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    should have taught them better things . On the contrary , to some steps of a strong party cast I objected in to to , and stood alone against my employers . How far my services in behalf of the church were accepted by my superiors may be judged of by the circumstance of an offer made liic by a mitred head , to

    whom I appealed not long since respecting my conduct before I left the Orthodox Magazine * I mean a nomination to a curacy , &c . preparatory to an ordination in the church . This however was not what I sought for in the correspondence which produced it . Besides , it came too late ; nvy sentiments In respect to those opinions which a man entertains and pro- >

    mulgates or the Deity were then , and were long before considerably altered . A subscription to the creed of Athanasius in particular , to me opposes an eternal bar to an active admission into that church which requires it . It might have suited the times of ignorance ,, but alter attending to so much discussion upon that confession , and much indeed of that in your own Magazine , it may now be said , even upon this occasion , € i the times of this ignorance God winked at , but now

    commandeth all men every where to repent /* There are , beyond a doubt , many good men who do not examine the dogmas of the Trinitarian doctrine ^ but those who do examine and yet continue in the communion of that church must , as to the state of their mind , be truly pitiable . Perhaps " the tables of many are made a snare to them . " But how much better is

    intellectual freedom ? How much superior to any other consideration is that of proclaiming the Deity as he is ; as he shines most unclouded through his glorious and unchangeable attri * butes ? What if the number of advocates for this religion are few , compared with those who too weak to resist , are carried by the current of popular opinion ? Is not the case exactly similar to that of Moses called out of Egypt , who thought it better even to suffer affliction with the people of God than to

    enjoy the p leasures of sin for a season ? Relative to my own determination , I roust confess J owe it to the lights I have received since the year 1800 , from such writers as Priestley , Evarison , and other Unitarians , to whose works I was previously a stranger , and particularly to the views they entertain of the approaching period of universal peace and liberty , so long foreseen by those who read and understand the prophetical books of the Old and New Testament .

    The example alsp of the great Sir Isaac Newton , who emp loyed his profound talents in investigating the book of the Kevelation , I trust has not been lost . These have at least galled . forth my attempts to improve upon them , within these

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    70 Orthodox Ckurchmari * $ Magazine .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/14/