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heed to yourselves and to your doctrine , and continuing in them / ' you may rea * eonably hope , as the Apostle speaks , to ? l save yourselves , and those who shall hear you . " *
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Oldbury Lecture . At the Annual Lecture at Oldbvry , in Shropshire , Tuesday , September 8 th , the Itev . John Cooper offered the general prayer . A sermon Was preached by the Bey . Samuel Badve , on ^ ' the competency and credibility of th 6 apostolic testimony to the resurrection of Jesus / ' from Acts i 5 . 3 ^; «* This Jesus hath God raised up , whereof we all are witnesses . " The
Rev . John Kentish then delivered a discourse on " the situation and duty of Protestant Dissenters , " from 1 Cor . vii . 22 ; "— he that is called , being free , is Christ ' s servant . "
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Snsseat Unitarian Association . The Sussex Unitarian Association held their Half-yearly Tea Meeting at Ditch - ling , on Wednesday , the 9 th instaut . The Rev . J . Taplin preached a useful and interesting sermon on the occasion . The object of the sermon was to prove , that
the Proem of St . John ' s Gospel was perfectly in accordance with Unitarian sentiments , and that an acquaintance with biblical criticism and the idioms of ancient language was calculated to support his hypothesis . The company took tea together after the service , and spent two
or three hours in discussing the " objects of public worship" The next meeting was appointed to be held at Lewes , on Good Friday , 1830 . C . P . VALENTINE , Secretary to the Association . Lewes . Sept . II , 1829 .
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Tenterden District Unitarian Christian Association . The Annual Meeting of the above Association took place on Wednesday , the 9 th . From the unsettled state of the weather we anticipated some decrease in our numbers at this anniversary , but were agreeably disappointed . The num .-
her of persons assembled was greater than on any former occasion * The chapel service was respectably attended . Mr . Talbot offered up the introductory prayer , and read the Scriptures ; Mr . Blundel , of Northiam , succeeded ; and Mr . Saint , of Cranbrook , delivered an instructive and impressive discourse from Ephes . xxii . 19 , 20 .
Those who Inclined then adjourned to the White Lion Inn , where tea was provided , and a hundred and thirty-six persons of both sexes , being an addition of sixteen above every former meeting , partook of this social repast . Mr . Saint was then called to and ably filled the Chair . Messrs . Holden ,
Talbot , Payne , BJundel , Buckland , and Maylam , severally expressed their sentiments upon different subjects . The usefulness of co-operation by local preachers was earnestly pleaded ; and at eight o'clock the company , which had beeu much increased after tea , separated , with every expression of satisfaction .
There is an almost unavoidable uniformity in these reports ; but it must gratify the friends of free inquiry and evaugelical truth , to find our holy cause thus increasing in influence and power ; that Unitarians scruple not openly and firmly to avow their principles , whilst
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726 Intelligence . —Tenterden District Unitarian Christian Association .
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Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association . The Twenty-first Meeting of the Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association was held at Bridport , on the 9 th of September . The devotional part of the morning service was performed by the Revds . S * Walker and E . Wbitfield . after
Which the Rev . R . Scott , of Portsmouth , discoursed on a part of Paul's address to the Athenians , Acts xvii . 30 , 31 . Xu the evening the Rev . H . Squire , of Wareham , offered up the prayers of the congregation , and the Rev . T . W . Horsfield delivered a sermon on Hebrews v . 12- The audience , on both occasions , was numerous and attentive .
The business of the Association was transacted at the close of the morning service : Thomas Colfox , Esq ., in the Chair . Thauks were presented to the Rev . R . Scott for his very excellent and truly evangelical discourse . " It was
recommended to the congregations forming the Association to request the ladies to undertake the office of collecting the subscriptions . Measures were taken to prepare and print a tract on Dissent . And it was resolved , that the next meeting be holden at Yeovil , on Good Friday ,
1830 . The friends of the Association dined together in public as usual . About sixty gentlemen were present , and the proceedings of the afternoon , gave rise to many pleasing remarks on the favourable aspect of the times . E . W .
* I Tim . iv . 16 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/54/
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