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introduced the Unitavian controversy into that place , and we think that his friends will wish him well out of it . He is a timid , cautious and
conscientious , and therefore inconsistent Trinitarian . The Layman has shewn him , that he is too undecided and modest to take up with success the cause of thoroughpaced orthodoxy . Yet even Mr . Newton does not
scruple to throw out insinuations , and even to advance serious charges against the Unitarians ; all which , however , his present antagonist has boldly met and completely refuted . The controversy will not , we trust , rest here :
the effect of it will probably be , that the Essex Dissenters , who have been hitherto disposed to take the dicta of their ministers on trust , will inquire for themselves , and in that case they cannot do better than accept their brother Layman for a guide .
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Browne displays a greater soreness of feeling than ought to have been excited by a weak anonymous attack , though it is difficult , we confess , for a reader at a distance to judge of the mischief produced by accusations thrown out in the dark .
With great propriety and manliness , Mr . Browne renounces for the Unitarians all confidence in human names . They are , he says truly , ( Pref . p . vii . ) " no more followers of Dr . Priestley than of Socinusj" and " them , " he emphatically says , ( p « 8 , ) " Socinus is no more than any other honest inquiring Christian : " yet there is a line in the Dedication of the tract to Mr . Belshatn , distin * guished too by large capitals , which is scarcely consistent with these sentiments . The Unitarians are not embodied into one church , nor do they recognize any * ' Head , " but Him after whom they are named ; though they are agreed in acknowledging the talents , virtues and services of the gentleman to whom the compliment is addressed .
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266 Review . —Browne s Religious Liberty . —Bennett ' Sermon .
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Art . VII . —Religious Liberty and the Rights of Conscience and Private Judgment grossly violated , by an Anonymous Writer in the Gloucester Herald , assuming the name of " A
Christian , " with Replies to ? iis Letters , and additional Remarks . By the Rev . Theophilus Browne , M . A ., Minister of the Unitarian Chapel in that City . 12 mo . pp . 62 .
Gloucester , printed : sold by Hunter and Eaton , London . 1810-f i ^ HE occasion and introduction of JL this controversy are explained in our pages ( 18 , 19 ) by a communication from Mr . Browne . Some
further letters appeared in the Gloucester Herald , which are here collected and published , with a concluding one , which the Editor of that Journal declined to insert . On the
side of the " Christian" there is much real , though perhaps honest , bigotry ; he substitutes texts for arguments , and takes upon him to silence dispute by au aflectation of piety . Mr . Browne , on the other side , is desirous of bringing every charge and every
insinuation to the test of fact ; he lays down , and reasons from great general principles , acknowledged by all Protestants - and he evinces throughout a laudable anxiety for the instruction of the poor , and the establishment of moral principles ami feelings in their children . As cool lookers-on ,, we think , at the same time , that Mr .
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Art . VIII . —An Appeal to the Christian World , on the Evangelical Nature and Practical Effects of Unitarian Principles . A Discourse delivered at Poole , in Dorsetshire * on Wednesday , July [ 6 th , 1817 , before the Southern Unitarian JJook Society . By A . Bennett . 12 mo . pp . 31 . Hunter and Eaton . 1817 . AFTER making some excellent observations on his text , Acts xv . 11 , as exhibiting , with the context , the first instance of Christians
attempting to exclude each other from salvation , on account of difference . of opinion and worship , Mr . Bennett proceeds to shew , " That the
Unitarian doctrine is evangelical in its nature , productive of the purest feelings of piety , and calculated to promote religious obedience , and to sifford Jill ( he consolations of the Christian
hope . " He pursues the argument in a colloquial style , and the reader , if we may judge from our own experience , cannot fail of taking a lively interest in ( he whole discourse . The following passage is a satisfactory answer to an effusion of bigotry " A : Reviewer m the Evangelical Ma *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/54/
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