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I am not fond of such work , I shall ( except referring you to my former letter ) only ask you 1 . Whether you do not hereby guard against apprehending Christ to be any real being or person at all ? or in what order of beings must he stand ?—2 . Whether the New Testament language is not abundantly more clear and instructive , which speaks of Christ ( without
your guards ) under positive , intelligible , and useful characters ^ as Son of God , begotten by the Father , existing before all ages , by whom God rhade the worlds , sent to redeem the world , and as clothed with all perfections and invested with all dominion ?
The reports you refer to , in the latter part of sect , 4 , as so false and monstrous , I suppose I am a stranger to ; but if ever I hear them , I will endeavour to remember your caution not to believe them . However , in case such reports , so much to your disadvantage , have been made in these parts , they were
it seems , only echoed back , and must have their original in your parts ; and if coined there , I leave you to account for " em in your own way . I doubt not you have heard as wild reports concerning me as any I have heard about you .
As to the suspicion of your being in the Arian scheme * sect , 5 , I have nothing to say , in regard I do not know that ever I suspected it , or ever heard any suggest that they suspected it : nor in what respect you were once wavering can I conjecture ; but I hope you are in the Gospel-scheme , and will never waver .
For your compliment , in sect . 6 , I heartily thank you , though I perhaps as little deserve it at present as ever I did in my life , I endeavour , indeed , to make all my sermons evangelical , practical , and useful , for which I appeal to my hearers , and to them only ; but this last summer I have turned not front but to a more controversial strain , having been , as well
as I am able , vindicating the divine mission of Moses and the prophets , Christ and his apostles , and the credibility and divine authority of the Scriptures against the Deists , which I judge the greatest Christian controversy , and consequentl y what may be very useful . I never dealt much in controversy in my sermons ; but in my catechetical lectures , where I thought it not , proper to lay aside the Assembly ' s Catechism , have ( as I judged a faithful pastor ought to do ) freely censured the doctrines I believed to be erroneous , which were not a few nor small . not he in
I am ver ^ sensible Christian candour censuring heartSy or in virulent declamations against bigotry , and I hope I shall take your advice in teaching souls that it does not ; aud any other friendly advice will , I hope , be always accepted and improved by , Sir , your ' s * S . Bourne .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/19/
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