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question ; but had he done so , he would have found that all Unitarians do not deny the miraculous conception , * much less * declare Christ to , haye been fallible and peccable ! ' v
' 4 . Because they reject his expiatory sacrifice , intercession , &e . " i . e . they reject Mr . Freeston e s interpretation of the word sacrifice , but ibey presume to think that they understand as well as he the meaning of the word , as
applied to Christ in the New Testament , and in the true scriptural meanings they gladly acknowledge the sacrifice of Christ . Mr . Freeston betrays a strange
ignorapceof their sentiments and writings in tfye assertion that c they deny that there was any merit in the shedding of his bipod . ' His etcetera they do in all probability deny .
" 5 / Because the important doctrines of regeneration , justification , divine influence ^ &c . are rejected by tjiem as enthusiastic . " Here is another « Xc . which it is
highly probable-the Unitarians do not believe ; but as to the , important doctrines specified ,, they do hold them in the sense in Vthich ihey believe they are taught in scripture , though they deny Mn Freeston ' s sense of them as uri-.
scriptural , absurd and peinicious . ** --fi # Because I cannot see in 'what respects Jesus Christ is a saviour , upon their scheme , any more than the apostles were . "
But tjhough invisible to Mr . Freeston , it may ^ et be mad e clear that the Unitarians distinguish Chlist as honourably asthey find him distinguished in the scriptures . The apostks have > e * Unitarians the example of < : on ?> i-
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derifig death as the ^ great enferhy of mankind , ami © f ascribing the victory over this enemy to God by J ? sy # Christ . ; Me the only begotten from the . dead ^ by the poucr of his resurrection , hath
abolished death arid vrovght life and immortality to light . This was the great sal . vat Ton effected by Christ , of which the apostles were witnesses and reporters . To them the Unitarian feels his
gratitude and reverence to' be due , but be does higher honour tb their and his Lord , to the * glory of God the Father . " 7 . Because Jesxis Christ is so
little the subject of their public preaching , in which they so essentially differ from the practice pf the apostles . " Whence does Mr . , Freeston derive his
knowledge of the " public preaching " of the Unitarians ? Assuredly , they do not preach Christ K in his way , if he preach as unscriptnraliy as he writes ; but let him know that they do jir / each Christ crucified , which Trinitarians do not and cannot * and further that
they make it their just boast that their mode of preaching Christ is as congenial , as that of the selfnamed otthodox is repukive , to the plan of apostolic preaching . — Hard fate of Socinlaiis ! ' If they
keep back their dodtnne , they do not preach Christ ; if they bring it forward , they degrade him . €€ 8 . Because they appear to lay another foundation for pardon and eternal life than what the
scriptures recommend . ' ' Where does this appear ? Unitarians lay no , other basis of salvation than the Jove and . mercy of God , revealed arid cpnfiriifed by Christ . They plead guilty indeed to the charge of fjoiclitig ^ rtpentance
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420 Rfcietb . —Free . ston against Sifcinians . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 520, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/44/
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