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want and every feint vestige of liberty , constitutes a spectacle equally new and tremendous . 44 Even the tenets of Mr . Paine himself are yet less novel in theory , and yet less pernicious in practice , than the counsels of those sanguinary fanatics , who would unblushingly
and unfeelingly rouse the unsparing sword of foreign potentates , and point it without provocation , without precedent , without any other plea than will , without any other end than
tyranny , against the bosoms of Frenchipen contending with Frenchmen alone , upon French ground alone , about French rights , French laws , and French government alone .
. " When it is urged , that princes from their relation to princes bave a common £ ause , and a cause , too , it is meant , virtually paramount to the rights of subjects and of men , the obvious answer is , that they who are
iiot princes have also a commop cause , and the obvious consequence of that answer is , that if they are true to themselves , to their neighbours , and to their posterity , confederacy is to rise up against confederacy , and deluge the world with blood .
" If indeed the threatened crusade ofrwffUm despots should be attempted , it will , in my opinion , he an outrageous infringement upon the laws of nations ; it will be a savage conspiracy against the written and the unwritten rights of mankind ; and , therefore , in the
sincerity of my soul , I pray the righteous Governor of the Universe , the Creator efmen and the King of kings , I pray HIM to abate the pride , to assuage the malice , and to confound all the devices of AI * JL the parties , directly or
indirectly leagued in this complicated scene of guilt and Jiorror I This insult upon the dignity of human nature itself ! "This treason against the majesty of ( rod ' s own image , rational and immortal man "
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^ r An Exposition of the Sixth arid of the Twentieth Article of the Church of England * May 1 , 1815 .
—— every system of latitude is , tnsome particular or othery exceptionable to euerjf one ^ but the particular person who invents it for his own use . It is not possible this should be the case , if the compilers of the articles had really intended any latitude ^ or the laws concerning subscription had
left room for it . Bjlackbcrnb . npiHE sixth article of the Church X of England is entitled , Of tU Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures ftr Salvation : and the former part of ) ti » as follows :- — . » i
" Holy scripture contametn <«' things necessary to salvation : f ° im whatsoever is not read therein , nor may be proved thereby , is » ° t ?* required of any man , that it shoma be believed as an article of the Jam *>
or be thought requisite or neeessarj to salvation . In the name of the w « £ Scriptures we do understoo d ^ W canonical books * of the Old and
? These book ** &c . are enumerated * the remainder of the sixth article .
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Essex Street , May ] , 1815 . Sir , DO not very well know what re-I ply to make to Mr . Frend ' s remarks upon the restricted sense in
which the word Unitarian is used by me in a late publication . This word , which in modern practice is vaguely used to expxesu every class of xeligionirfts , from the Athauasian wlio declares , " there are not three Gods
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% 7 & Mr . Bdsiianis Reply to Mr . Frmd , on the term " Unitarian : '
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but one God , " to the Mahometan who professes that " there is no God but God , ' * I have distinctl y stated that I use in the sense in which it was used by Dr . Lardner , Dr . Priest ley , Mr . Lindsey , and other eminent Unitarians of the last century . To cati
Ws sjgnm on ot tfte ^ vord I have adhered throughout . And till your learned correspondent has obtained an act of parliament to compel all persons to employ the term Unitarian according to his definition of it and
no other , I mean to continue to use the term in the same definite and restricted sense y and am contented to share with those great and venerable men all the obloquy which attaches to this practice , I aiji indeed threatened that I shall be left in an "
inconsiderable minority . " It may be so : but I am not alarmed at the predicted effect . I have never courted the multitude . And ever since I began to think for myself it has always been my lot , like that of many wise ? and better men , to be found in what
has been generally esteemed , an "inconsiderable minority . " I am , Sir , Your obedient servant , T . BELSHAM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/14/
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