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ately blazed abroad in a wonder-. Mag world , by those who paid no attention to the writers , nor to any of their , doctrines ? but would raider suppress every reference to them , is . no proof of a forgery in this case . I do not say , however , with some whom I have heard
discant upoja the subject , that > if « me man cuts off two chapters , and ^ nofhcjr two mor ^ j we may soon Iiave nothing , left . Let ev <* ry interpolation be cut off * which can
be prav ; ed to be such , and we shall lose nothing , but gain by it , as we shall still have the gospel , and jbaye . it . in its most perfect state . But ,, let us reject nothing without the fullest evidence , after we have
made the ipost impartial inquiry . And let us build nothing upon uncertaintie | not introduce any dreams of our own whilst we are declaiming r j || pinst dreams , nor contend abo ^ ut genealogies , whilst
we are inveighing against those who have donc ^ so . The best method which preachers can take to promote the cause of Unitarhinism , is to explain this doctrine fully as it lies before us in the
Scriptures , without any bias upon our minds , and without adverting , except occasionally and in our own defence , to the monstrous systems of those who oppose them-,
selves to it . Any difficulties which may arise in the mind of a hearer , may be resolved privately , and any malicious attacks * thal ar $ made upon us from ttle > press may
be answered from the press * : Jphis was the . incthod % | Ur ch was adopted in America- ; hRL a gentleman who was , more . successful there than ^ ny other man in propagating tpe ^ doctrine of the divine uni ty ; T ^ nli-satisfactionism , &c
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But whilst w ^ pray to thffee ( fr more Gods in the desk , weslmtt to very little purpose declare from
the pulpit that there is ^ only one < QocL I do not say that this is , the practice of Mr * Stone , nor do I know that he is even present whilst the Trinitarian service is
performing . But there have been such contradictory and inconsist > ent men . The late Rev . and ingenious Mr . Hewlett , of Essex , whom I very well knew , was one of this number . He made no
scruple to read the church service , though he believed no more in the Trinity than Mr * Stone or Mr . Evanson . He even laughed at the absurdity of the doctrine *
as much as any man . But he pretended that he only read the service as a herald docs a proclamation , without having any other qpneern in the business-than to
read it . He would not therefore allow it to be said , when he read praj-ers , that he prayed himself ; but only that he ran through an old foolish service-at the command
of the governors of the church , in which he had no faith ^ vBut he would not inform thev congregation , that they were not to consider him . as a worshipper , until thev saw him throw off his
surplice . He would not follow the example of Dr . Sykes , who , whea tt ^ a ||? ne < i with a prosec u tion hy the . bishop , Snless he read the if | fiianasiaa Creed , prefaced the business with this notice , -I am commanded * fcp icad a certain
creed said to . be written by a saint called Athanasius ; but God forbid that it should be * , ypur : creed or mif e . J 3 e would not like mvtf say , ypu » g $$ iu&t r remember , my . friends , tfrat . I do noL believe *
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¦ J&& 1 Inconcfasiucncss vf Mr . Stom ? & Argument **
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/24/
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