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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Introductory Sketch of the early history of Unitarianism in England. (search)
afterwards seceded, was ordained a clergyman of the established church), declare their determination to keep to the plainness and simplicity of scripture language in all discourses about matters of faith, divinity, and doctrine; not believing subjects above the investigation of human reason and knowledge to be necessary to salvation, further than they are clearly revealed in the scripture. The declaration of their faith on these points presented to both Houses of Parliament, as preserved in Sewell's History of the Quakers, is strictly and properly Unitarian. See the Monthly Repository, VIII. 647. For a collection of prayers delivered by twelve preachers of note in this society towards the close of the 17th century, expressed for the most part in terms which no Unitarian would hesitate to use, see the same publication, vol. IX. 167. Their descendants in this country have for the most part deserted the faith and practice of their forefathers in this respect; and have not only adopt