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they are ready at any time to meet their orthodox brethren , even the most exalted and learned of them , in the open field of controversy , and there discuss their pretensions , upon the common and allowed principles of legitimate criticism . If the orthodox imagine that the Unitarians circulated their
edition of the Christian scriptures , with any , the most distant intention to aid the cause of Deism , they are involved in the grossest error that ever men were . The
greatest enemies of the religion of Jesus never accused the primitive Christians with less reason of being promoters of Atheism . That the clergy should use increased vigilance in the discharge of their duties . Mr . Watfs cannot wish
more heartily and ardently than the Unitarians do , and , of course , they feel themselves jealous , lest an impression should be made on the public mind of its being intimated that they are accessary to that laxity of morals which too generally prevails in all classes of
society . If any man of fair character and good understanding , after deliberately and dispassionately reading the edition of fhe Chrisiian scriptures which they have published , will venture to affirm that it has any tendency to promote a laxity of morals , they will acknowledge that verdict just ,
which condemns tbefn to eternal shame and infamy . The Utrita ^ rians have the cause of truth and good morals most deeply at heart , at * d they are fully sensible of the
awful responsibility under which they act * The clergy , therefore , should not hastily condemn frk * m , lest , as Gamaliel told the Jewish Sanhedrim , thefy should lay them . * > 1 ve& open to tbVmerited but most
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severe censure even of contending against God . T . B .
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On the Correspondence between Lord Stanhope and Mr . W . Smith . Sir , August 2 , 1812 . You have , very
properlycopied the late correspondence , in the public prints , between two senators , well-known to the friends of civil and religious
liberty . One cannot help regretting that such a correspondence should exist . Yet , when once in the world , justice to the parties
requires that it be preserved entire , so that neither may be injured by an opinion formed from accidentally meeting with detached pas * sases . On the merits of the
dispute I am little disposed , and as ill prepared to decide . In the ardour of earlier years , 1 have fre ^ quently accompanied both tbedisputants , through tvil report and
good report , m pursuit of rtjorrn , and now , reclining in my elbowchair , I exclaim with the umptre , among Virgil ' s shepherds ,
Non nostrum inter vos tantas componerc lites , . ' " *"" or , as feitftful Trapp translates , * Ti $ not in me this contest to decide . The difference between these
correspondents appears to have arisen chiefly from thrir differen t manner of proportioning , for their own use , the two ingredients which compose an
invaluable mental viaticum for pub-r lie men , everting themselves m pursuit of public good . I ' ^ e&e ingwtWtUs you Will guess t < j > * fee courage ^ tiA conduit , tixforfficr ' in
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On the Correspbndenct between Ldrd Stanhope and Mr . W . Smith . 4 sQ
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 497, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/21/
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