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in-this-letter ' what tnight be called ail Ufritarian creed ; ' but I nevertheless think it highly necessary that those truths of
religion , on which the Unitarians particularly insist , should be more generally known and understood . Having been long conversant with those classes of Christians who call themselves evartg ; € lical , I know it to be a very prevailing notion with the majoirity of them , that the terms Unitarian , Socinian , Deist , and
very often Atheist , are nearly synonymous ; and this illiberal error is kept alive by the zeal of those whose duty it is , at least , to allow their hearers to have so much headknowledge as would enable them to understand , that these terms have a most materially different signification . It is a very
general opinion among a certain class of Christians , remarkable for their zeal in promoting popular preaching , that all UnU tarians deny Christ ; that they look upon his death as of no efficacy in the salvation of sinners y that they think men may be saved without faith ; that a man may purchase his salvation by being honest in the world ; that Unitarians utterly disclaim all " peace and joy in the Holy Ghost ; " that to " rejoice
evermore , to pray without ceasmg f and in every thing to givs thank $ / constitute rio part of the Christian privileges of an Unitarian ; that a man may be a very good Unitarian Christian , and yet indulge in all the follies and sinful vanities of the world ; that to have - < c peace and joy in believing—to h $ ve peace in God through our Lord Jesus Christ—to have the love of God shed abroad in the heart , by the Holy Spirit given unto us—to
know that when our earthly house of this tabernacle is dissolved , we have a building with God , a house not made with hands , eternal in the heavens , " are all things about which an Unitarian is wholly unconcerned ; that , like Gallio " he careth not for any of these things /* Now , Mr . Editor , give me leave to ask , are these things so ? Are these the necessary consequences of unitarianism ? An 4 is it quite requisite that these Christian advantages should exclusively belong to those who believe that " the Father is God , the Son is God , and the Holy Ghost is God ; and yet that these are not three Gods , but one God ? " In order to enjoy the blessings of the gospel , must a man believe that the lust and
merciful Jehovah did actually inflict the most dreadful punishment upon his holy and innocent Son , with whom he had declared himself to be well pleased ? That to be hurnbled for our manifold transgressions , we should believe that the Almighty sent us into the world with the curse of his " wrath and everlasting
damnation" upon our heads ? That no one can be grateful for divine assistance , unless he believes himself totally incapable of thinking a good thoug ht * speaking a good wqrdj or doing ^
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244 On Unitarictnism .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/20/
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