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the friends of truth , opposed as ^ they are by the whole power of Church and state , and countenanced only by the self-devotion whkh is supplied by the energy of virtue . It is even probable that my work , which could soon be ready for the
press , would leave no small loss to be sustained by its author . Our body is small , and the learned in it , who alone could be expected to be much interested , are still less numerous , and not rich . The orthodox would not be eager to give countenance to naked truth .
I wish to inquire , through the Repository , if the author might depend on sufficient support to shelter him from running any risk . He would cheerfully offer his labour on the altar of the God of truth . The price of the book would be from three to five shillings .
How it can be ascertained whether I can be so protected , it is not within my power to advise . You and your readers must be far more competent to jadge . Mr . Hunter , bookseller , St . Paul ' s Church Yard , may be consulted , and is the proper person to
whom any plan may be proposed , by such as can engage for its execution . For myself , I frankly confess , that I ' can contribute to our great cause no more than my labour , of which I have always given much without hope of reward . It is now left to the friends
of pure Christianity to decide whether they will leave the boasted argument from the Greek Article to maintain its triumph unopposed . Nothing has yet been done with effect against it . JLet shame fall on me , if after professing to demonstrate its nullity , I fail in the attempt . CHARLES LLOYD .
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Dr . Lloijd on the " Greek Article "—Mr . Yates on the Term Unitarian . 709
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man : the other is the chief support of animal life , and the source of all the bodily powers . " And here , says a good writer on the subject , " we cannot 'help awfully contemplating this living power : the genius of man has invented pulleys and levers to accelerate motion : it has enabled him
to anticipate all the mechanical helps which he has found in the mechanism of the human body . But compared to the lowest creature , animated with the living principle , the proudest works of his hands are but as dead
matter . In the most perfect machines no new power is acquired ; if there is any acquisition of force , there is a proportionate loss of time ; but in muscular contraction , which is the immediate source of power in animals , there is a real increase of power without any loss of time . "
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London , Nov . 9 , 1815 . Sir , fjnilE argument in favour of the 1 Deity of Christ , founded on tit-e
week Article , has been occasionally for four or rive years , under my consideration . It is exceedingly vaunted , especially since Dr , MiddJeton has bestowed upon it so much labour , and
supported it by a ponderous volume . His purpose has been answered , and he is rewarded by an Indian bish * oprick . I am prepared to shew that the argument is totally unfounded , and that all the learning called to . its aid by Middleton , Wordsworth , &c . is altogether wasted . This attempt fails abortive like all former ones in the same cause , and comes in proof of
the rottenness of the cause itself which it is meant to support ; except so far as it has elevated to riches and honours its . abortive supporters . As far as such a subject is capable of demonstration , I can demonstrate that the new doctrine of the Greek Article fails
to prove the Divinity or Deity of Christ . My recompense will , of course , be very different from that of those who have profited so largely by maintain * ing the other side of the question .
Nothing can be expected on the road which I pursue but the pleasure derived from the defence of truth 5 and rt is an astonishing phenomenon in the history of man that such a complete triumph has been obtained by
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Glasgow , Nov 7 , 1815 . Sir , f 11 HE indulgent notice , which has JL been taken of my paper on the
term Unitarian by several writers in your valuable Repository , induces me to send you a few lines for the purpose of explaining more fully my sentiments upon the application of the name Socinian to those Christians ,
who assert the simple humanity of Christ , By the expressions , employed in my former letter , I intended , in the first place , to intimate my doubts
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/45/
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