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to understand ; Surely the holy ^ Apostle would , have sooner cut off one pf those hands which * ' ministered to his necessities /' than hare employed it to subscribe a known falsehood , or to accept the emoluments of an office whose duties he could ng > longer conscientiously perform .
I had the curiosity to inquire how that inveterate foe of our faith theEckctio Reviewer would consider this discourse to th& Clergy of Essex . He takes occasion from it to pour the dregs of his venom on the name of the late Mr , Ev ^ nson , whose honourable resignation of his preferments he has . not the magnanimity to mention , though it had so well served for an
illustration By contrast . Another venerable person ( yet spared to the wishes of his friends ) , whose high integrity can never be forgotten when such subjects are discussed , receives more justice than might have been expected , in the following passage , where we are still inaccurately described after the Polish reformer ^ which , however , we would much rather accept than to l > e named after the murderer of Servetus , * ' Socinians /*
says the Reviewer , ** triumphing in the integrity of their vene- ^ rable Lindsey , who , with the opinions renounced the emoluments of the church , will spurn the man who sacrifices his principles to his purse / ' He then . very naturally " turns with exultation to the two thousand worthies of St . Bartholomew's
day . ' Fas est uh hoste doceru Yet , after all > some Unitarians may be inclined to rejoice " m the accession of such an able advocate as th § author of this discourse ; who , to quote a great moralist , may be expected " to kindle in thousands and tens of thousands the flame that
burns but dimly in himself . ' * I should , however , expect more permanent advantage to the cause of Christian simplicity from the humble attempts of a plain man of " mother-wit , and learned without the schools , " whose conduct is consistent with his pro * fession , than from the more brilliant exploits of our conform- * ing reformers , A reader admires the extent of their erudition , and the dexterity with which it is applied ; yet there is i > o small
clanger of regarding , them as contenders for victory rather than for truth . Thus 4 i the weapons of their warfare /* however excellently tempered , or ably wielded , may * play round the head , but come not to the heart . " I have now , Sir , ventured to animadvert , I fear > beyond your patience ; yet , I trusty witli nothing more than Ci dup Christian animosity / ' on the production of a gentleman tp
whom I am an utter stranger , and whose name I never heard but in connection with his discourse . Of that discourse , excepting one or two indecorous phrases which have escaped iurrente calatiw , 1 have a bigh opinion ; arid cowld tk % author
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Jiemarks on Unitarian Ministers . 593
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vol .. I . 4 G
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/33/
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