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To the Editor ofthe Monthly liepjbitory .
Ba £ kf ss& , January 1 O , 1809 . * £ h \ * Jute season of religious festival , has doubtless been attended In many places , Avith much pub * lie discussion of ortiiodoxv- keterod / ypy m % d infidelity * This Cantfoi have escaped the observation of fch ' oke , uho from motives of fair di
en ^ fy , occasionally attend the religious assemblies of different ^ orcieties . I am bhe of that number ; riot from a : ny difficulty I find ini embracing , in £ shorter ^ & y > those truths of 3 tlie J ^ pel which ; appear ib m& chiefly iHcessary for toe faith of a christidh , btit with a hope of witnessing ah increase of rational ' and scriptural faUhj
accompamea b y growing charity . The season of th £ nativity of Christ , and also that of his death
atid resurrection , nlay naturally , arid from pious tndtives , oftcA excite peculiar reVeVeiVbe respects ing his nawe ^ nd o ^ c ^ amohjg fncti - Bilt Whoever CortMdilrs , as
lie otlgtit , the reiil e ' haiacfer of the Son of G 6 d , u 4 ia't ; he said of lii rn ^ self , and wha £ hcl taiignt for the instruction and gov ^ rnrnfent of others , will see abundant cause
for the cultivatidn 6 f an uncalummating and charitiole disposition * Sorry I -airn to say , that in these days , of t'h ^ iitctefee of ^ issenti li g congregations in this country , a censorious , rather'tb&iy ^ cliiiritf
able constriicltiort of the' exercifc of th 6 rijgbtf < # ! ftnvai : e jud ^ rtie ^ t * ^ efeiti ^ tp be ' gaimng ' groUhd * All ascriptions 6 tf ^ pjftUXtiLtft dis ^ en * tt * V , intlugfvy of ^ ie '' chufcfr fef T ^ tond ; "( i&icft"is' but ^ ^ a ^ a ! ^ Sjej ^^ r ^ frQjn the mother ctixii ^ cft tif * RiAt&j [ M \ l verbally agree as
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to their rights of private judgment , and condemn , in terms nearly alike , the exertion of . an ^ controubng power against' ntem , i'espectively . Bui in th ^ trie of that
independence vvhicli they so ' justly claim , there seems to be indufoed a most mconsisrent licence vt abuse and disparagement . * This practice is most remarkable among those sects which lay claim to the gfccitdst share of evangelical religion . Indeed no small proporthi £
tion both of the writ re it and extetn ^ oraneous scrmo n ^^ a t season of the yeai \ are remark able for abounding * ri 6 i * c in the' censure and abuse of diffcrdiit ^ ocictJes abd tenets , than in the oiiffclf ^ ttibrif bl useful Christian fairti ' % hU l that
persdnal holincssy uithdut Which no mad is warranted in e ^ jiettmg the acceptance of his inaker ^ " That in the church' of Ki M ^ nd
this spirit of censure should % o foil rid , i ^ ppcti hg all ' dissenters from her art ? cles * aiid communfoh
lsjiotVondv ^ rftll . ' She is a church of national emoliirnents , ' br rather a churchi folding tb ^ l li a kind of tottefy of femblument ^ ;; and her jealousy may "be £ ver ^ xj > ected in proDortion as her teachers , who jcire . \ va ^ ching for th ' fe prizes , see t hettiseWc's rivalled \ n the public
cstunation . vulnerable as she feels herself irf * cliflferent articles oi Htr professed X faith dnd practicey ^ h % k&i \ x \< S , fee expected to be easy ' un der |' e-xposui > e and dissent , While lh ^ ¥ e ' aVs of 4 p ^ ofesed re lbrma ^ tio ' n d ^ e &KfcitedVa tefotmation ^ WhichI if once contteencett , inay ' spreaci "too ftir , alnd endanger her p ^ esi ht clf ^ Ce of securi ty . Her Trdquenl cries oi the church in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/20/
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