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the sacred rights of conscience can no longer be openly infringed . It is in vain you invoke the aid of penal laws , to check the necessary consequence of those principles , on which you vindicate your own secession from the Church of Rome . Your first
principle , that * the JBible , and the Bible only , is the religion of Protestants , has been too extensively diffused , to allow a co-ordinate authority to any human articles or creeds . Our ancestors , at the Reformation , accomplished a great , though necessarily an imperfect work : but the importance of their services must be estimated ,
rather by the example set us , than by any of the dogmas which they rashly ventured to prescribe . " The author , through several pages , with pertinence and force of application , contrasts the sentiments ahd spirit of Dr . Peckard , the Dean of Peterborough , of Bishop Lowth , of theBishd ' p of Carlisle , Dr . Edmund Law , and Dr . John Law , Bishop of Elphin , with those expressed by his Lordship of St . David ' s , on the subject of religious liberty and free
inquiry . Towards the close he declares his confidence that " the time is fast approaching , when every remnant of intolerance shall be expunged , not only from our penal , but our civil code : when the only competition let ween Protestants and Papists ,
between Dissenters and Churchmen , may be , who shall best inculcate the genuine benevolence of the gospel , and advance the welfare of the human race . " He then adds , " In their zeal for the promotion of these essential duties , Unitarians have not yielded to any of their Christian brethren : in
v wtue and knowledge they are at east equal : in candour and liberality perhaps superior to the most . " A free admonitory address to the "ishop finishes this sensible and iib-** & tract . " Be more just and gene'ous , then , my lord , in your
conclusio ns , and , tempering your zeal with discretion , admit the benevolent spirit ° i the gospel among the essentials of llc Christian scheme . Ceasing to ar ~ ^ Jgn Unitarians as apos ta t es and bias - — - - ¦ - -v - — - ¦ - _~ ™ u - ^^ ^ . ^ - ^^ -v ^ p - ~ ig —i f- ^ b ^ «¦¦ ^ ^ p ^ ^* ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ** ^^^
Pmnersy endeavour to emulate their Reluct in inculcating the moral preepts of religion , as the firmest bar-^ of the Church and state . And ™* lH their supposed errors to the ^ y of the SupaEME Being , direct
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your chief attention to encourage the practice of virtue , to check the progress of corruption , and to discountenance every description of profigacy and vice / 1 In a short Postscript , the author notices the Bishop of St . David ' s " Brief Memorial , " published after the Charge : which he considers as a renewal of his lordship ' s very singular attack on the Unitarians , with even greater violence : and as completely
failing , in every other respect , than in * ' rescuing himself from any clnim to the approbation bestowed on his episcopal brethren , for withholding their opposition to the Unitarian Bill : ' unless it was'his real purpose , by provoking a full and fair discussion of the
nature and objects of the Christian Revelation , to stimulate the advocates of free inquiry to new exertions , and eventually to promote the cause of truth . " That this , at least , will be the effect of your recent publications , " addressing the bishop , he adds , «* I
cannot entertain a moment ' s doubt Your professional rank , your learning and reputation , must of course excite attention , whilst your pretended demonstrations are feeble and
inconclusive , and your arguments far , better adapted to the state of Christendom in the tenth century , or to the , meridian of Spain at the present moment , than to the enlightened age and country in which we live , "
The author waves enlarging in animadversions on the " Brief Memorial , " because " it had already received a full and satisfactory Heply from , Mr . Belsham , " of which we had prepared a fall account , which the growth of our pages warns us that we must delay till the next Number .
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Review . —* Cornish Unitarian Controversy . 375 A
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Art . IV . —The Divinity of Christ and the Necessity of his Atonement , vindicated from the Cavils < f Mr . Thomas Prout and his Associates , By Samuel Drew , St . Austell , Cornwall . 8 vo . pp . 81 . Cock , Penrjn . 1814 .
Art . V . —A Sequel to the Unitarians ' Serious Appeal to the Great Body of Christian Worshipers : containing Observations on Mr . Samuel Drew ' s Pamphlet , entitled «• The Divinity of Christ , " &c . Bv Thomas Prout , Flushing , Cornwall . 8 vo . pp . 84 . Rowriug , Exeter-Eaton , High Holborn . 1815 , *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/47/
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