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    which is £ t r ^ t should be di ^ r ^ rb ^ d ^ an ^ . ' tttt ^ jtheite is to &e nothing r < e 1 iting to disputes or eontrove |* sies admitted , except it be their own oracular decision on

    fee opinions of those * who € tre not in the connexion . " Let me reason with these great men of ' 4 SW , or , as the Venetians are said to style their priests ,

    Goi * s gentlemen , on their own principles and professed plan of conduct . I would submissively enquire whether an exclusion from the Methodist Society , under the circumstances stated at Flush *

    ing * he not unprecedented and repugnant to the fundamental regulations on which the Society taken m the aggregate was originally formed ? Do not what are called Ct The

    Rules of the Society , " published usually in a small pamphlet , and which were drawn up by Messrs . J . and C . Wesley seventy years ago , and supposed to be consented to by every member on admisr Sion , contain the standing orders ? law in

    Where is t ^ iere a ongitae ) code , that without the grossest chicanery cap bear on the case of the people at Flushing ? There is no belief in any speculative article of fqtoh required , nor expulslon tlgre ^ L tened to a man in tb e * e

    matters thinking for himself . Tbe only condition , as it is positively expressed , of admission into the society is , ' * having n desire tp flee frQin the wr&tji to come , ' ao 4 the only condition of contin t ^ ng in the society is , tb

    ^ manifesaing successively ^ t desire by Refraining from the imj ^ or ^ lities tjbs ^ t are specifieid in ^ e ^ e ru \ e $ f ^ nd being found in c ^ rt ^ iia devotional exercises there - i n eiyain ^ d / ' J $ p t \ ot w nd « r ^ t » nd tU # ^ i * #¥ ^ ing heretics were

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    discarded for any alleged immoralities , but solely on account of their having embraced t | be tenets of Unitarianisrn . It \ t wei"P , so > and this I must presunje ^ they were excluded without any groundaf existing in the original institute of Methodism . I know not

    what can be said to rebut this conclusion by the advocates of intolerance , except it be that these luckless wights of Unitarians do not come under the predicament

    on which persons are admitted and continued in the society , since they manifest by the errors which they have embraced that they no longer ** have a desire to flee froro the wrath to come . "

    They , however , who avow thi $ sentiment never derived it from the luminaries of Methodism , and must have very lately received it from some other sources . The

    Rev . J # Wesley , himself , has asserted in his writings , not only that an anti-trinitarian may manifest a desire of escaping future misery , but that he may be a truly good man . In one of the

    numbers of the Armiman Magazine , published a few years before his death , he inserted an extract of the memoir of the life of that emi * n . ent Unitarian , Thomas Firm in . In introducing this extract he

    observed that he h&d formerly been inclined to think that a person who was unsound with respect to the doctrine of the Trinity could not be a converted or good man . But that now he thought differ , enily ,- since the subject of the

    memoir vtas undoubtedly a pious man , though erroneous in tbe doctrine of the Trinity , and that there was no arguing against facts I will answer for this being the sentiment contained in the magazine , if I hove aot given the identical

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    On the Methodist Excommunication at Flushing . 3 S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/35/