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of heavenly hue and design ; and these different shades ( even as diflbrent colours please different visions ) seem formed to recommend religion in aii her different complexions , all beautiful , though not all exactly the same ; all lan ^ ii . g * under a
general description , though Dot exactly similar . The features of the Chrisiiau g ; aces may he reflected upon by the vailaws temperaments of the iiuul j they may receive a colouring * from warmth , or a colder line from the languor of natural disposition ; hut they are all Christian graces still in the purview of that charity which is the bond and seal of all their excellencies . "" Pp . 34 , 35 .
" . ¦ Apply these remarks to religious ktiowje .- ^ e ii /« > d perceptions and instead of coiideninisjg" ^ Lade * »* f charactci because tuey be da : !; ev or lighter lLan votn
< m n , consider them to he varioj dlrersn sole coicrcSf as the diiFereiit reflections oi Ijic same great li ^ it or * heaven , in a different petition with respect to llie object . Our very infirmities are allied nearly 1 . 0 our he&t arsd greatest qualities ; and you may as well wish to stiiks tile moisture from
the rain , ana yet to ycHlva its fertilizing * finality , as you v / euld wi&L to have qualifies of virtue and worth here , without some tendency to defect or exuberance . Among © iirselres are many minds and shades of
perception . With a graver and a deeper shade of virtue ttian others we fire expected , inwardly as well as outwardly , to be invested 5 but if there be differences only 'which are not essential between us , let us consider them all as instrumental to what
is good ; and instead of censuring- or reflecting- upon one another for different modes of pursuing- the same g-ood ends , Jet us shew a pattern of what the world is unhappily , in many great things , much in want , a spirit of true Christian charity , which , instead of setting up the idol of its own particular affections as the infallible
test ot what is excellent and true , takes into consideration circumstances , passions , perceptive powers , particular habits , and , in all things , is desirous to direct us to harmony , to peace and to patient endurance , rather than to domineer over others , to dictate our own opinions , or to trust presumptuously to > our own right hand and ability . ' * Pp . 38 , 39 .
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Art . VII . A Letter to the Right Rev Thomas Burgess , D . D . F . R . S . and I <\ A . S . Lord Bi $ hop of St . David s ; containing Remarks on his . Lordship ' s Introduction to the Doctrine of the Trinity , and to the Alhansian Creed , By a Clergyman of the Church of England . 8 vo . pp . 92 .
Rodwell . 1815 . THE object of this Letter , as stated by the writer , is to prove that the doctriae of the Trinity & uvt t > o
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clearly revealed in the Scriptu res a * to warrant Bishop Burgess and the Athaiiasian creed in damning surh *• cIouol or disbelieve . But , in fact it proves a great deal more , viz . that the
doctrine of the Trinity could not have been leMevvd hy the Sacred Writers , ar 1 \ hnt it -wants support from the e : riv Fathers .
The Htiihor is evidently " a clergyman of the church of England : ' hejs also a scholar , a good writer and a well-informed theologian ; and what is of more value ,, he is a Christian in spirit . Tie professes not to side with the
Unitarians , he avowedly dissents from Bishop Burgess and the Athanasianshe v . cmltf , we suppose , call himself a Seeker . Good-tempered Christians oi
every party will be pleased with his Letter 5 bigots will blush , at least they can scarcely rave whilst they read if . The clergyman has " taken the unusual liberty of sending- a copy to the Bench of Bishops . " We wish we had the means of conveying one into every church , chapel and meeting-house , throughout the kingdom .
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SOO Review . *—Clergyman ' s Letter to Burgest .
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Art . VI 1 L—An A ttew . pt to exp lain the Term Unitarian , occasioned by a Note in Dr . Gregoiy ' s Work on the Evidences , Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion , in a Letter to that Gentleman . By John Fullugar . 8 vo . pp . CO . 2 s . 1814 . Eaton .
IT is the opinion of this author that the term Unitarian properly belongs to all Anti-Trinitarians . He censures the application of the terra Socinian to modern Unitarians . In the Letter are arguments in behalf of UmtariaiHsm in general .
Mr . Fullatfar finds fault with our review of Mr . HugheVs sermon before the Southern Unitarian Society ( see vol . viii . p . 273 ) . On a revision of that article and a reperusal of the sermon , we cannot acknowledge the
justice of this author ' s animadversion * . Assuredly , we never " took alarm ' at the sentiments of the sermon , or " condemned the drift of it" or " decried 1 1 it . Mr . Fullagar may think that the " drift" of the discourse is
not to uphold the hypothesis of oen Mordecai ; but , he cannot deny tbw that hypothesis is maintained mJh or that the critical principles of t » whole sermon are brought to * # * upon the hypothesis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 590, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/58/
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