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KEPORTOF A PUBLIC MEETING OF THE WORSHIPPERS OF THE ONE TRUE GOP THE FATHEK , AT YAXLEY , HUNTINGDONSHIRE .
On Wednesday , the 9 th instant , pursuant to previous announcement , a public meeting of Christians , who worship the one true God the Father o 7 n ¥ T ^ a 1 F ^) eld ^ tf ™ tl ^^ ^
Chapel , Yaxley . The service was commenced irMhe morning with reading the Holy Scriptures , and prayer , by the Rev Noah Jones , of Northampton ; and the Rev . Edward Tagart preached a highly appropriate sermon , at once eloquent and argumentative , on Jobn xiv . 6 . •* ¦ Jesus said unto him , I am the way , the
truth , and the life , no man cometh unto the Father but by me / A respectable party of friends , who had come from a distance , partook of a plain dinner at the Chequers Inn . In ' the evening a meeting took place at the chapel , when T . E . Fisher , Esq . of St . IvesJ having taken the chair , and Mr . Chappell , the pastor
of the church ,, having engaged in prayer ; the Chairman , in an excellent address , adverted to the object of the meeting , as being to afford the worshippers of the Father only , an opportunity of stating and vindicating from misrepresentation , their peculiar views and mode of worship ; and requested Mr . Chappeirto state their religious pri nc iples .
J \ lr . . Chappell prefaced his statement with an interesting narrative of the circumstances which had'led him to adopt his present sentiments This he felt called on to do , asidie meeting had resulted from that event . Mr . Chappell informed his auditors , that he had been blessed with parents
truly Christian and pious ; -that-reputed orthodoxy , of the Calvinian school was the system of their religious belief . In that system he was trained up . With this system , the books he read , the sermons he heard , and the intercourse he held , were in harmony . But as most have had doubts , he had had / us , even from
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his youth . But these were either overcome by what he then , thought argument , or . repressed by religious apprehensions and mysterious solemnity . An interval of many years then elapsed , filled up with the ordinary changes and avocations of life ;
4 u-i 4 ng-4 he 4 b r-m er ~ _ p arfc-oLj&hicjLJie professed , and the latter he preached , what is termed , moderate Calvinism ; until the rise of the controversy in the Bible Society , on the subject of admitting , as members and officers , those who deny the doctrine of the Trinity . This was the principal circumstance which led him into the
full examination of the question of the Trinity of persons , and those relative points which must stand or fall with it .. After , great ] ai > purj > finquiry and research , and humble fervent prayer to God , the investigation of the subject issued in a strong and irresistible con * viction , and firm and growing persuasion of the truth and excellence of Unitarian Christianity . ^ : - ;
Bfence had arisen the painful trials through which he had passed , for the sake-of truth . Yet he could do no other than obey the voice of duty and of conscience . Some of his friends heard and examined , and ( as they had told him ) fervently prayed over the important affair ; which led to their conviction , that truth was on the
side of . their minister . While some others opposed and turned their backs on him , at which he wondered not , though he could not but feel the loss of friends , who now opposed him , not with * words of truth and soberness , ' , or \ yith manly , not to say Christian , actions . Far from aiming at concealment , he had , both
at -Xaxley ^ nd .. Jf M ^ kor 9 Mgh i declared his views and the grounds on which he had embraced them ; and had now come forward , publicly , that all who were disposed to attend , might hear for themselves . Mr . Chappell then stated the following , as the leading principles of his belief . I , That there is only one God , and
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380 INTELLIGENCE - AND
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1833, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2627/page/28/
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