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danger , her anathemas against error , her complaints of atheism and infidtlity ^ and' her solfcriin warnings against heresies * are quite in character ^ -although it cannot be denied that many of her teachers are too well informed to
be real believers in trinitanan mysteries and Athanasian absurdities . - But some ¦ uf' the boldest and bitterest invective's against simple scriptural UeMeveis are to be heard , as I have heanrtiiem , if om popular
teachers , in the different Calvinistic and anti-Calvinistierecte , but among the former especially . Their jealousies of each other , respecting nwdes of baptism , aiad the degrees and dispensations of f& ' ii / i and
grace ^ and mean ® of-salvaittni ^ are ever keeping them in an uneasy ferment , and engendering apparent ill-will , while , the different degrees of arrogance , too often arising from ignorance in teachers , influence
the members of their congregations a c c o rd i ngly . Many a re thereby 4 ed , as the really blind ^ "by ways which they know not ** ' Deluded wome n * without the means of
better knowledge , are often thus made implicit believers of what the scriptures d ** not teach ; they become smatlerets in divinity out their snuff-boxes mid tea-tables :
their children are confused with opposite catechisms , and hymns % hich none can be- supposed ever to understand ; all , however , professedly grounck&mi" the vfrdfrd of God , " which is their common description of the whole bible . The word , of CJod # s thus defined * made to sanction alike all notions
of taitijiy . how « verc wild or contradictory . These things , in the present imperfection of human society , in which jpeligioUs frailty ifc involved , we nftistnot hope to see
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wholly corrected ; and wherever sincerity even in error is accoxupanied by common benevolence , -we must endeavour to be content z
there is abundant reason for this ^ seeing the Almighty himself bcacs with innumera . bl <* imperfections iu u& , and in nil his accoantabte
. But when in the p&lpity tfo-e place commonly held ilvjt ino . vt sacred on earth , we sc ^ e the prcxfesssed taiiiistdrs > of the gospet giving way to vague and vfcionar ^ envious and reproachful d <> ctrinc ^ it becomes so aw of us obscrrveus lo
noUcc their improprieties , l ) y way of caution to the- inconsifieiaite ^ amoni ; their hearers . And ^ bv «^ i v of rc \) roof to tiicin vv [ k > grc ^ sdv " aftemL f l'hU may be at Jea ^ t worthily attempted ^ froni tiiwe u * time , through ttr . c channel of sucifo .
a publication as t / tis * Fbr . tlie ^ rusi » nt 1 will- state a few publ ic occurrences of peculiar 'complexion , which have lately fiillea > un < der my notice . A . certain popular *• evangelical '' preacher of the establish ment ^ in Bristcd , was . lately speaking '' to h is a u d i e nce on 111 e d ea th an d re * . suriTction of Christ , from this
passage ; Whosoever loveth not our Lord Jesus Christ , let him be ¦ A na t h mm rvlaranatha . ' * Alter dwelling variously , on the different obligations of love to . Christ , he thought proper to illustrate hi * subject , by * the love which would be excited in the minds o £ kiih
dearly beloved brethren , by the appearance of their below d A eh on ^ returning , covered with ^ ound ^ nad the glory of conqticst , from Ibe battle of Trafalgar !* ' ^ Llhm was undoubtedly sixblitiiGieV £ 8 n > ge iism J For the final salv ^ tf&o rf oi ^ h iis au- ( Jiencc they iVi"TO ^ to l P *}
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/21/
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