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sitoiy for August , " on the Bible Con ^ troversy in Ireland , " " Infallibility not possible , Error pot culpable ; " has suggested the following extracts ftfo ^ oi t ; wo of the greatest patrons of religious freedom that ever wrote : ' "If I be desirous to know the truth , and diligent in seeking it , and yet through human infirmity fall into error , that error cannot be damnable . "Chillingworth .
" He that makes use of the light and faculties God has given him , and seeks sincerely to discover truth hy those helps and abilities he has , may have this satisfaction in doing his duty as a rational creature , that though he should miss truth , HE WILL NOT MISS THE REWARD OF IT . '^ -LOCKE , Let me by way of contrast to those noble principles annex the following extracts :
" The misunderstanding of God's word on the fundamental truths of the Christian system , cannot afford any security to error , but will expose it to the WRATH OF THE GRRAT ETERNAL . " " I believe that the man who holds not the divinity of Christ , is in fatal error ; I believe that if he continue under its influence , he will perish /'—Mr . Pope : Discussion .
" He therefore that , will be saved , must thus think , " &c . —Athanasian Creed . " REV .
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The Deputies . To the Editor . Sir , Avgwst 5 , 1828 . The letter relating to the Deputies , inserted in this month ' s Repository , signed A Dissenter , contains so much matter , and , as it appears to me , requiring explanation , that I do hope a sense of justice , and what is due to the cause of liberty ,
will induce you to insert the following observations . The general outline of the constitution ( or rather the want of a constitution ) of the society of Deputies appears correct , and the inutility the <* Dissenter" ascribeB to the society seenis to be equally true . The essential difference t have with the " Dissenter , " arisen from his seeming to suppose that
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the correction of abuses and of persecif tion rested with the society of Deputies , while it is notorious that the Protestant Society * formed for the purpose of overthrowing Lord Sid mouth ' s Bill , ( which its force in a peculiar manner so happily effected ) has been the Society chiefly engaged in redressing the wrongs in *
flicted upon conscientious Dissenters , and that where the Deputies have had one case of this description submitted to them , the Protestant Society have had twenty ; indeed , I believe , such was the apathy of the Society of Deputies , that only one case of real-persecution has been submitted to them in a course of
twelve months , not arising from persecution being dormant , but from the Protestant Society pursuing more direct means of redress ; and as to the amount of funds , the Deputies have had more than sufficient for the real duties they have discharged . With respect to the removal of the Corporation and Test
Acts , and substituting a less objectionable test and oath , neither the spirited agency , nor the funds of the Deputies effected that : the object , such as it is , has been attained by a union and deputation from five societies , who were all to contribute to the expense ; but in consideration of three of the bodies not being
equal to such a contribution , the Protestant Society agreed to bear one-third , and the Deputies two-thirds ; and as the whole expense is estimated at three thousand pounds , the Protestant Society will pay one thousand , the Deputies two thousand , ( and upon the implied condition that no collection was to be made
by the congregations of Dissenters to supply the deficiency , )—the Deputies will b $ left with near seven thousand , and the Protestant Society with three . Any renovation or stimulus to the general objects of both Societies I shall rejoice in promoting . I am free from any sectarian feeling ; liberty , the right of
believing or disbelieving , is what to us , as men and as Christians , should be the object of pursuit—unconnected with religious qualifications of any description —civil qualifications being the alone test for civil offices . ^ 4 Berean , and therefore in principle a Friend to Liberty .
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$ 34 Occasional Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 634, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/50/
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