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the gates of heli have ever prevailed against this Church , that is , that the pastors and people who compose it have ever , at any period , even for a
single hour , professed error 1 You , therefore , cannot enter into a disputation which would seem to imply that the opposite of what is here stated is even remotely possible !
Lastly , you should not contend , as it is proposed , with men , over whom a triumph could be productive of n 6 permanent advantage ; as individuals they may be learned and respectable , but as religionists they are deservingonly of your unmixed pity . They
profess to be seeking for truth—this can only be found in the Catholic Church ; and the faith that believes iu it , as there propounded , is a gift of God—to be obtained , not by disputation , but by humility , alms-deeds and prayer . The judgment of man is too slow , and too unsettled—the objects
of its investigation are too mysterious and too far removed—it may reason interminably and dispute , but it can never determine ; authority alone can decide . " By the sun alone of the Church , " as Jerome observes , " all the streams or rivulets of error can be
dried up . " To ascertain the existence of this Church—for the infidel , signs and tongues may be necessary ; for a Christian the grace of his baptism , and the creed which he has learned at his mother ' s breast , is quite sufficient : and to such at least as are
born and educated in these countries , it must be quite obvious , if they be humble , pious , dispassionate , and not maddened with , enthusiasm , that no sect or denomination of Christians existing in it ( the Catholics alone excepted ) have not separated themselves
from the one Holy Catholic and Apos ^ tolic Church at a certain time , and for causes but too well ascertained ; and as to the consequences of such a separation , it is not mine , whilst addressing you , to state them , or to give expression to that deep affliction which the consideration of them excites
within me . I once was moved by such reflections , and by the love I bear to my brethren who are in error , ( for whom like the Apostle , I would willingly , for a time , be even an Anathema , or separated from Christ , ) to suggest , through an eminent individual , not to a society , not to ladies and gen-
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tlemen , . but to one of the highest states in the realm * a proposal for seeking to bind up that which has been broken ; to heal that which is infirm , and to bring back that which has strayed ; but the spirit which was
once sent to seduce Achab , has been permitted to seduce many in this empire , and the term of his seduction has not yet expired ; perhaps it will yet
terminate ; if it should , the means of conciliation and peace are at hand ; if not , it is our duty to adore the counsels of that God , whose judgments are inscrutable , and whose ways cannot be investigated .
Praying the Almighty God , Rev . Brethren , that he may keep our minds and hearts united in his love , and in the love of one another , I remain your truly affectionate and humble servant in Jesus Christ . t J . DOYLE . Given at Edenderry , on my Visitation , this 28 th day of August , 1825 .
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Stochton-m- Tees , Sir , Sept . 8 , 1825 , IT gives me and my friends in this place great pleasure to learn , from the last number of the Repository , that an Unitarian interest is on the
eve of being established in a neigbouring town . There are but two Unitarian congregations in the county of Durham , one at Stockton , and the other at Sunderland , both of which are small . The members of the
former ( and especially one who is now no more , but whose praise is , and will long remain , in the church in which he was a very distinguished ornament ) have often regretted that circumstances have hitherto been unfavourable to the introduction of Unitarianism into other towns in the
county . We are a little surprised that your Durham correspondent , and his Unitarian friends , after long regretting that some place has not hitherto been appropriated to Unitarian worship , should not have sought the co-operation of the Unitarians at Stockton , or
at least of that very judicious advocate of our cause , the Rev . Mr . Turner , of Newcastle . If Philo-Unitas is earnestly desirous of seeing his wishes accomplished , I beg to oflfer my humble services , and to assure him , that
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544 Proposed Unitarian Chapel at Durham .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 544, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/30/
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