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far this is consistent with Christian principles . If the minister threaten us with the wrath of God , in case of our disobedience , he should produce evidence that such wrath is lodged in his hands , and that he is warranted to unite his own wrath with that of the Almighty , before we be directed by him . But , some will say , that they do not meet together , because the minister has given the command , but for other purposes , to impress their audiences with a sense of their sins , and the sins of the nation , and to arouse them to repentance , and to the cultivation of universal brotherly love . Why , then , do they meet at the very day arid hour which the minister has appointed ? Were it not for his appointment , they would be otherwise
employed at this time . If they do not therefore answer the purposes of ministers who have hitherto possessed , and have probably wished to infuse into us the spirit of passive obedience and non-resistance , and if they think that no ministers are armed with the wrath of God , to be dealt out at their
pleasure , they should avoid the charge of hypocrisy , and exercise their Christiap liberty , whilst they leave all others to be fully persuaded in their own minds . The minister will deserve praise who will undertake to new * .
mould our proclamations for fasts , &c . and to frame them in such language as will produce the acquiescence of the most scrupulous Christians . When the subject is religion , there should be no human comjnand , nor any assumption of divine prerogative . W . H *
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362 Vindication qf + Mr . Evdnson ' s Memoir's .
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VINDICATION OF MR . EVANSON ' s MEMOIRS , To the Editor of the Monthly Repository \ Sir , Having been accused by a writer in your Repository of last month , under the signature of" A Plain Christian , ( p . 247 ) with having , in the Memoir I sent you of the late Mr . Evanson , most extravagantly extolled his character at the expense of
truth , I will beg you to permit me to make a short reply . To prove this accusation , your correspondent attacks the character of Mr . E . and endeavours to shew from his writings that he was not entitled to the encomiums which he says Ci I have so unjustly bestowed upon him . " He arranges his charges under four heads , His first charge is , that in his controversy with Dr . Priestley upon a Christian Sabbath , Mr . E . has endeavoured to annihU late the observance of it ; after advancing which , he triune phantly exclaims , " This is his display of Christianity in its native simplicity I This is rendering it plain and intelligible to the poor ^ d buyable V Now ., Sir , it appears to me ( for I # rq
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/26/
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