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Letter of Remonstrance to Dr . Stevens *
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To the Rev . Dr . Stevens , Lecture )* , St . M trgarefs , Westminster . ReV . Sir , Feb . to : 1815 .
^ TN a volume of Sermons published JL by you last year , upon our duty to our God , our neighbours and ourselves , there are these words , Ser . I . p . 27 .
•* ' Infidelity is a want of faith , it is either ail absolute departure from the living God , in a total disbelief of his revelations , or a refusal of assent to the Divinity of Jesus Christ ; and consequently to his being the all-sufficient and meritorious atonement for
the sins of mankind ; this fatal delusion arising from pride of heart and the , love of sin , strikes at the very root of all that is sacred in religion and morals . " I will not , Rev . Sir , follow you through the three succeeding pages ( truly a dismal journey without glimmer of Christian charity to cheer me
on my way ) but confining myself to the above passage ; I will ask , what do you think will be the feelings of the charitable and virtuous part of your subscribers , when they learn that they have contributed their mite towards spreading this dark account of thousands of their fellow-creatures ,
amongst whom , there is a fair proportion of both sexes , and of all ages , who faithfully fulfil all the duties of domestic life ; antrthat there are to be found in their number , good neighbours , loyal subjects , upright senators , fair trading merchant * , honest ,
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Sir , - Feb . ' -lh lS . ^ ACCIDENTALLY meeting witb the Monthly Repository for
January last , I was particularly PJ" - with a communication , entitled "K " sons for rejecting the Theology System of Calvin . 17 Now , though 1 1 have long had a strong bias to tn ^ system , supposing it bottom ^ u Christianity , yet the first partrf y <^ correspondent ' s essay has made doubt whether ; as he says he »»
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industrious , contented mechanics , and start not when I add Rev . Sir ! 11 Faithful labourers in the vineyard of Christ , What will be the grief of those Reverend Fathers of the Church who find that they have subscribed to a
book which stigmatizes as proud of heart , and xovers of sin , those who rest all their hopes of being accepted by God upon their strictly believing the doctrines , and following the
example of Jesus Christ ? and what will be their opinion of that she pherd , who instead of leading his flock into fertile meadows of charity and truth , brings them to batten on the filthiest weeds of malignity and error ?
You cannot , 'Sir , have in view the Christian hope of-removing our fatal delusion , because you must be aware , that abuse may disgust , but cannot
convince . Whatever then may be your motive for thus holding us up as objects of abhorrence to our Fellow-Christians , prudence alone might have dictated to you , that unworthy mean *
generally defeat their own intentand past experience might have taught you , that the use of unfair weapons by some of your predecessors , has excited a suspicion , that they found more noble means of defence
unable to support their cause , that abuse was only resorted to , when argument had failed . I bid you farewell , Sir , with a fervent wish for your increase in Christian humility ; for although I cannot
think so malignly as to suppose , that you have fallen into error from a love of sin , yet am I reluctantly obliged to say , that by presuming to jvidfg your fellow-creatures , you have acted iu direct contradiction to God ' s comniands , and thus too'plainly indicated
your pride of heart , 1 VERAX .
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sages in his early treatises with regard to which , after further inquiry , he saw reason to alter his opinion ; also "fij throw additional light whereever it may be wanted ; and to correct such errors , as from haste ,
inadvertence , or other causes the Doctor may have fallen into . In regard to his Chemical works , I think it would be advisable to notice the corresponding terms used in the improved nomenclator , and to state the nature of the differences between the mew and
the old systems : also , to annex to his Histories of Electricity and of Vision , Light and Colours , a compendium of such discoveries as have been made in these branches of philosophy since the histories were composed .
Humbly submitting these considerations , I remain , yours , &c . •!> ( jr .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/16/
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