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that short question , What think ye 0 { Christ ? If the readers of Dr . Enfield ' s . Sermons expect to meet in them with a complete system of Calvinistic divinity , they will not find it-: but if they look for truly evangelical discourses , i . e . practical and moral
instructions , grounded upon- truly o-ospel principles , and connected with gospel promises , they will not be disappointed . Bereus cannot surely have read them , or he would not have requested any of your correspondents to send you the above plain state * ment . I am , Sir , Your constant reader , VINDEX .
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any author of that time , expressions glowing with such delight and enthusiasm at the increasing spread of rational sentiments of Christianity . * These I know were the genuine effusions of his excellent heart . No man
living had less of coldness and indifference about him . With regard to Mr . Chalmers ' s opinion , I wonder that Bereus should quote it , since he very well knows that it is the fashion among the reputed orthodox to speak of the discourses of the Socinians as
mere moral preaching- What is said by Mr . C . of Dr . Enfield , would equally have been applied to any other minister of the denomination . The remarks in answer to Bereus
iu the Repos . for July , however true they may be in themselves , cannot be applied to the case of Dr . Enfield and the congregation herewith whom he was connected . If — means to
say it was in the least degree probable , that " by preaching all he knew our late excellent minister " would have deprived himself of his situation and support , " he asserts what is not correct , and what I am certain , if Dr . Enfield were alive , he would be the
very first to deny . My worthy ancestor , Dr , John Taylor , has recorded the following character of the congregation at Norwich in the Dedication of his Paraphrase and Notes on the Romans . ** ' You scorn to practise the unchristian methods of some , who to
support a favourite sentiment , foment animosities and divisions , and discourage men of probity and learning . You allow your ministers to read the Bible and speak what they find there / 7 So far from " seeing no rational ground of support , ' he says in another place ,
" It is n % y honour and pleasure , as well as duty , to serve you in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ ; and your kind acceptance and due improvement of my honest and well-intended labours is the greatest encouragement I desire . Your affections and
friendly regards are in fact the whole world to mei" Now Dr . Taylor was esteemed one of the greatest heretics of his time , and it was not very likely that the same society which had accepted and encouraged his labours , and had afterwards enjoyed those of Mr . Samuel Bourn , and Mr . George
* Sec also Mr , Turner ' s Memoir of Dr Enfield , in his Hist , of the Warrington Act * cray .
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Character of Dr . EnfielcTs Sermons * 4 &I
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Norwich * Aug . 15 , 1815 . Sir , INHERE are some remarks on the ^ character of Dr . Enfield as a
Christian minister , which appeared in the Repository for April and July , in reply to which I beg your insertion of the following letter : —Your correspondent Bereus , after a quotation from a small volume of Sermons published by Dr . Enfielcf , in 1769 , regrets
" the small proportion of what is exclusively Christian in this volume , " and infers that " the preacher was more sensible of the advantage than the necessity of revelation . ' * I consider this as a heavy charge against one of the most excellent nrien I ever
knew , and having enjoyed the advantage of Dr . Enfield ' s public ministrations and his private intercourse , I am happy in this opportunity of bearing my testimony to his zeal for scriptural truth , and his unshaken
conviction , to the last moment of his life , of the absolute necessity as well as advalitage of divine revelation . Bereus forms his opinion from a small volume ° f Sermoris , published at an early period of Dr . Enfield s ministerial life , and probably g ^ v en to the world before his religious creed was so firmly fixed
* a it was during the latter part of it ; I found my opinion on a regular attendance on his ministry , and on that personal intercourse with him which I shall always think it an honour and ?? adyantage to have enjoyed . But
'fyour correspondent thinks tha £ Dr . infield viewed the progress of Unijarianism with coldness or indifference , 1 would refer him to a Sermon from which there are some extracts in the £ epos . for May , 1812 , and I will defy "in * to produce from the writings of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/27/
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