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their jfellotfr-unitaritos need not be at slo& for words . There are Unitarian Jews , Uiiitftri&n Mahometans , Unitariafr Chrfetiams , Unitarian Baptists , arid -according to Mr . Ffend { p . 350 ) , Unitarian Calvinists . In a Christian country , the , Unitarian means of course ah Unitarian Chris ^ tian ; if no other appellation be assumed , it is taken for granted that the Unitarian resta on the broad ground of the belief and worship of
One God , the Father , one God in one Person , and that he hag no wish to evade the general opinion thai this faith tfteludes the noti-belief of the deity or semi-deity of Jesus Christ and of the d ^ ctrinea thence ar ising .
Unitarian is no dbubt a general term , but its generality is by most Unitarians accounted its excellence . In proportion to > ltd extensiveness , it is ferourabte to chatitj r . It leaves a happy latitude of judgment upon miaor Chfitft&n pornfs . It admits under
itSocinranS , if such there be , modern Aridns , Sabelliaiis , and if not Calvinistt yet such as , like Mr " . Frend , hold some notion of A 4 driei * ieftt \ vhich they are not anxious to explain . Then , it may be replied , * it dates' wot answer the use of language , which is to define . But it ig definite to the extent
that it goes , and : it is for thrift that choose to mark themselves out more strictly , to employ other and additional phraseology . There is a hardship in requiring atjy body of Christians to denominate themselves by negative , exclusive and
prescriptive epithets . An Unitarian may well be in charity with all his brethren * but an ^ w ^ Trinitariau , an 4 n / t-Satisfactionist , and the like , carries defiance on his brow . Unitarian w ft positive term , it denotes a precise faith , and it implies , without expresln
* R it , unbelief in whatever is < oiitrary to that faith . He that believes that God is owe Person , di&bcJieves all that is involved in the doctrine of ?" . Trinity ; how much is involved '& that doctrine every one must judge f himself , nor is it likely that men ' s w — w ^ " ' •* ' ^ » w-r m - ^ j MMTLm ^ - * » W m * i » % s * «/ m ^ * **^ J m . m »^»
jud gments in this particular will ever be confbripable to any one standard , ^ Uch Unitarians : rs choose to be a <* igi ) Sited [ by terms Which signify ^ ° re than their belief in one Divine ?*? f whether the proper hwmtoity | I hrist or hid pre-e ^ tistence , the l 0 &ement or the non-atonemeut / are
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at liberty to select or to invent their own appellatives * but let not the Ur > ttari ? Mis as such be called upon to map out and to give names to the various sections ofrthe Christian . world . Common usage , in agreement with common sense , supposes that where there is faith in One Gody the Father ; as the only divine person , there will be no faifh in what have been called the offices of Three Divine Persons ,- as exhibited in the doctrines of Election .
Atonement , preternatural Sanctification , &c . but if any Unitarian receives any of these doctrines , in any sense , he is at liberty not only Xo do so , hut also to take a name which signifies how far , and explains for what reason , he dissents from the majority of his Unitarian , and is in agreement with his Trinitarian ,
brethren . Greeds have bee a in all ages the plague of conscience 3 and it is no unimportant consideration for such as wish to implicate a creed in a word , whether they may not be unconsciously providing an instrument of
inquisition , a bar to free inquiry and Christian fellowship , or even a weapon of persecution against such as claim the birtii-riglit of God ' s heritage , independence of private judgment ancf liberty of worship . Hackney Road , Aufc . 3 , 1815 . / ¦ « i
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Mr . JRrehd , on the 7 W ? n Vnitarian * 483
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i l l Sir , WHATEVER may have been the cause of Mr . BelshanVa embarrassment , I am sorry that he ever laboured , arid still continues to labour und ^ r it . 1 iis tirade against the Arians is conveyed in ratlier harsh language ; but when his metaphor !! are reduce'd to their plain meaning , tney imply only , tliat ae , Mr . Belsliarn , and the Ariaiis , ' are of opposite opinion * with respect to the office * and mode of existence of our Saviour ; but they do not "in tJje least go to induce me to believe that the Arians have not as t ^ ood a right to the title
of Unitarians as himself . They both believe that our Saviour is a created being , and are consequently far removed from tho ^ e who believe him to foe uncreated .
With respect to the Unitarian £ uod Society , 1 shall not enter into Mr . Rdsham ' s speculations upon it . If its fiighly respected missionaries , named by Mr . Beluhmn , confined theni-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/19/
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