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the priests , in the true spirit of ministers of corruption , incited to persecution . The storm came and fell . Expatriation was denounced on thousands . Some apostatized , a few vacillated , the majority bore the loss of all things , and sought a refuge in a strange land ; and there , in Transylvania , a foster mother more kind than their own parent , do the descendants of these confessors still dwell as a body , i-eeo . gnk © d 4 > y ~ the-eiv ^
the great and good men to whom we have now referred , though widely felt , has not been generally acknowledged . It would not be easy to estimate its extent . To say they are voluminous would be no very high commendation , except we added that even those who differ most widely from the views they give , cannot deny the knowledge of scripture which they display , the variety of topic on which they treat , the power of mind , the integrity of will , the singleness of purpose , the extent and multifariousness of
knowledge , and the ardent devotedness of piety which they exhibit . To suppose that they had no influence in bringing on the great cn Mge of sentiment in this . country would be absurd , especially when it is known that they have tended to liberalize the general tone of theology throughout Europe , and have afforded material assistance to persons who are thought to differ most widely from Unitarians , —yea , to some who have disparaged the very source pOll £ ! F , - . enlighte ^ menj :, and Jhechief origin of their own influence . ' _
It is not necessary to pass distinctly in review each reign from that of Elizabeth to the third George ; but it will suffice to say , that no one is in its history devoid of Unitarian worthies . Yes and to the disgrace of each we must add , no one is exempt from the pains and penalties which they were made to suffer . There is a long list of venerable names who bore their testimony in the
midst of trials , privations , and death , which , if the opportunity served as does the will , we should rejoice to honour with the humble tribute of our praise . Passing by many , as the limits of the subject require , many who , not on a foreign but on English soil , sufferjed for the truth far worse things than any that came after them , we arrive at the period which may be termed the dawn of the second reformation- —the epoch , we mean , of the revival of Arianism—
when he flourished and bore his testimony m privation , who , by the integrity of his character , associated the epithet honest' permanently with his own name—and he who , from the activity , power , depth * ajijd pjirjty _ o £ bis . ^ of the most celebrated men of any age a reasoning machine / and who would have sat on the episcopal bench but that he was too honest—and he who vindicated to himself the designation of the prince of philosophers / and yet was but a child in his own estimation—who stood as much above the men of his day in physical as did Jesus Christ in spiritual knowledge , and who still
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THE TRUTH TELLER ., 333
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1833, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2625/page/13/
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