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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, James Peirce (search)
h met in May 1753, whether any candidates should be recommended who refuse to declare their faith in the deity of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,—it was debated whether, the question should be put, and by the majority carried in the negative. By that time, the celebrated Micaiah Towgood, who then occupied the pulpit from which Mr. Peirce had been ejected, was at least as far from orthodoxy as his predecessor had been; and now, under the successive ministries of Towgood, Manning, Bretland, Kenrick, and Carpenter, the descendants of those who excommunicated Mr. Peirce and his adherents have been long since brought to adopt a form of Unitarianism, from which the most heretical of those times would have started back with affright. In 1810, the two congregations, finding that there was no longer any material difference in their views on disputed points, again united. The Exeter controversy, in consequence of the appeal made by both parties to certain ministers in London, was the mean