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tprials of which it is composed are ijew and modern . " But we venture to suggest , that the refutation will be a sufficient triumph to that Church , and a sufficient punishment to Mr . Lingard , without calling in aid the strong arm of the law . " Courier , Wednesday , May 31 , 1815 .
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the least indebted to either of th excellent characters for any inform ^ tion upon the subject . Indeed I w *' scarcely acquainted with their names or writings , till I had left the Church established by law . But 1 consider it as one of the advantages of my jjf e that the change of my religious senti '
meats led me to an intimate connexion with Mr . Lindsey , and to a considerable degree of intercourse with Dr . Priestley . My knowledge , however , of them must excuse me from approving the use that Mr . Belshatn
Jias made or tneir names ; and though I cannot speak so positively of both as I can of one , 1 really think myself justified in asserting , that they would be among the first to reprobate the argument derived merely from their supposed authority .
But , Sir , the subject that has been brought before you * insignificant a * it is , as . far as Mr . Belsham an < 3 mysdf are concerned , becomes of great importance in another point of view ; and we must be upon our guard against the admission of a precedent , which may hereafter be attended with
Very dangerous consequences . Mr . Belsham has , with a stroke of his pen * driven out of the body of Unitarians , a large number of persons * among whom are myself and several of nijr frieads , who have given decisive proofs of their adherence to the great doctrine , that to us , there is only one
God , the Father * and one Lord , Jesus Christ . This simple faith Mr . Belsham does not think sufficient , and he has assigned other marks by which Unitarians , according to his decision are to be distinguished . Nest , year , perhaps , another Unitarian naay have found out some point in theology
which he-thinks equally necessary or unnecessary to the faith of an Unitetariarj * He may think it necessary that our clrildrei *; should be ¦ spr « kled by way of baptism ; and that adults should have hm peculiar notions , of liberty and n ^ cepsityn 4 other may-insist uoon the ' annihilation out
of ; the d ^ vil . A third Wot the history of the creation an 4 of ths &lJ j as unworthy of these enjjg ^ teitfo tidies . A femxth treat the Bflpfc . ™ Revelations as p . mere rhapsody 01 human invention , an < J iwwfc nf # *" n doing the 6 an > e ; an 4 thus we , who declare that , we make th& xcfipW * the rules of our faith . may < W * l m '
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J 54 Mr . Ftend ' s Reply to Mr . Belsham , on the Terra ** Unitarian . "
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Sir , AM not surprised at the embar-I rassment felt t > y Mr . Belsham on the sense which he has fixed to the term " Unitarian ; " but I do own that his mode of defending it is not what I
should have expected from a person of his well-known penetration and acuteness . Let us suppose that the Bishop of London had replied in a similar manner : I use the term ( we will suppose his lordship to have said ) in the same manner as my Lord Bishop of , Dr . and the
Rev . Mr . , have done before me , and till an Act of Parliament is passed to the contrary , 1 shall , in spite of any remonstrances to the contrary , continue to speak of the Unitarians in the same manner . Is this argument ? Is this propriety ? Mr . Belsham would have replied to his Lordship .
< c Sic volo ; sic jubeoj stat pro rafione voluntas . " These are words , my Lord , that may be used indeed by aji individual , but he must r * ot hereafter pretend to appeal to reason in any discussion .
Mr . Belsham states , tfyat h $ uses the term " Unitarian" in the same manner as it was done by Dr . Lardner , Mr . Lindsey and Dr . Priestley , To this statement I must beg leave to object , being convinced that it ; will
not hold with respect to two out of the three , and as to the third , 1 have my doubts , whether even Dr . Priest * ley uses the term Unitarian according to Mr . Belsham ' s plan . To settle 1 hit } point might lead to a discussion as frivolous and as useless as that into
the opinions of trie early fathers respecting the person and character of our Saviour : and , if it were true that such was the opinion of the three above-mentioned and much-esteemed
writers , I am sufficiently well acquainted with the body of Unitarjarjs , to ami in tbat tjfiey . would- not bow even , to such authority . 1 became an Unitarian , as cUdlser veral of my friends , without being in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/26/
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