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      To The Editor Of The Jbfontkly Repositor...

      will be most generally : read ? I would not express myself iii terms jdisrespectful to gentlemen , of whose abilities I have a very high opinion ; but it appears to me , that , if they really think that the New Testament does not favour

      the doctrines of the deity or p reexistence of Christ , or of future everlasting punishment , they have not ( in several instances ) translated so as to give their readers the same idea , I must , there - fore repeat it , as the wish of many

      To The Editor Of The Jbfontkly Repositor...

      beside myself , that , in the next edition of a work so valuable and useful as the New Version in general is , the passages in question , and others of a similar nature , may be so rendered as that the unlearned may plainly see what is fin the opinion of Unitarians ) the real doctrine of the New Testament on every subject . lam , sir , Your humble servant , The Country School-Master ,

      Present State Of English Unitarians. 255

      Present State of English Unitarians . 255

      Present State Of English Unitahia*Fs.

      PRESENT STATE OF ENGLISH UNITAHIA * FS .

      [From The First Vol. Of Bigland's View O...

      [ From the First Vol . of Bigland ' s View of the World .

      . " The Unitarians are in many parts of the kingdom [ England ] very numerous . Their principal tenet , from which their name is derived , is the unity of the Godhead , without a trinity of

      persons * This doctrine , which is fundamentally the same as that of Socinus , appears to be rapidly spreading , and its professors not only form numerous and distinct societies , but are intermixed a-

      [From The First Vol. Of Bigland's View O...

      mong almost all the other classes of Dissidents . Amoug the mern * bers of the Established Church , this opinion also appears rapidly to gain ground ; and the doctrine

      of the Trinity , which was formerly considered as too sacred to be opposed , or even discussed , is now openly controverted * and , in some societies / publicly renounced /'

      On The Decline Of Presbyterian Congregat...

      ON THE DECLINE OF PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATIONS .

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      April 6 y 1810 .

      SIR , Your correspondents have given various Opinions , in order to account for the acknowledged decline of Presbyterian congregations . As the subject seems to be still open to discussion , I beg

      ieave to observe , that they appear to have gone too deeply in search ° f causes , when , as is often the case they are to be found more near the stir face . I think that the decline is to be attributed to the improvement * in taste and

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      knowledge , which has taken place during the last hundtfed years among the opulent part of English society , with whom the generality of men have not , by ^ ny means , kepf pace . And this has

      operated on the church of England , with as much force as on the Presbyterians , as far as the cause has prevailed in that com * munity , and as far as it has not been controlled by the powerful influence of a wealthy establishment . It is undeniable , that the mi-

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/19/