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    INTELLIGENCE.

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    Unttanantsm in America . A Letter to the Rev . Mr . Grvndy . [ Concluded from p . 199 . ] I fear , that I have already wearied you , but , my dear Sir , you must permit me to say , that your account of the progress of Unitarianistii in our Northern and

    Southern States is altogether incorrect . In our own neighbourhood , with the exception of those I have mentioned , and , perhaps , one clergyman about forty miles from Boston , I know of no one , whom you could call an

    Unitarian . Iti the western parts of Massachusetts they are almost altoge - ther Calvinists , or , as they term themselves , Hopkinsian Calvinists ^ who carry their system to great extremes , and are dissatisfied with every thing that falls beldw their standard . This is a sect , formed

    chiefly upon the system of the celebrated Dr . Edwards , and they are named from Pr . Hopkins , once a minister of Newport , who first published the system . They compose a numerous class of Christians in Rhode Island , New Hampshire and Vermont , and are thought by many to be

    increasing . > As for Connecticut , nothing else but Calvinism , in a greater or less degree , can flourish there * You may see an example of this in a pamphlet , which Mr ;

    was also kind enough to lend me , respecting the dismission of an able , pious and intelligent minister , ( Mr . Abbot ) from his people , on account of some differences of opinions The intolerant spirit , that prevails in this ; as well as in seme other parts of New England ,

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    is greatly lamented'by very many serious , intelligent and rational Christians among us , who are at the same time no less opposed to other extremes of Unitarianism . I really cannot imagine , what your friend could mean by his Convention of Massachusetts and

    Connecticut ministers , in which on a single day , one hundred minis ters declared themselves converts to the new doctrine" I !! As you candidly acknowledge the doctrine to be new , 30 , I am sure , * must have been the convention that

    adopted it . The ministers of Connecticut , as far as I know , never meet in Convention with those of Massachusetts * . They are members of a different state ; the

    constitution of their churches very different ; - —that of Connecticut , almost as rigidly Presbyterian as the Kirk of Scotland , ^ nd that of Massachusetts , Independent If ever such * a convention took place , it could only have been with the Calvinists of Connecticut f

    and their A 6 ^ ' le ^ s Calv ^ nistie neighbours of jftie w ^ at ^ rn p ^ rts of our state * Bat if such a body as this , whok before , would hardly

    acknowledge that man to be a Christian , who did not fully unite in all their articles of faith , could in one day , become converts to Unitarianism , then surely the age of miracles has not ' ceased : anew

    day of Pentecost has been granted us , and the ** new doctrine , " after tfo& est ^ Wis ^ i ^ e ^ t ^ f Chtrt ^ tianity , for more 1 than ;; eighteen hundred ye ^ ra , fcafr 0 y a eitdden c < mvtr $ idn > a ^ iti M ^ siaS '^^ T ^ ik * ^' ' " '" at i $ w . . ff ^ ff fl , riPFflBITOcf h - ,:., ' ,.. * TUi $ con t # ati < m of the Comiccticut

    Intelligence.

    INTELLIGENCE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/56/