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Excerpt from The Calvinistic and Socinian Systems Examined and Compared, as to Their Moral Tendency: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to the Friends of Vital and Practical Religion
This union, however, has become an occasion of many re?ections. Serious men of the established church have expressed their surprise that some dissen ters could unite With others so opposite in their relig ious principles; and had the union been of a religious nature, it must indeed have been surprising. Others have supposed that the main body of dissenters had either 1m bibed the Socinian system, or were hastili ap proaching towards it. Whether the suggestion of Dr. Horsley, that the genuine Calvinists among our mod ern dissenters are very few, has contributed to this opinion, or whatever be its origin, it is far from being just. Every one who knows the dissenters, knows that the body of them are what is commonly called orthodox. Dr. A I)r1es.tley, who is well known to be sufficiently sanguine in estimating the numbers of his parts - so sanguine that, when speaking of the common people of this country, he reckons nine out of ten of them would prefer a Unitarian toa Trinitarian liturgy; yet. Arknowledges, 111 regard to the dissenters, that Uni tarians are by far the minor1ty.ln Birmingham.
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