal ; I wish to exonerate him from the imputation of having received from his American correspondent , in print , any of those prohibited articles , which the Yearly Meeting of 1823 " ordered to be locked up in the fire proof for safe keepintr . **
The " large packet" I spoke of , p . H , has been , I find , lately represented as containing chiefly American newspapers or other periodical works , in some of which those controversies
among the American Friends had been discussed . This important packet , therefore , probably also contained some account of the futile attempt of the same parties to censure and silence t 3 * e truly venerable Klias Ilickes , for
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preaching what they called heterodox doctrines ? but which were generally approved by the great body of the Society in Pennsylvania . It might also have conveyed MS . copies of the said Creed . Its patron , the Meeting for Suffering's , had previously received ; in its collective capacity , too memorable a lesson from the Yearly Meet ^ ing , for so imprudently printing that document , and presenting it in that state to the church , in full assembly , for its approbation , as if their work
was incapable of amendment , even for its " Pontiff" to venture upon an open transgression of their prohibition . Some stray copies in print have , nevertheless , certainly arrived in this country . Under the conviction that these means are at hand , to
correct any error that may be found in the copy I now send you of the other nine articles of this most singular production , I am induced to offer them for insertion in your valuable
Journal ; that it may be preserved as a useful warning against any similar departure from the solar path of reason , enlightened by the lamp of genuine revelation . This document is . —— ^^ mm *^» ^ h-f <^ ^^ * Tfc * a . wm v ^ ^ w ^ »» w ^ m- k «* » ^* v » - % jr ^^ r »^ -4 >—* A A \ J JK KJ
^^ ^ perhaps , only worth preserving whilst such incompetent persons as ii 3 authors bear sway over , and are suffered to occupy influential stations in a professed Christian Church , the
members of which are , generally speaking , I conclude , by the judicious rejection of this intended symbol of their faith , much better informed , equally well-disposed , and of sounder mind than these blind teachers .
Whoever they are , whether ministers or elders , they have dravvn , with much complacency , a confused and dark portrait of their own theology , very defective in perspicuity and in real scriptural knowledge ; at the same
time , equally remarkable for incorrect quotations of Scripture , sometimes I fear intentionally , in order to uphold their preconceived notions and prejudices , or with very censurable carelessness and inconsistency , if they esteem those writings as containing
a true record of special revelations from God . That your readers , and especially those who are of the Society of Friends , may the more readily judge for themselves of this American production , I shall annex a reference to the texts which I suppose are al-
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The proposed American Quaker Creed . 339
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/19/
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