Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ FREETHINKING CHRISTIANS, a name lately adopted by a society which arose in the year 1799, and has ever since regularly assembled in London, calling itself a church of God, founded on the principles of free inquiry. ”
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ Forms and ordinances, parade and show, are no parts of his system; but virtue and purity of heart can alone prepare man for a blissful existence beyond the grave; the wisdom and hope of which were furnished by the resurrection of the teacher of their faith, a member of earth, and an heir or immortality. ”
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ These freethinking Christians readily admit that since their first assembling as a body, their sentiments have undergone considerable alteration on points of primary importance; but they contend that this is the natural consequence of free inquiry; that men who had heretofore been the slaves of errour, could not but advance in the attainment of truth, after adopting a system which left thought unrestrained, and conscience free' and they are still ready to renounce any opinion, whenever it shall appear to them untenable. ”
