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in the year 1800 , with holding Unitarian sentiments ; but his proposal * , A 6 t being seconded , fell to the grouh 4-Hannah Barnard was silenced in
England , as a minister , for her testimony against war , with the aid of several supplementary charges , irregularly and improperly introduced , none of wliich had any co&freiddh with Uriitarianism . fcor was she
disowned as a member of the Society ill Ameriea on any such ground . Thti"mas Eddy next refers to tbeeasfes of William Rathbone and Thomfcs Foster , " each of whom he incorrectly asserts " published a book , taking p # rt with Hannah Barnard , and Advocating Unitarian doctrines , on which account they were both disowned . '
He should have said the letter only , as no charge of the kind was alleged against William Rathbone , though he was well knowri to have beetf k member of the same Unitarian Bpitfk Society , eight or nine years before Thorpas Foster became oiae rffjts members . It is not clear wliitt
Thomas Eddy means by his faext accusatioti against Thomas Foster , whether it refers to his sober and serious remar ics on the Yearly Meeting Epistle for 1810 ; or to his "Tract , " entitled " Doctrinal and Devotional Extracts "
from eacR of thoSe Epistles from 1675 to 1810 . The deputies Of Ratcliff Monthly Meeting as well as those of the Quarterly and Yearly Meeting , to whom his case was referred , alike declined to examine the cbbcltisive evidence these Extracts contained of the collective sense of the Cliurcb , from the uniform manner in which
it had annually expressed itself for so long a series of years . Nor has any direct attempt been yet made , that I am aware of , to weaken ot overturn this evidence . Erroneousl y as Thomas Eddy has stated many circumstances relative to the case
of Thomas Foster , when before the Yearly Meeting 6 f 1814 , which " he afterwards published , " whether Thomas Eddy had ever seen the publication or not , he says , "It is allowed to be a tolerable candid and accurate
statement of the whole proceedings /' including " the whole that was said by himself ,- the respondents , and every Friend that spokfe on the subject before the Meeting . " If thfcrit bfe aity truth in this state ' ment / f homtas Etkty ' a account of the matter is wholly inde-
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fenfciMe . Brit H 3 s bVerchaijgetf ^ icfttfe of the Separatists In irefend , aM of the case of T . FoStei-, was dra \ yn , " fn brder to sliew how decidedly the Society have shetvii their abhorrence of the doctrines Wdtdhceti by them \ and
also" that it ** tiiay be compared with the present stffte pf focifety , withm thie limits of the QtiarteH ^ Meeting ' 6 f Westbury ;** wliere filias Hicks resides knd has long beeii Well known , iirid highly esteelnetl as a distingui ^ lned of
iiiember and approve ^ ininister th ' e Society . By Throinas ifedd $ * b accbiiiit of tte ihe&bers df iliis Quartefly Mee ^ - inrg- ^ they ire mostly heretical enough to say , " We are hot bouiid to believfe
what our reason cannot 6 oiin ; preheh '< Itill at ieirigth tliey brildl ^ r denied the Himhily of Vhri&t , ana ojiferily de-( flared thait his death And siiTffenn ^ tvere not to be considered as a pi * djuti&tory offering , for the sins of mktfkind > &a &c . It may be truly selitl
th ^ t within the Ymirly Meeting * of Ne ' w Yoi % , &s well as the adjacent Yearly M ^ etijkg % Friends were reriiarkaitily preserved in l ^ ve and unity , until Elias Hicks distui-bed that hatniohy . "
How diil fce do this I Tliot ^ b Eddy , under tHe rri ^ k he had assuHi&i , ^ iiysi ' * by le ^ seM ^ g ttfe divine ^ itititenticity tit tbe Holy Srcriptuies' 'tlie coiriiribh but groundless a ^ persiofi against Unftanans . ' * And thfett , " adds he , c < when He ( Elias Hifcfcgn
suppdsed he had sufficiently pre |> area ilie mintl ^ of the people , he cam < e 6 tit with his Umtafian priiiBpT ^ 6 t dofetride , and $ hewied [ a ^ Bndet fAl fondness for specula ; tibn land re& ^ ohing . " fn proof of vvKich , it seeips , hfe " trequfently asserted tfiat lie wsts not
obliged to believe what bur rea . so ' ti could not coinpfehiend , ' / fftfe ieffett of his ttius prfeafcliing the ddctribies oi the g bspei in mtelf ^ feiihfie § s , as ^ ii ihtelugible revelWtioii ^ ctdressed to the rfeason 6 F th ^ n , a ! nd not an unVeveafetii
revelation , a ^ SLbhie others re present it , is thu ^ described fey his itccuset :: " The tnuftitud £ always bein ^; foiifl of something tipw , nni after ftxih WhereteVii ivas knovvn he Was Jo be at Kle ^ tirig , ks ttef were fcotmdfcnt he c 6 iiH hot btf sileirtoWiritr to life
, having a rijinsirk&Wfe Atati inteftjo ' jK L " # fell stored I ^ reattifte MtH k tuim fedge of fttt ScrJbtUrfes , ** d % 6 nt Hi thd fele ¥ clse of Ms gift ** AtfTtojitofc " by rinliire br fjufitcr by ffie ^ Ift of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/35/
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