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are desirous of shifting it off their shoulders . Let them if they please rank themselves under the general term Unitarians , but those who simply believe in the humanity of Christ ,
and in the unpurchased love of the Almighty , ought not to abandon it for another which to my ears is extremely barbarous ; and , if I mistake not , in the north , where Mr . Y . has justly acquired so high a reputation , liable to be mistaken .
I have a still stronger and , in my opinion , a much more important reason why the believers in the pre-existence of Christ and the other doctrines usually attached to it , should not be left in the exclusive possession of the term Unitarian . I do not mean to speak with the smallest disrespect of this class of Christians , in which I
am proud and grateful to reckon some of my best and steadiest friends in the worst times , but , Sir , if the current goes on for the next twenty years with as much force and velocity as it has the last , theVe will , probably , be
scarcely a remnant of the sect remaining , and then , with the sect , we shall lose , next to the term Christian , the most appropriate denomination by which the worshiper of the true God can be designated . J . J .
P . S . In answer to a ** Young Scholar and no Middle-Man , ' p . 69 S , allow me to say that for many years I was a constant attendant at Salters ' - Hall , and during that whole period it was impossible to hear Mr . Worthington many successive times
without knowing his religious sentiments on almost every topic : he never scrupled to attack in the same sermon , often in the same sentence , Trinitarians , on the one hand and those who believed in the simple humanity of Christ on the other : he was also a zealous
advocate for the doctrine of an atonement , scrupling not to say he had drawn it in with almost his earliest breath , and that by the blessing of God he would continue in it till his death . He had a great abhorrence to the leading tenets of ^ Calvinism ,
Predestination and Reprobation , nor was he less inimical to the philosophical doctrine of Necessity . The writer of this likewise well knows that he was a believer m the existence of a Pevil * for having once hazarded a doubt on the subject he irrecoverably lost that
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warmth of his tutor ' s friendship with which he had been previously honoured . j , j
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74 O Mr * Selsham on Dr . Estlin ' s Defence of him . 0 t
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Essex House , Dec . 6 , 1815 . PERM IT me through the channel of your widely circulating Repository to acknowledge my great obligation to my friend Dr . Estlin , for his kind and spontaneous defence of
my character in his late excellent publication addressed to the Unitarians in South Wales , against the unfounded and ungenerous aspersions of the Bishop of St . David ' s .
My obligation is the greater , as my friend professes to differ from me in some points of considerable importance . " I am , " says he , p . 62 , " not a materialist . " Now this must be understood to imply that Mr . B . is a materialist . And this being asserted
by a friend , after forty years acquaintance , will naturally pass as a wellauthenticated fact . And by ninetynine in a hundred of my friend ' s readers , Mr . B . will be regarded as maintaining , that the intellectual and active powers of the human mind arc
properties of a gross * extended , solid , and essentially inert substance : this is the only idea which the multitude annex to materialism , and if this notion were seriously entertained by Mr . B . it would entitle him to offer
himself as a candidate for the first vacancy in St . Luke ' s Hospital , or for an appropriate habitation in the New Bedlam . Whether I have ever conversed with my worthy and learned friend upon the subject of philosophical materialism , I know not . But that lever
declared myself a materialist in any sense of the word I greatly doubt . For it is a subject upon which it is difficult to form clear ideas : and so far as I do understand it , I hesitate concerning the conclusion .
The simple question between Dr . Priestley and Dr . Price was , whether the principle of perception was separable or inseparable from certain modifications of attraction and repulsion . Dr . Priestlev maintained that they
were inseparable , and Dr . Price that they were never separated . Just as in the case of the two churches of Rome and England , one claims to be infallible , and the other maintains that it never errs . But for this d&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page 746, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/18/
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