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    shameful , sorrowful matter is it , that the ministers of the established religion in Scotland and England cannot be allowed to preach , till they have subscribed their belief of an antiChristian , adulterated system of Christianity . Surely such antichristian establishments

    must have a fall some time . I am , though unknown to you , * Your sincere friend and «' * obedt . servt . JNO . MORT . *"

    < c P . S . If at any time , you should have a thought of honouring me with a line , my address is at Chowbent , near Wigan , Laneashire * ' '

    " Mr . Wm , Christie , jun . at Mpntrose / 1 The Clergyman of the church of England before-mentioned , wrote me no less than four letters from the year 1784 to 1788 : the two first of these letters I shall here

    transcribe , with my reply to the second ; as they present the picture of a truly pious and humble mind , anxious , impartial , and sincere in its inquiries after truth , and willing to receive it from whatever

    hand it might come ; and my answer will show the state of my mind at that time , and that I have not been precipitate in deciding upon the question concerning the pre « existence of Christ .

    • Mr . Mort died two years after the date of this letter * A Short view of his Life , Sentiments , and Character , with a Sermon Preached on the Occasion of his Death , * * two Family Prayers' composed hy him , and the * Contrast / mentioned in his letter to me , were published by Mr . H . Toulmin , then" a dissenting

    minister dt Chowbent , or Atherton , at present a judge in Tennessee . A character of him was publishedin the * Gentleman ' s Magazine for February , 1788 ; with some elegant lines which Mrs . Barbanld had sixteen years before composed 111 his praise .

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    cc I beg leave , Sir , to present you my sincere thanks for the great pleasure and satisfaction I hav $ received from the perusal of your

    excellent Discourses , and cannot forbear taking the liberty to add that they do you singular credit as an able and judicious patron of the doctrine yoti have so candidl y maintained . To this doctrine of

    the divine unity , which I hope is daily gaining ground , I long ago gave my hearty assent , and was glad to find in my late worthy neighbour and friend Mr . Lindsey * s history of it , that it had found a

    kind of establishment under your immediate patronage at Montrose . Please to accept my sincere and ardent wishes for the prosperity of your congregation , and the sue * cess of tnat doctrine which you profess .

    <* Though you have not any where in your discourses , as far as I can recollect , given your opinion directly and explicitly of the existence of Jesus Christ , yet I conclude that you do not in that

    point coincide with Mr . Lindsey . In my humble opinion indeed , his opinion upon this subject is liable to insuperable objections , and his explication of the beginning of St .

    John ' s gospel , has , I think , been fully refuted by a friend and neighbour of mine in apamphjet entitled Objections to Mr . Lindsey ' s

    interpretation of the first fourteen verses of St . Jotiu ' s Gospel—printed for Johnson , London , and Charnley , Newcastle . The expression ev &p % f

    at the beginning of this gospel ; though coinciding exactly with the Septuagint version of the beginning of Genesis , wil ) 5 I allow , fairly admit of a different and more pro .

    bable interpretation than the Trinitarians give it ; yet there are many other passages in the N « T . which

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    l 32 Account of Mr . William Christie .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/4/