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had been one , I will not answer for his giving a correct account of the proceedings of those times . His bitterness against the c noted academic , * is easily accounted for
"by those who are acquainted with the two parties : and I am very sorry that a Dissenting minister should use so coarse and vulgar a stile , and after the lapse of so many years , should have retained so much of an unchristian spirit , as the extract and many other
writings of his , too plainly exhibit . It would be wrong to dwell much upon the ravings of a distempered mind : though I approve highly of your inserting the extract ,- both that the Unitarians may see what is said of them by their adversaries , and that the editors of the Eclectic
Review may be ashamed of admitting such trash into their publication . To the writer of the extract I have ^ eason to believe the academic referred , and the question was not
about the plurality of persons in the Godhead , but on a . peculiar opinion of that writer ' s , who amongst other vagaries of his , had that of believing in two Gods . Whether he retains that faith at
present or not , I cannot tell , as several years have ; elapsed , since I beard any thing of him , and it i * probable that the academic referred to , is as little acquainted % vith him as myself .
On the appellation of Unitarian , I am not surprised that the Eclectics feel sore . It is a term which brings to their mind , a discriminating truth , and does not allow
them to enter into those personalities , ii \ which they would delight to indulge , if we had been so imprudent as to enlist under the banners of a party , or to desig-
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nate ourselves by the name of any man . We acknowledge no other name , and have no leader but Christ . Lardner and Priestley , or
the gentleman whom the writer designates by his asterisks ******* may have written well or ill : we are not bound by their tenets , nor will we be called by their names . We leave to others to say , ' i am
of Paul , ' Fain of Apollos , ' * I am of Cephas , ' * I am of Calvin , * 4 1 am of Arminius . * LetTus say , 4 We are of Christ . ' we look up to him as the author and finisher
of our faith , and if we must take any other name besides that of Christian , let it be one which marks our opinion , without reference to any human authority .
On this account , the term Uni . tarian is properly assumed by us , and very properly given to us b y the best writers among the sectarians , whether established by law , or going under the name of #
Dissenters . Give me leave , Sir , to present you with an extract from a publication which seems to me to confirm the propriety of the title in
question . It is in p . 26 , 2 nd edition , of Mr . Frend ' s Thoughts on Subscription to religious Tests In the text , he says ,
" From my view of the scri ptures , it appears to me , that there is one God , the Creator and Governor of the Universe , the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ; that the hypothesis of two natures in Christ , has no
foundation ia scripture , but arises solely from the endeavours' of man to solve some apparent difficulties , which they co \* ld not do on any other supposition : that' Jesus Christ was a man like ourselves , sin only excepted , through whfoni , by the free gift of God , they wh #
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164 On the Extrackfrom tit Eclectic Review *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/28/
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