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41 You may continue , if you please , Sir , to miscal us , but we shall reply to you , as Andrew MarveH retorted upon that famous tj ishop Parker , whom I have before introduced to your notice ( p . 256 ) : No man can tell you truth , but h& must presently be a S&civian . * " There are three reasons , Sir , why we disclaim the title of Socinians *
*' 1 . We me not Socinians } we worship not Jesws Christ , though we think we honour him by foil owingf his oft-repea-ted , solemn injunctions , and by worshiping The Father . So far are wt from Sqeiriiaiiisjp , in this particular , that we judge that if the charge of idolatry can be justly broug-ht
against any Christians , of which many of us doubt , it is against such as hold Christ to be a man only and yet pay him divine honours 5 that is , in fact , against Saciniaiis . Can we then be called , with either sense or eqtuty , after the leader of a sect , in wbose religious worship , if he were now living , we could not conscientiously join ?
u . We deem it wrong for Christians to oaU themselves after the name of any fel i owchristiao . This is an acknowledge - ment of human authority in the church ; it is making fathers of brethren , wasters of servant * . One only is our Teacher ; qm $ while oar fellow-christiaii 9 are saying of themselves , some that they are of Paul , others that they are of A pottos , and others
that they are of Cephas ; - \ some that they are of Calvin , others that they * are of Luther , and others that they are of Socinus some that they are of Swedenborg * , others thai they are of Wesley , and others that they arc of Whitiield , —we beg * leave , in conscientious dissent , to say that we are of Christ , f
u 3 . Although we revere Socinus , as a man of great virtue and an cm lent reformer , there is , to our ears , a discordant note , in th * sound of ) iis name ; for he was a j > er * e : » Cutor . He approved * M * d connived at , if he did not prociire , the imprison . ni ^ nt of Francis , Davides , for the hnnesj ayowal . of his opinion that Socinus was inconsistent ,
and went contrary to scripture , in coiiteridr iag- for the worship of * the Man , Cfirijst Jeaim . * Strange , that we should be iaoth reviled for maintaining' the * heresy * of Da fides , and branded with the name of the polemic , Who , as if emulous not only of th # fame of Calvjn as a Re former , but also of his infamy as a persecutor , was accessary
u * As for the meaning of the word , itself , that may shift for itself ; and as for tk * sense andrejison ofitf that has little or nothing to do here : only let it pound Full , and round , and chime rig frt to the humour which is at present agog * . * Serni . VqI / u . p . 332 /' ¦? u Rehtarwl Transp rosed , Pt , ii . pp . 339 , 340 . I 2 mo . 1 W . t "ICcuvi . 12 . "
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to the loading of Davide * with bonds . fto Sir , if we were to adc ^ pt any name as n rtli ! g-io . ua patronymick , it shou / ld be a nftme * t least not blemUhed by intolerance and per . secutitfti . We g ive up to you all the authorl ity belonging to tht ; learning and character
of Soci nil ' s , aud , if we must choose a patrqc renounce the Polish leader , vy'jth hiscourtl ? friend ^ landrata , < a ^ d th eir pro tectors , thie Pi inces Sig-ism und and Bathorf u * , in favour of the poor and ol 4 Ilucgarisq , expiriog witb the language of the Ne ^ v T ^ gtament on his lips , iri a pvi&oa . " J
Now it is for Pastor to Bay , having the ^ whole passage before Iiim , whether the term Socinian , ^ ts commonly used , be not inappropriate apd Lnvj 4 ious > He concedes tbat suob a # are called Soci ^ ans are strictly aiad properly UniUtrians .
Rut tliG term Unitarian embraces more sects than one ' . True , and so does the term Protestant , the term Christian , but who would therefore l $ y either term aside ? The Christians aod P * otestaxits who wish to di ^ tkiguish theinsej . v ^ from their f ^ llaiv-protestaiits a ? , i ( i feHow-cliristians , tiav ^ tbeir proper language for doing ttii ^—^ and the Uiutarians who desire distinction from
~ l u How hard is the language ofS&niius the biographer of tji $ ADti-triBitaruiB * [ Unitariorumy qui Socinianj vulgo audiun t ~] yxjoncerning Francis Davide ^! VotU mod un ? in fiejmijudaizantium dog-mala fclapsws , dnm doetrin ^ m de Chnsto Domino non mvp . ca ndo spargit ; tanquaminnovator ^
a Christophoro Batho ^ ep Tran ^ ly ^ i ^ principe , eondemnaturj atque Devafe iycarcerem conjicitur : uhi anno \ *> 1 % die In Norenjbris / rt 7 ? i senex ^ vita fungitur ? "V , " BihTiotheca dni&Trinitauriorvm t ^ c &d . 12 mo ' . Frje ^ tai . i 04 . i > . 156 .
u " 1 'here is npt , f'f ^ lievej a single Eu £ ~ hih , t nit ^; ian writer , w ^ o re fer * to Scn - iitin s treatment of ^ ari ^ es withpiiJt -lW ^^ reprobation- Consult flfcr . Liadaey ' s Ilistor . View of tk $ XJnitqrian JJoctTifye . Cb , n » - \\ . p . I 54 ic . t
* ' After giving an anirnn ^ ed character « Socin . ua / Ftohpj-t Rob ^ rUpq ( wjjoin I o ? . claitn as a ^ n Unitariap , for I know no other denomination of Chriatian ^ that will own him ) jiajfa ^ lam proud of a ^ frien d of m uj ^ who , plough an exc . esslfe adjgiiir ^ r of the 4
4 octriti « s qrSop jnn ^ h a ^ , npi ? vft ^ ju * faith to boodWink l ^ ifl yirtu ^ , ^ Has at-» cril » ed Faustus Socihus . aa > f ; ' * & $ [ m § Ilia jpeticil ha ^ ivejn l \ iW * M »^* W ? i b > it it hi ^ tb also fwiy exi > ps . e . a ^ V W " * ; JSccles . tieseari-hes * 4 lP . 179 ^ . P- Wri
; ¦«« Jbiji ' iia ' routmip > ;^ inoi ^ <> th ( r Life ot ^ ocmus ^
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482 Mr . Aspland * in Kef ^ Pasior , » n the . Term Unitarian
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 482, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/18/
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