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disunion among Dissenters to which they tend , or the combination with fanaticism which may be substituted for the present arrangements . Nor does it seem at present likely , that the attempt to break up the 6 C General Body" -assembling at Red Cross Street , will be
successful . A new Body , however , is to be created ; a pure Trinitarian Body . There is to be no Unitarianisiu ; but there may , according to the Constitution of the Society , be every thing : else . Antinomianism or Southcotianism , or any other ism may " claim kindred there and have its claims allowed . " No matter
whence the ranks are recruited in a Crusade so holy . But these worthies shall speak for themselves . * Trinitarian Society . —At a Meeting of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of various denominations , viz . Independents , Baptists , and Calvinistic Methodists , held at Triuity Chapel , Leather-Lane , Holborn , on Monday , August 30 , 1830 , the Rev . Joseph Ivimey in the Chair , the following resolutions were proposed and adopted :
" 1 . That a Society be immediately formed , to be called * The General Union of Trinitarian Protestant Dissenting Ministers , residing in and about the Cities of London and Westminster / " 2 . That the object to be accomplished by the Society shall be , to express a united opinion on every suitable occasion , and especially on subjects connected with the civil or religious liberties of Protestant Dissenters .
" 3 . That all Protestant Dissenting Ministers , who , with their respective places of worship , are protected by the Act of Toleration , and who profess their faith in the distinct personality and offices of the Three-One
Jehovah—Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , as revealed in the Sacred Scriptures , shall be eligible to become Members of this Society , including those Ministers who , at the present Meeting , may give in their names , and any others who , on subsequent application , may be introduced by a Member of the Society , and approved by two-thirds of the Committee . " That the Primary Committee shall consist of two Ministers of each
denomination included in the Society , to be chosen annually , with power to add to their number ; and that the Committee for the present year consist of the Rev . John Bunce , of Chelsea ; the Rev . Richard Davies , of Walworth ; the Rev . Joseph Ivimey , of Eagle Street ; ; the Rev . John Rees , of Crown Street , Soho ;
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the Rev . Thomas Sharp , A . M ., of Woolwich ; and the Rev . Robert Stodhart , of Pell Street . " 5 . That Seven Members , selected from the different denominations
comprised in the Society , and nominated by the Primary Committee , shall be chosen at the Aunual Meeting , as a Managing Committee for one year . The Chairman of this , and also of the Primary Committee , to be chosen in rotation , from each of the denominations .
* 6 . That each Member of the Society shall subscribe Ten Shillings per annum towards constituting a fund ; and in the event of the sums subscribed proving inadequate to defray the necessary expenses , the deficiency shall be supplied by an application for voluntary contributions , from the members , or their respective congregations .
" 7 . That a General Annual Meeting sliall be held in the month of August , to choose a Committee , Treasurer , and Secretary ; and to receive reports , audit accounts , and deliberate on what further steps may best promote the object of the Society . The Meeting to "be opened and closed with prayer ; and all matters
proposed to be determined by the majority of the members present . Other meetings , iu the intermediate period , may be called , by a circular notice from the Secretary , under the direction of the Committee , or at the request of eight Members belonging to each denomination included in the Society .
" 8 . That the Rev . Thomas Smith , 13 , Kirby Street , Hatton Garden , be the Secretary for the present year ; and that the Rev . Joseph Ivimey , 51 , Devonshire Street , Queen Square , be the Treasurer for the same period . " P . S . —Tn order to avoid the possibility of misconception , the Members of the Society now formed are desirous of
disclaiming any intention of reflecting on the orthodoxy of their respected brethren , who still adhere to what is termed the c General Body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers , ' meeting at Redcross Street Library ; but as gentlemen assembling at that place are under the necessity of uniting with Sociniaus and avowed
Unitarians , with whom many Ministers cannot conscientiously unite , upon any grounds , or under any pretence whatever , the name assumed by this Society is merely designed to express that all its Members are exclusively Trinitarian i » their principles , and that no person denying the scriptural doctrine of the Trinity in Unity , or of the Essential Deity
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722 Intelligence . — Trinitarian Alarms and Combinations
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 722, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/66/
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