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benevolence and Christian charity . It views the ignorant with compassion , and the erring , so far as their errors may be attributed to defective information or involuntary tiaisconceptiori , with toleration .
It even sheds a sympathetic tear over the partially vicious , and manifests towards them the patience which hopeth all things . In controversy it is fair , unassuming , and liberal ; asserting nothing that admits not of proof . In no case does it delight in the language of invective ; yet its * bold and
dispassionate reasonings may cause the stoutest heart to yield . Should it sometimes , from the fear of exercising unjust severity , fail in tearing the mask from hypocrisy , its power will be often evinced by the bitter tears of sorrow and self-reproach from the ? eyes of apostacy and penitence .
These qualities , which appear to me indispensable to genuine candour , have certainly something godlike in them ; they raise the mind ) according to the tneasure in which they are possessed , above the sordid grasp of selfish passions and prejudices ; their kindly influence is indeed sometimes shed on the evil , as well as on the good ; but who on that account would jvish to extinguish their lustre , or invalidate their efficacy ? The cultivation
of : them is our duty , and will , m proportion as we carry thenor to a high degree or excellence , promote our individual happiness , and contribute to the general good . Their principle is divine ; they are the germs of the perfections of the Deity . Their imperfection in us arises from the defectibility of our natiare , and will be done away when that is removed . S . A .
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"mr , Browne ' s explanation , in reply to the review of his selections /' To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . SrR , I observed in your Review , of my Scriptural Selections , two months ago , a few paragraphs which call on me for explanation . The first is this ; " The idea of the Selection is taken , we are told in the preface [ introduction ] , from Dr . Watts : to many of the Doctor ' s admirers it would have been more satisfactory , if the author had referred to that part of Dr . Watts ^ s works wherein this plan is proposed : we ourselves are curious to
know in what period of his life this timid , although great , man conceived so bold % nd liberal a notion / ' In answer to this , % will cite a passage oil two from the preface of the work men ? tioned-in my prospeofoi % subjoitiing to the citation the title of
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Mr . Browne ' s Explanation . 2 * 1
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VOL . I . II
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/17/
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