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memory of his private virtues , some of which , and particularly his integrity in resigning his station in the established church , no one can more admire than myself , 1 now close the subject by leaving it to your readers to
determine how far the man who exerted his " best abilities" ( to use liis own language ) to persuade the world that the observance of a Christian Sabbath and the assembling for public worship , were superstitiou errors of a very pernicious tendency—who has attacked and ridiculed three-fourths of those Christian
Scriptures which our Lockes , our Newtons , our Lardners , ovlv Doddridges , have some of them proved , to be , and all of them Teeeived as genuine—who pronouces our Lord's Sermon on the Mount , his description of the last judgment , as recorded by
Matthew , and his valedictory address to his disciples previous to his crucifixion ( oot to mention other passages )^ frbm which millions of Christians in all ; ages have derived such an inex- * haustible fund of instruction and jconsolation , to be spurious fictions—who rejects the miracles ^ the doctrines , the promises , and the precepts of our Saviour , as evidences of the truth of Christianity— -who has risked its whole credit on the * cast of 9
sl die / that ; is , his own fallible interpretation of the rnost mysterious book of the New Testament , written in the most figu-r rative ; lat * ga . I iage : leave it » fco your reader * to determine how far such a man deserves to be held up to the world as <( one of the brightest ornaments and best instructors of Christiani ty ^
whose Fpeculiar excellence consisted m his endeavouring to display Christianity in its native simplicity , by which it is as intelligible now to theTpoor and humble as it was when taught by Jesus and his apostles to the Jewish and < Jentileiruiltitu 4 e * , " On the cpntrary , I beg leave to repeat the assert ion * at the close of my first letter on this subject : I am much
mistaken if the great xnajarity oi your readers do not agree with me in opinion , that the writings oi Mr . Evanson ^ in general ^ have a iroich greater tendency to promote the cause of sceptic cisjpnand of mfidelity than x > f genuine "Christiamty ; and concerning whom , when consixlering his character as a writer , we jriay justly adopt the language ojf our Saviour- —^ He that in least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he /' JIarlozv , Dec . 1 , 1806 * A Plain Christiak ^ * better of J ; S . —^ Monthly Repository for June—fassim *
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654 ; jRemarks on the Writings of Mr . Evanson * <
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/38/
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