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ministered knowingly and designedly in contradiction to the intention of the person who created the trust ; when there is no interference of legislative authority , nor any impracticableness or even difficulty in the faithful observance of that intention ? In the
instances referred to , I conceive that the chief criminality lay with those trustees who , eighty or ninety years ago , began the system of violating
their obvious duty : but I must confess myself unable to perceive that their successors down to the present time , though not equally chargeable with the blame , are free from the
guilt of participation . I must , however , profess my conviction that , if any Unitarian were to intrust to me his property , for the endowment of academical institutions or places of religious worship , and I had the same kind and degree of evidence of his will and intention as exist ia the cases
adverted to ; and if I were to apply the proceeds of that property to the support of "Calvinistic chapels or colleges , I should well merit a place among those whom the apostle declares to be unqualified to inherit the king-dona of God . J . PYE SMITH .
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aications [ as a minister ] for more than forty years , but generally in opposition to those that held them to be the only rule of faith and practice ; and my views have always been in accordance with our primitive Friends
on this point . And at divers times when in conversation with hireling teachers , ( and at other times , ) I have given it as my opinion , that so long as they held the Scriptures to be the only rule of faith and practice , and by
which they justify wars , hireling ministers , predestination , [ in ihe Calvinistic sense of the word , } and what they call ordinances , ( to wit , ) water baptism , and the passover supper , mere relicts of the Jewish laws , so long the Scriptures did such much more harm than good ; but that the
fault was not in the Scriptures , but in their literal and carnal interpretation of them , and that would always be the case , until they came to the Spirit that gave them forth , as no other power could break the seal and open them £ the less plain and more mysterious parts ] rightly to us .
" Hence I have observed m my public communications , and in conversation \ yith the members of different denominations , and others who held that the Scriptures are the
primary and only rule of faith and practice , that according to the true analogy of reasoning , c that for which a thing is such , the thing itself is more such / as the Spirit was before the Scriptures and above them , and without the
Spirit they could not have been written or known . And with this simple but conclusive argument , I have convinced divers of the soundnesss of our doctrine in this respect , that not the Scriptures but the spirit of truth , which Jesus commanded his disciples to wait for , as their only rule , that would teach them all things and guide
them into all truth , is the primary and only rule of faith and practice , and is the only means by which our salvation is effected . " I admit that I did assert aiuH& # e long done it , that we cannot b ^ Beve what we do not understand * This
the Scripture affirms , Deut . xxix . 29 , ' The secret things belong unto the Lord our God , but the things that are revealed belong unto us and our children for ever , that we may do all the worda of this law ; ' and all that ia not
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Letter from Ellas Hicks to Dr . Atlee . 211 <
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Sir , March YJy 1825 . LETTER from Elias Hicks to A Dr . Atlee , of Philadelphia , dated " Jericho , 9 th Mo . 27 th , 1824 , " has been published in a pamphlet printed
in America , I know not by whom , but I presume neither by the writer nor his correspondent . Without adverting in any manner to the other subjects controverted in this pamphlet , and the reply to it , with your leave ,
I will extract so much of the said Letter as will exhibit the sentiments of Elias Hicks , in his own words , on several important points of doctrine , leaving your readers to judge of them
for themselves , and how far , and in what respects they differ , whether erroneous or not , from the genuine and primitive doctrines of the Society of Friends .
BEREUS . " As to my asserting that I believed the Scriptures were held in too high estimation by the professors of Christianity in general , I readily admit , as 1 have asserted in my public coinmu-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/19/
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