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    horrid riot at Birmingham , I wr < 3 te and published An Essay oh Ecclesiastical Establishments in Religion : showing their hurtful Tendency ; and that they cannot be defended , either on Principles of Reason or Scripture . To which are annexed , Tv / o Discourses on Rev . xiv . In the following year I took my farewell of the Society of Unitarian Christians at Montrose , in a Discourse delivered November 18 , 1792 , but not published till Spring 179 £ ; when I removed from the neighbourhood of Montrose to

    Glasgow * , At this period , having carried on my inquiries as far as I thought it possible I could 4 q , and being then in the forty-fourth year of my age and arrived at ^ IJpinaturity of judgement , I roa 4 e a positive decision on the . 8 i | $ || ct of the Pjre-exittence of

    € & #$ & $ —rejecting it as a notiqm iai | i ^ pdnsistent with the general te ^ M ^ of Scripture or the nature offiflHigs , unwarranted by the Ajp «| es ' creed , and the purest rei&nfes and most authentic accorijDiar of ecclesiastical antiquity . jHpes nqt follow , though I j&a ^ Bong in coming to a con-^ ftifl ^ fcon this subject , that others shoufSle so too ; or that there * MpHjiHSiJSPit dubiety or difficulty hav

    in t ^ jH&ftstion . I e sometimes ^^ pfca ameabl e timidity and hesitation in my tamper , and I believ ^ ijiat having received the first impressions ot Unitarianism when vfcry young , frojn Dr . Clark

    and other eminent SemlrArian or Arian writers , these early impressions stuck long upon myj&ind and made the decision a itiore difficult task to me th ^ n otherwise it » would have been . I passed in a course of years through all

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    different stages of high Arianism , proper Arianism , low Arian - ism , and a state of Suspense ^ till at last I found rest for my soul inv the scheme of the proper humanity of our Lord ; in which last system I can truly say , that It have had more peace of mind joy , and comfort in religion than I ever had before I adopted it ;' 'and therefore I have no reason

    to repent of my determination . — J 3 tlt leaving all these past events and considerations , I come now to speak upon the subject of the present Dissertations .

    My previous studies having qualified me for executing a work of this kind , I composed these Dissertations at leisure hours in Spring , Summer , and Autumn , 1794-,. in the city of Glasgow , and delivered each of them when

    composed , the same year , to the members of the Society of Unitarian Christians in that city , and others who attended at their place of worship . I had been previously invited to Glasgow with the unanimous consent of the

    Unitarian congregation there , and the approbation of their foriper preacher , the Rev , Bartholpmew * Spencer , who wrote me a very kind letter on the subject ,

    and removed soon after my arrival to attend the medical college in Edinburgh , and from thence to Birmingham , where he proposed to practise as a physicianf .

    " * Mr . Christie mistakes the name of this genttemaii , now residing and pursuing the medical profession at Bristol , which is not Bartholomew , but Benjamin * Ei * .

    f Mr . Speocer had fpnnerly been a Baptist minSRer in England , and had given up his congregation in consequence of having embraced Unitarian principles H £ came to Edinburgh and commenced the study of medicine . I first saw bm

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    194 * Account of Mr * WiUiam Christie *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/2/