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feelings ai > d though I have written S laiuly , I trust not uncharitably . I have iscliarged what I consider to be a duty ; aud in the hope that what is herein codtaiued may be both useful to you aud pjofitable to myself , I am , Rev . Sir , Yours very respectfully , GEO . BUGKLAND . Rev . W . M . Bunting .
To the above letter , Mr . Editor , it is necessary to state , that t received a very brief aud unsatisfactory reply . I therefore addressed Mr . Bunting again , earnestly requesting him to be more explicit in the statement of his sentiments on the subject of our correspondence . The following is a copy of ray second letter : 3 / anc / iester , Rev . Sir , Jan . 12 , 1829 . I have been favoured with your reply of the 5 th inst ., and must confess that f ani somewhat at a loss as to its proper
meaning . I very much regret that you sliould have deemed it expedient to observe so strict a caution as the brevity of your letter indicates . I can assure you , that I had no other object in view in my former communication , than that justice might be done to a body of Christians to which I have the honour and happiness to belong ; and to whatever conclusion you might come , after having given my animadversions * ' a deliberate consideration , " the interests pi truth would not
have materially suffered had you been a Fittle more explicit m the statement of that conclusion . As to the brevity of your answer being to your own mind fully justified by the result of your consideration , f must say , that to my mind it is any thing but that which I had a rjifht to expect , and which the circumstances of the case required .
Allow me then , Rev . Sir , respectfully to solicit an ingenuon * reply to the two foJlowing questions : Do you sincerely believe that " Sodnfans are relectors of the Son of Got" —that they " deny Christ ?* and ought to be classed with the Pharisees and Saddticees of antiquity ? If so , what is the evidence on which your belief fcs grounded ?
Anxiously waiting a reply , in failure of wtiich J sliall deem it my duty to publish our correspondence to the world — with every feeling of personal esteem , and with sipcere well wishes for your ministerial usefulness , I remain , Rev . Sir , Yours most respectfully , GEO . BUCKLAND . Rev . W . M Bunting .
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P . $ . If you should be desirous ^ to obtain a more correct knowledge of the real principles of Unitarian ism , or as it is misnamed Sociuianistn , I . should be very happy to supply you with the neces-&a ; y means .
To this my last letter , Mr . Editor , I received a brief acknowledgment , in which Mr . Bunting neither retracts nor attempts to justify the charges preferred in his sermon , and declines all further controversy ou the subject . My sole reasou for not publishing his letters is from motives of delicacy , as 1 wish not to subject myself in the slightest degree to the
charge of having violated the rules of private correspondence . As Mr . Bunting has net thought proper to offer through a private medium any reply to the questions contained in my last letter , and as he charges me with " serious misapprehensions of his meaning , " ( of which , I must confess , that I am wholly unconscious , ) 1 now most respectfully call
upon him to state , in the pages of the Repository , what those misapprehensions really are . And permit roe , Mr . Editor , in connexion with this subject , most earnestly to request the friends of Unitarian ism , and its ministers especially , to keep a watchful eye on the advocates and journals of repated orthodoxy . It is from the pulpit more particularly that eur sentiments are misrepresented . What is uttered there is generally implicitly
believed , and we have scarcely a chance of counteracti < ug Us influence . But as soon as our opponents perceive that their con * duct does not pass unnoticed , that they are not allowed to misstate our opinions with impunity , they will begin to learn the necessity of being a little more guarded iu their assertions , of expunging certain favourite phrases from their theological vocabulary , and a stricter observance of that com maud will be effected , which
teaches , " Thou shalt not hear false witness against thy neighbour . ' ** GEO . BUCKLAND . Manchestery Feb . 14 th , 1820 .
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True Worshipers at IVareham— Reply to Mr . T . Cooke . To the Editor . Sir , Having been attacked personally , without the slightest provocation , in your pages , I claim the right of reply . An assertion may be made in one line , the refutation of which would occupy a page . Thin remark will , I hope , excuse the length of this article .
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Miscellaneous ( Jvrresporvdence * 345
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/49/
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