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back relative to Dr . Williams ' s Library , Red-Cross Street . Should either of these be served by this intimation , it will affoxd an inexpressible pleasure to , Sir , yours , ALLI .
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American Quakers * To the Editor . Sir , It is known to those who interest themselves in religious affairs , that there has some time since arisen in America a schism among the people called Quakers . The leader of the schismatics is one Hicks , a man allowed by tliose who
differ from him in religious faith to be venerable for his talents and his virtues . The great point in this schism is the unity of the Godhead , the followers of Hicks asserting the belief in a Supreme Being , one aud indivisible , and consequently denying the doctrine of Jesus being coeval with the Father , or God m
the flesh * and with it the doctrine of his death on the cross being the propitiation of our sins , whilst the rest of the Society , with whom , in other matters , the Schismatics agree , profess ( though without adopting the term ) the doctrine of the Trinity , and , as a necessary accompaniment , the incarnation of the second person in the Godhead .
1 hough this difference of religious faith in a people , in all other respects the same , having the same peculiarity of speech , dress , and demeanour , the same rules of religious discipline , &c , &c , has been known to have existed some years , it Is not until now that public notice has been taken of the subject , and that an open and authomed disclaimer has been made of them as members of tie Society of Friends .
I beg leave here to introduce a quotation from Penn : "lam the Lord , and tliere is none else ; there is no other God besides me . Jehovah shall be one , and his name one , which , with a cloud of other testimonies that might be urged , " says he , " demonstrate , that in the days of the first covenant and prophets but one was the holy God , and God but
that holy one , " Again says he , " Jesus said , Why callest thou me good ? There i » none good butoue , that is God . There be gods many , but unto us there is but one God the Father , of whom are all things ; from all of which , * ' says he , " I lay down this one assertion , that the testimonies of scripture , both under the law and since the gospel dispensation ,
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declare one to be God , mid God to be one , " &ei Can any thing be more full , more comprehensive , wore explicit than this ? Is there any Unitarian who , in his confession of faith , could use more unequivocal language tTian William Penn ? Is there any one among the followers ' of Hicks who , in tlie ardour of his advocacy of the indivisibility of the Godhead , could
say more ? Again , regarding the doctrine of satisfaction , Penn says , in au article in the same work , entitled * ' The Vulgar Doctrine of Satisfaction being dependent on the Second Person in the Trinity , refuted rf * ^^ ? ^_ L a , T ^ — * 9 9 ^ C "tk Jl * — - ^ jJ ^ . * n 4 * V » rt . «^ » " » 1 __ from ht / It divides the uni
_ RigReason' " - ty of the Godhead by two distinct acts of being offended and not offended ; of condemning justice and redeeming mercy ; of requiring a satisfaction and then making it : because , if Christ pays the debt as God , then the Father and the Spirit being God , they also pay the debt . Since God is to be satisfied , and that Christ is God , he consequently is to be satisfied ,
and who shall satisfy his infinite justice > But if Christ has satisfied God the Father , Christ being also God , 'twill follow then that he has satisfied himself . But since God the Father was once to be satisfied , and that it is impossible' he should do it himself , nor yet the Son or Spirit , because the same God , it naturaly follows that the debt remains unpaid , and these satisfaction is ts are still at a loss /* &c , &c .
I leave to others to shew , if they can ^ the accordance of these sentiments of Penn with those of the Friends of the present day , as exhibited in the sort of confession of faith in the Yearly-Meeting Epistle of the past year , and to which t have already referred . For my part I conceive I see the greatest possible discrepancy ; I conceive that any one who
should take up the confession of faith made by the Yearly Meeting , and the sentiments of Penh in his " Sandy Foundation Shaken / ' would at once declare that they were opposed to each other as completely on the point at issue as confessions of faith possibly cotild be ; and being so , the followers of Hicks have at least the sanction of a great name in
their cause . The doctrine of Jesus being God , the creator of the universe , together with the doctrines of imputed righteousness and plenary satisfaction , appear to my mind so exceedingly irrational , that the wonder is , not that a large numl ) cr of the Quakers of America should renounce
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472 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 472, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/40/
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