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      of opinion among them ? In what period of their history did these sects first arise : and which of them most ___ ' _ _ _ ' ... «

      resembled their forefathers , and were the most correct interpreters of their sacred writings on this point ? Perhaps some of your learned Correspondents will be kind enough ta

      communicate their thoughts on this subject . By so doing they will confer a favour on many , probably , as well as myself ,, who have felt the difficulties 1 have now stated . X .

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      866 State ofReliffion at Hereford .

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      Hereford , Sir ,- May II , 1819 . IT has been said , that in the Church of England we have Calvinistic Articles , a Popish Liturgy , and an

      Arminian Clergy . This sayiug was , I believe , more strictly applicable to our Establishment thirty or forty years ago than it is at the present day , owing to the exertions of a society , commonly known by the title of

      Evangelical , to produce a closer correspondence betwixt the creed of the clergy and the articles to which they subscribe * Till within these very few years , however , no movement had been made by this society in the city of Hereford , and till the introduction

      here of the Rev . H . Gipps , the saying above referred to was as applicable to this town , as it had formerly been to the kingdom at large . This state of things had , however , produced a good deal of supineness and indifference upon religious topics , both

      amongst the clergy arid laity . Mr . Gipps has , by his preaching , roused both into considerable activity , exciting much opposition on the part of the former , and making a great number of converts amongst the latter .

      very recently a controversy has arisen betwixt the two parties on the nature of baptism , and pamphlets have been published on both sides , upon the subject of regeneration . Under all these circumstances , therefore , I

      cannot but regard the present as a crisis peculiarly favourable to the introduction of rational notions of religion , and bpg iteave to call the attention of the Unitarian Fund to this untried ground , thinking it well worthy of a . visit from one of their missionaries , for whose valuable labours Calvinism seems to be preparing a prospect of success in

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      various places , which must be truly cheering to every friend to the diffusion of pure Christianity . BEREUS .

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      Sir , WITH respect to the union of the Burghers and Antiburgbers , about which inquiry was made in the Repository , [ p , ISO , ] as far as I . can learn , the only difference between them was , that the Burghers left their members free , either to take or not

      the oath required of all burgesses in Scotland , € i to support the constitution in church and state as by law established , " while the Antiburghers expelled from their communion all who took that oath . Both are governed by Presbyteries and Synods , and subscribe the Confession of Faith

      of the Church of Scotland ; so though they may easily unite together , yet , I trust , the English Dissenters , even the Calvinists , understand the principles of Dissent too well , and are too

      independent , ever to submit to any human confession of faith , or to the government of Presbyteries . The best account of the Burghers and Antiburgers is to be found in the Encyclopaedia Britannica , article Seceders . T / C . H .

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      Sir , London , May 4 , 181 0 * BEG leave to inform your re-I spectable Correspondent Mr . B . Flower , and those who have read hie strictures in the Repository for March last , [ p . T © 2 , ] that the true reason why the people called Quakers have not disowned or even censured Mr .

      Walker for any part of his principles or sentiments is , that Mr . Walker is not a member of that Society 5 nor has he ever been at any period of his life . Permit me to add , that 1 cannot believe the Society of Friends will ever flourish , while their intellectual

      and religious darkness is so very great , as to prevent them from seeing the extreme impropriety of disowning , and ceasing to have Church-fell © wship with , such sincere , such amiable-, such exemplary Christians as Hannah Barnard , Thomas Foster and William Rath bone * B . Y .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/22/