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    and continually imposed for articles of Christian faith . " T . P . concludes his letter to the Editor of the Christian Observer bysay ing * , " $° strong is my desire to detach the Quakers from that identity with the Unitarians , under which some

    mistaken minds regard them , that I may perhaps feel rather gratified than hurt at any consequences that may result from the general diffusion of this knowledge , that their tenets are at an irreconcileable variance . T . P . " " T The Editors , in a courteous P . S ., say T . P . will find a letter in our Vol .

    for 1819 , p . 582 , signed Samuel Fennel , containing a similar complaint against the Monthly Repository , and a defence of the Society of Friends from the charge of Socinianism .- " In this letter S . F . does , indeed ,

    repeat his totally groundless charge against you . [ XIV . 400 . ] As to his defence of Friends , he has indeed shewn , that the Quakers had not wholly discarded the term Trinity .

    Directly after his quotation , abruptly ending with an " &c . / ' Penn adds , " But they are very tender of quitting Scripture terms and phrases for Schoolmen ' s , such as distinct and

    separate persons , and subsistences , &c . are , from whence people are apt to entertain gross ideas and notions of the Father , Son and Holy Ghost /' I would willingly remove T . P . ' s

    painful but groundless apprehension , that it is a favourite design with the Unitarians to identify " their tenets " with those of the Quakers , farther than they actually approximate . They can have no motive to do this . He

    does not seem to be aware , that from the time of Sabellius , those who " say nothing of three hypostases [ or

    persons ] but keep to one , " in expressing their belief in ( iod , have always been considered by the reputedly orthodox , as nearly allied to the Unitarians , notwithstanding their occasional use , like the Quakers , of obscure , ambiguous or semi-orthodox language .

    He has , I own , completely absolved himself from the imputation , but before he again asserts " that the Quakers have precisely the same view of thl high doctrine" as himself , I recommend him to make farther inquiry , ^ t he should mistakenly represent hem as forsaking generally or coli ^ Uvel y , the authentic testimony of

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    Yates ' s " Sequel ' to his " Vindication of Unitarianism . ' 151

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    scriptural revelation on this point of primary importance , and teaching , in its stead , for doctrine , the inventions of men . THOMAS FOSTER .

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    Sir , HAVE several times endeavoured I to procure from the booksellers , Yates ' s " Sequel" to his " Vindication of Unitarianism : " but the answer is uniformly the same—out of print . Now , Sir , as the theological critic in the British Quarterly Review ,

    with a meanness of dissimulation which , I suppose , he would excuse by the convenient subterfuge of inherent moral incapacity , has sunk upon his readers the existence of this tract , although incidentally he betrays his knowledge of it , and as the great advocate of tritheism and vicarious

    righteousness himself , Dr . Wardlaw continues with unabashed ostentation to re-advertise in the Newspapers his " Unitarianism incapable of Vindication , " may I ask why the " Sequel " is not reprinted ? If the able author

    himself be unwilling to risk the expense , ( though I should have thought the sale of the first edition a guarantee for the success of the undertaking , ) why is not this tract , which so calmly and rationally exposes the hollow blustering pretensions of the orthodox school , reprinted and liberally re-advertised at the expense of the society ?

    Let me take this opportunity of suggesting also the expediency of reprinting in a separate tract , and at a cheap rate , the excellent and learned Dr . Gardner ' s " Posthumous

    Discourses on the i rinity , " which appear to state the respective grounds of the Trinitarian , Ariau arid Unitarian doctrine , with a plainness ,

    comprehension and acumen , calculated to make a strong , popular impression , and , at the same time , to remove much of the prejudice existing against the simplicity of the ancient faith in mindspre-oecupied by college theology ; and to awaken serious doubts whether

    * ' the things which they have learned " be in reality " sound doctrine . " This little publication is further needed as a set-off * against the affectedly impartial , but really dogmatic and bigoted , not to say insidious , statement ol Dean Tucker ; entitled a " Hrief and Dispassionate View of the Diflimltirs

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1822, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2510/page/23/