On this page

• Text (2)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    upoi * 4 > y a certain number of indi * viduals ? ' Wd venerate the Scriptures ; we regard them as the choicest gift of God to man ; but \ vfe hold , that they cannot be rightly understood * , unless we are assifted by a portion of that spirit

    which dictated them to the inspired writers , - Every individual , therefore , is left to the free , unbiassed interpretation of the scriptures , as made known to him by that light , < xr grace , with which he has been favoured , and which will be in

    proportion to his humble reliance upon divine aid . Thus we maintain , that the most learned commentaries are of no avail , and that the * unlettered believer ^ if he come to * the perusal of . the holy writings

    with a pare and upright intention , may obtain a more perfect com . prehension of the will of God , than the most erudite collegian * wjio-relies upon his knowledge of the dead languages . * It must , tbei 5 efor , e , be evident that the Society of , JFrituids have no creed , in the popular sense of the word - y and

    » ' ¦ ¦ *" •!¦ ¦«¦ ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ii ¦ . H ¦ ; 1 * *** For I I have known some of my / friends , vrho profess the same faith with rqq , fai £ bful servants of the Most High God , and fufl of divine knowledge of his lirujtn , as it was inwardfy and immedi-»'" ¦ *¦ . !¦ ¦»¦> ... ¦ , 1 ¦ „ ¦ ' . , * , *** For have known some of my / friends , vrho profess the same faith with rqq , fai £ bful servants of the Most High God , and fufl of divine knowledge of his lirujtn , as it was inwardfy and

    immedi--afely tfevealed to them by the Spirit , from aftrue and living experience , who not <^ y were ignorant of the Greek and He-Tbrew ^ but even ^ spme of them could not even read their own vulgar language , itvh ' o being pressed by their adversaries , / wtith some citations out of the English translation , and finding them to disagree

    withthe manifestation of truth , in their "SM tifattW , kave boldly ajffirmed the Spirit of © od ineVer teid so , arid that it ^ was . fwwftainjjr U wroagrj ; for * they did n 6 t ^ elieye ^ a t ^ arjy of the holy prophets or - « S * « Mfe ^ s 5 S l ^ ikte ^ I ttkl lf Mtim to ^ c erlonrand corrupuoas oiio thh ^ U ^ tk ^ Xo ^ MU ^ Uit

    Untitled Article

    as we maintain ^ that tiaintmiiii ias- * * sistance , < h * jsKill ; ' cam , ^ unfold iifeg triiths . of Revelation ^ as > cecorded iro the scriptur&y thy ^ oiresp&nd ^ nt must be in an' eirrot , whfen he a ^ ir serts r tint a member of our Society

    has been excelled for questioning the doctrine of the Trinity * The Society , as a bodyy never pretended to interpret the scriptuTes , find a * for the-Trinity , they do not a 4 * mit even the teFro , as being no

    were to found in the scriptures * Thy correspondent , N . C . shojuflct be careful of using any expression s especially in print , that may mis * lead the serious enquirer after Christian truth *

    lam tfiy Friend ,

    Untitled Article

    Mr . Flower ' s Strictures on Mr Bel sham e s Accqnnt of ftooert Robinson in his Memoirs of Theophilus * Lindsfy « Barlow ^ JPeb . 4 * X 813 * - Sir ,

    Having in my letter inserted ^ in your last , ( p . 1 f ) vindi ca ted t ^ qimtegr ^ ty pf Mx . Robinsog , I trust , to thp satisfaction of youx readers , from the attack of Mr . Belsham , I proceed to notice some other passages in the work J have quote / d , respecting his . opinions and those of , his

    friends and admirers ,, Jn a * letter ^ a friend , Sin . B . as vye jbayp s ^ rj , a ^ si ^ nied the fqjl ^^ j ^ g ^^ a ^^^ mongst others , jfoi : declining to

    an-^ swer Mr , Lindsay ' s EjcanjAnation of tftj Ft < w >—t ^ g M \ % ftirt ^ m cr iticisms , ^ m * tfir ^ gpfllJi , th ^ if ifbe dQCtrfj ^ je q ^© qrAti - * 5 & RjF ^ & ^ ' » PS - PP&& »** it 9 $ & » ^ ¥ ? s ? : j ^ mm ^ %% 0 M > « m ) wm § ; ^ pw mmrk $ $ *

    Untitled Article

    ft 5 S On Mr . BeUhdm * $ At *(* un ? qfm Rob&isoK

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1813, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2427/page/36/