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    mary which Mrs . Wood * has drawn up , would not have been published , if it had not been considered as orthodox in the Society : it runs as follows : es I believe in one God , Matter and Maker of the universe ; and in one Lor , dj Jesus Christ , our Saviour and Redeemer . I believe in the Holy Ghost , which seems to me btit another definition of the spirit of Christ ; and that Faffeer , ^ on , and Ifely'Ghost , are one . "

    fhe ^ ord Trinity i f aj ; ix ]\ times c ^ refolly ayqlp ! ed hy tf * e QuaJrars , p the JSntptation wppzp fe here given to the Holy Ghost se ^ oa ^ t& reduce it to , a dyahiy of person ? ( the varp p erson . being also avo ^ d , ) . With re $ a ? 4 fa t \) f operatfpo . of tl ^ e Pwf ' & Spirit , our author was subject t ^ w # &y n ^ gi ^ ings ; , which are permitted to appear , that her testimqny ( like th $$ of the incredulous ( ftacip ^ may have double ^ eigbi . " H #$ reyer s I rapy have sometimes feare *} a dejusiqn / ' is her language on ^ his subject ; and , * ' If tl %

    he enthusiasm , it is ? ucb an enthusiasm as I \ pish to feel , " Agap ? ' Many- instances kave occurred of people who have been led astray by what they have thought stipernatural impulses , even to the violation of the Iqws of common sense * I kave no daubt bxtt thai ov ^ ry ( Mvine impulge wifi faa $ to be weighed t and wilt never contradict our best reason and jndg . mentJ >~* -P . 22 &

    Peace be to Ae Unitarians who interpret the Scriptures ty natural reason , when the Quakers are weighing a divine impulse b y their " own bes ^ reason and judgment . " " At meeting tliis ojorniag / ' s ^ ys Mrsf Woo ^ , * ¦ * we weire mwch disturbed by a Priei ^ d not in uiiity as a minister , who would not fce persuaded to keep silence . As his moral character is ^ pod , the circumstance led m& to yeflL ^ ct on tlte danger of being deluded by false appearances , " { fee—P . 68 ,

    On the use of the word " evangelical" we have the following excellent remarks : " Much has been written of late about evangelical preachers and evangelical preaching . The ideas affixed to the term f should suppose rather vague iind uncertain . If evangelical preaching have any precise meanm ^ I should think it must be applied to the promulgating- that doctrine delivered by Christ during his ministry on earth , and recorded by the evangelists . Now , as the * disciple is not above his master , nor the servant above Ms lord / those truths and those instructions which were delivered' by Clirtet himself , should have

    the greatest weight $ and if any thing- in the subsequent writings of the apostjes may seem to our shallow capacities not exactly to coincide , we had better leave them as things ' hard to be understood / than suffer them to infringe upon those precepts which were delivered by the Hp of trutn . " Surely this would cut dee © into > what is commonly called evangelical preaching ! It might almost be * ai 4 to ^ drink the . cup and all ; " and yet the same pen , that wrote it is often employed in effusions little founded on any ^ instructions which Christ himself delivered , " and in lamentations for the want of that mysterious feith which is indeed w hard to be understood . "

    OiiginaJ 5 un > adniitl ^ , t ? i * t in ^ mijd a shape * and wkfo eu (? & softened sliia 4 es , that yye hardly know hoy to cibjsct to it f ^ I believe , if we take a review of ourselves , and candidly appeal to our own feelings , we shall acknowledge that we cannot look back to the period when we could say that we had no evil thoughts , ai ^ d no propensities to evil . If , from the earliest period of remembrance , we were not ^ ree feom corrup-

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    542 EwtraGt * from the Journal q / f Margaret Woods , ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/22/