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he anticipates ; and the same may be said of many other subjects ; but I trust Unitarian Missionaries will always have the judgment and prudence to guard against the evil feared by the subscriber to the Fund . After all , is it possible to avoid , sometimes ,
shocking and terrifying serious Christians , holding the vulgar creed ? I hare known this done by a faithful statement of the doctrines of the divine unity , the humanity of Christ , and 1 he free unpnrchased mercy and grace of God . Yet J have seen such shocks
subside , and the ears of the persons so alarmed , instead of being finally closed against a Missionary , have been fully opened , and they have received : ls divine truth what at first greatly terrified them . What 1 most dread
U having hearers who are too indifferent to be either alarmed or pleased . If a Missionary is to avoid every subject that will shock and terrify some serious Christians , he will labour to little purpose . Your correspondent further asks , " Does it not furnish low-minded ,
irreligious men , who will not examine the scriptures , and who care nothing about missionary preaching , with on authority for scoffing , and introduce th e maxim of * no devil' into ale-houses and other places of like character , where it will be esteemed a licence to ?
v ^ e To this I answer , our rejec-| «» oii of the popular notions concerning the Devil and his influence is cjenef % known , before a Missionary enkrs publicly on the subject , aiid . is
More likely to be abused before a proper statemeut is given and the subject well guarded , than afterwards : "or can 1 see how the rejection of those I ^ ions should give a licence to vice . " hat . subject is there that will not toniiij i some law-minded , irreligious
« > with a pretext for scoffing ,-Sec ? ' jutare we on this account to * avoid ( lechiriiig- the whole truth , or opposing ; Pernici M ous error ? If we proceed with
j due prudence , we may lament , but Vtj CJ * nuot blame ourselves for the | < luct ofsv \ ch persons , who will be equal ly likely to abuse the doctrines tree grate , of 1 he infinite goodness ^ merc y of Cod , and of limited j ^ fchmeiit ; but are we therefore to "t-eal thetQ doctrines , lest ungodly J NhouUl turn the prace of God jf <> "cenlio ufiiioss ? Is it not enough e correctl state and r > uard ( hem
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as far as we can from abuse . After all I have not found preaching on the subject in question productive of the effects intimated . 1 agree with your correspondent that it is ** dangerous to pull down , rather than build up the faith of the common people . ' Those who have beard me most , know it is my plan to lead my hearers to right views of Christian truth , before I attempt to expose the fallacy of the opposite notions : indeed I conceive the latter , to
be in a good measure done so far s& the former is effected . Yet , as the apostles not O 2 ily preached one God , but declared they are no gods which are made with hands , so I conceive
we ought , with prudence and candour , to expose and refute error as well as plainly declare the truth , especially by shewing that the language of scripture does not express such doctrines as the popular system
supposes it to express , and which are incompatible with the " sole , all-perfect , and infinitely just and merciful g-overnrnent of Almighty . God . I remain * , Sir , Respectfully yours , R / WRIGHT . i ^ m
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Mr . Little on the Title Reverend . 425
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^ Sir , IN some of your pages last year , which I have not now an opportunity of referring to , there appeared a sort of defence of the practice cf certain religious teachers receiving and giving each other the title of Itevenmd . The arguments ( if they deserved the name ) seemed to me
excessively weak and inconclusive , and quite unworthy of the rational and
philosophic principles which distinguish your publication . The blind attachment of the professed adherents of misnamed orthodoxy , to the puerile
absurdities and unscriptural practices of \ he apostate CYmrch of Rome , gives me but little concern . It is what mav be expected until the prophetic denunciation be fulfilled , mid " the whore is made desolate rucl naked
and burnt with fire , " tree Kev . xvii , 16 . . Hut that the enlightened friends of primitive truth , the intrepid opposers of prevailing corruptions lL ( 'hristianity , tiie avo > voil worshi p * of only one ( lo <\ 7 c . \ t : n the Father , should wish to retain such a childish , uiiscripturnl ainl antirlmstiau appenc .: i < : c to their ura ^ us ? p ^ - vrjre £ m * h xm
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/25/
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