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to God the Ifoly Ghost , that through the blood and atonement of God the Son , they might be made acceptable to God the
Father . " Should any reader of this Repository not discover an essential agreement between the style of prayer here prescribed , and the practice of prophets , and apostles , and of Jesus Christ -himself , who
taught the language of prayer , it may be because his evangelical > ye is not opened ! These sentiments of the preacher were apcompanied by a sufficient quantity of invective against Arians and &oci ~ nians as absolute infidels ^ who must of course be C 4 anathema
maranatha . ' A chapel teacher of this city , of the Arminian persuasion , lately introduced the hackneyed subject of infidelity , alarmipg infidelity , " by warning his people against swarms of Avians , Socinians , and other Unitarians , who were to be found in the country ;
jmen who never read their bible , but who talk their infidelity b ^ ro te , like parrots ^ understanding nothing of what they talk , and whereof they affirm , &c . Another popular chapel oracle here , with equal assvu ranee , and the better to give a negative ^ explanation of his text , (*'* Iriirnanuel—God with us , * ' ) asserted that it was a text of winch
Avians and Socinians can make nothing—t ~ they have * no Immanuel —they know not what it meansthey , have no lively , or any sense of the subject—wherever their assemblies are found , nothing but darkness and death are found
Among them—Christianity has been destroyed by Avians in the westj and by / Socinia / is in the east / ' &c . Thus it is become fashionable to cram the illiterate of modern , congregations , under
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the guize of orthodoxy .. and exrctrt gelum , with arrant falsehood and abuse , the tendency whereof is to obstruct and destroy that essential part of Christianity , brotherly
kindness and charity of sentiment ; but / toe , it should seem , are of small account , in comparison of the evangelical benefit that is to be conferred on mixed congregations by slander and untruth .
Some persons , of almost any assembly * who hear such sentiriients , may know better than to believe them , and in ay silently disapprove ; but , unwilling to oppose their teacher , in contending Jor , the true Juitky they say little about his indiscretions ;
while the generality of such con - gregations > being ignorant of theological facts , take for truth what is thus shamefully conveyed to them ! The effect , undoubtedl y ^ is to excite the most odious sentiments of
brother Christians—of men who not only do read their bibles * but read them with particular attention ; men who take their prin . ciples of Christianity from the real
teachings of Christ himself ; and who , because they flud his , teachings correspondent wi th the ancient divinity of good and holy men , with the commands of the Al *
mighty , who change th nou and with the full conviction of their own minds , refuse to receive triiii * - tarian illusions , the inventions of priests , and the impositions of councils , which have corrupted the
doctrines of genuine Christianity . Such Biblc-rcading men are always re ^ dy to vindicate' themselves oa Bible principles , and to appeal to the authority of Christ . himself for the soundness' of their
Christianity . They contend , oa tire fullest and fairest evidence , for the simple , eternal unity of God *
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7 * Pulpit Aspersions *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/22/
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