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Christ : which is all the agreement that subsists betwixt the followers of Calvin , andofArminus , and those eminent persons ? The Calvinists are far from
concurring in every particular with Calvin , the Arminians with Arminius , —yet neither of them Lave violently disclaimed these appellations , or considered them
as terms of reproach . Why are the Sociniins only offended at being denominated after Socinu * ? Is it because they differ in the nature of Christ ' s person from that celebrated Heresiarch ? This thev
will not pretend . But they differ from him Wk many respects ! In what respects ? Is it in those respects ii \ which his sentiments gave most offence to the Christian world ? Is it that they have re- ' ceded from him in that direction
which brings them nearer to the generally received doctrine of the Church ? Just the reverse . In the esteem of all but themselves they have descended many degrees
lower in the scale of error , have plunged many fathoms deeper in the gulph of impiety ; yet with an assurance , of which they have furnished the only example , they affect to consider themselves
injured by being styled Socinians , when they know , in their own consciences , that they differ from Socinus only in pushing the degradation of the Saviour to a muph greater length—and that , in th , e views of the Christian world ,
their re ligious delinquencies * differ from his , only as treason differs from sedition , or sacrilege from theft * The appellation of Socinian , as applied to them , is a term of forbearance , calculated , if they would suffer ; , not to expose but to hide a part of their shame . Let
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them assume any denomination they please , providing it be such as will fairly represent their sentiments . ' Let them be styled Antiscriptural is ts , Humanitarian ^ , Semi-Deists , Priestleians , or Socinians .
But Jet them not be designated by a term which is merely coveted by them for the purposes of chicane and imposture . "—Eclectic Review , February , 1812 . Art . V . Gregory's Letters .
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Reflections on the Fast Day , 1812 » " One murder makes a villain , *' and arouses the alarm , indignation and horror of a whole community . Yet a murder differs from an
ordinary death , which excites no sensation beyond a very small circle , inasmuch only as it is life taken away by the hand of man , wilfully , for some immoral end . Will
nqt this definition embrace much of the blood-shed occasioned by war ? The end of war may not be private revenge or robbery ; but for every deed done by man , some man must be morally accountable ; and any life needlessly taken away , no matter under what 4 t pomp and
circumstance , \ s a murder ; and as many lives as there are needlessly taken away , so many murders are there : by needless shed - ding of blood is understood the sacrifice of life in any case where the saving of it would not occasion a worse evil than its destruction .
In the rivers of human blood that have been poured out during the Jast twenty years , how much of the guilt of murder must have been incurred I How much
carnage amongst the defenceless and innocent ! How frwjeh slaughter merely for the pitrjpdsfe of rapine ! Even in a just war * there will , in
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54 ~ Reflections on the Fast Day .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/30/
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