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tgej tliey cannot be too closely resembled , in the ardenf labours 6 f Unitarians . To this also the habit of extempore preaching * if it could once be generally acquired , would be found coiisiderably to contribute : a way of preaching which , if Unitarian ministers had been trained to , appears as practicable , as this way of speaking in the senate or at the bar . But to return to
the Methodists , It is a well known fact , that in later times , when a new Methodist Society has been forming in any particular town or village , those who have taken the lead in it have generally been at great pains to convince the neigbourhood of their attachment to the Established Church , attending on prayer days , festivals , 8 cc . although , when they have once accomplished their end ^
they have not scrupled , in some instances , to advise a total separation . The clergy , indeed , they have represented as a set of drones in the spiritual vineyard ; but the church they have generally looked up to as the pillar and ground of the faith . In contrast with the above , direct your attention to the
situation of Unitarianism ., Grounding its separation on reason and argument , and avowing the most unbounded liberality and charity , you find it presenting itself in open hostility to the fundamental articles , creeds , and forms of the English , church establishment . You find it also equally decided in its rejection of all human establishments of religion whatever ; recommending and insisting on the necessity and importance of a return to the pure Nazarene doctrine of one God , and to the true nature of our Saviour's kingdom , as not of this world .
Unitarians describe Christianity as disclaiming every alliance with political or civil power . Subject , in common with others , to the burthens of the State , and bound in civil concerns by the laws of their country , they claim , indeed , the common rights of subjects . They expect and claim the protection of the magistrate in the free exercise of their worship , and in
maintaining their religious opinions in the world : but they disclaim his peculiar patronage and favour ; they assert the most unrestrained freedom of inquiry , and that conscience , as applying to religionj as it seeks not a connexion with earthly power , does not consider itself as amenable to any earthly tribunal .
-This , in contrast with the circumstances of the Methodist ? , is the situation of Unitarianism . Although assuredly gaining ground , and great numbers being such in principle , and still , however inconsistently , continuing their conformity ^ yet has it thus difficulties to struggle with , both in number and magnitude , far beyond what attended the first propagation * p £ Methodism ,
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Unitarianism and Methodism . S&t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/23/
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