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wards the Arians is , to s&y the least of it , harsh and unwarran ted , and I am sure that it is not countenanced by a g ^ at number of Unitarians , who «^ f *» rppin *? with them in the opinion
of the pre-existence of Chri st , are still far , very far , from confounding together all classes of the ., Arians , or supposing that any one of that denomination is to be confounded or associated nearly with the Trinitarian .
For my own part , I canro ot consent to be thus separated from my Arian brethren , with many of wl 10 m I may p robably be more united ii i religious sentiment than with our g ( > od friend Mr . Belsham . He agrees -with me in the belief of the unity , ar id the disbelief of the pre-existence : but we differ in our opinions of the office and
character of our Savioui r . Many Arians agree with us boi h in the unity , and with me in th : is view of our Saviour ' s office and character . Consequently there are thi ree points , in two of which I Unite with Mr . Belsham , and in two wit h Arians . It is to me a greater sat it ; faction to find out points of union tl lan of difference , and the Christian i -eligion is intended to comprehend ^ vithin its pale a large body , whom th e didactic systems of too many Christis ms would exclude from it .
A correspondent , who sij gns himself J . terms my suppositi on , that in imitation of Mr . Relsha m other Unitarians may wish still fa rther to contract the pale of Unitari . u ) ism , absurd—and the enumeration of particulars invidious and uncl iaritable . With respect to the absurdit y , I leave that to others to judge—th e charge of envy and uncharitablenesi > is of a more serious nature , and Ii irotest t do not see on what it is found ed . The
particulars I enumerated are < > pinion 3 , held by several persons , for whom I entertain very great respect . They are readers of your Repositi > ry , and will see only , that I sei 2 . ed the opportunity of expressing th tat pub-Jjcl y , which they have fr < 3 quentJy heard from me in private ; namely , that too much stress is laid oi i certain opinions , on which there is gr * eat room w mutual difference and mm tual concessions . Whatever Mr . J . mi iy think , Jnese points have not unfr < equeutly been chatted over without the ( east « « breach of friendship , or the h 3 ast idea « nvy or uucharitabkuejjr * tbeinff ia
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the mind of any of the party then engaged in social intercourse . After the imputation of suc a qualities to me , surely he ought not to think
himself entitled to question me : for of what consequence is "the opinion of a person , who professes to be a Christian , and yet is invidious and uncharitable ? I remPiin , &c . W . FREND .
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Mir . AsplavuTg secontl Reply to Pastor , on the Term Unitarian . 6 S $ J
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Mr . AsplancTs Second Reply to Pastor on the Term Unitarian . Hackney Road , Oct . 23 , 1815 . PA STOH begins to breathe an angry spirit . The question
between him and me might surely be discussed without , any impeachment of understanding or insinuation of disingenuousness or invidious appeal to honour' on either side . I cannot help suspecting that Pastor would not have signed his proper name to some expressions of his last ( pp . 556—558 ) .
( My quotation ( p . 479—483 ) was long / but Pastor ' s answer to the paper which contained it may possibly convince some readers that it was not 1 irrelevant . ' It appeared to me that it might be of some little use in the
controversy now carrying on in the Monthly Repository concerning the term Unitarian ; and although much of it relates to the term * Socinian , ' I could not consider that part as foreign from the present discussion , because I knew that such writers as
Pastor who objected to the term Unitarian would continue that of Socinian . ' This writer , indeed , at the outset disclaims the use of this term , but before he concludes declares himself pretty nearly reconciled to it : on
what grouuds shall be presently seen . What is it Pastor complains of ? That a term is taken by those to whom it does not belong > No , but that "/ Sbcinians" use a term which belongs to them , but which belongs also to
others . Strange complaint ! it might be set up on both sides , and thus a term acknowledged to have an important meaning , be put under proscription . But by taking to ourselves the term Unitarian , we intimate that it is
exclusively ours ! Far from it ; in the * long * quotation which I gave from a publication which Pastor quoted from memory , I for one take pains to shew that the appellation has a Catbolic aud not a partial or exclusive
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 639, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/39/
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