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or Serviceable to the interests of Christianity , that he be denounced and proscribed as an enemy of the Chris ^ tian faith .
There are two or three other points in the Clergyman ' s letter and your remarks , to which , with your permission , of which your known liberality
will not allow me to doubt , 1 shall call the attention of your readers in another letter ; and , in the mean time , I am , Sir , your humble and obedient servant ROBERT ASPLAN . D . Hackney , Nov . 9-
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actually does ) for its repeal . Let him uot , however , deceive himself . The restoration of pains and penalties against iinpugners of the doctrine of the Trinity would not at all affect the
case of unbelievers . The law , as it now stands , is , we see , sufficient for their conviction and punishment ; but if it were not , what possible connexion could there be between the repealed
clauses of the 9 th and J Oth William and Mary , wliich relateonly to Antitrinitarians , and the seizure and destination of the stack of Deistical booksellers ? Having * on Mr . Carlile ' s authority , confounded Deists and Unitarian
Christians , your correspondent seems to suppose that to harass and terrify the latter would awe and silence the former . Does be not know , then , that the Age of Reason was first published when the statute which be
would recall from oblivion was in full force ? I appeal , Sir , to his Christian justice and candour , and call upon him to say , whether the Unitarians have more part or interest in the circulation of irreligious books than
himself . He may rest assured that they feel as much disgust as he at the daring falsehoods and the ribaldry of the Age of Reason . From 1 heir pens proceeded some of the earliest answers to it : and the Unitarian Society has ,
from its institution , made a point of distributing tracts in defence of Divine Revelation ; and by means of it , thousands upon thousands have been circulated of Dr . Hartley ' s chapters " on
the Evidences of Christianity ?* ' of the answer to the question , Why are you a Christian ? by Clarke , art American divine ; and of Bishop taw ' s Reflections on the Character of Christ *
I wish not , Sir , to be disrespectful to your correspondent , but you must allow me to express my astonishment that any Protestant clergyman of the present day should propose to revoke exploded pains and penalties against
iiis feliow-christians for a difference of faith . If , in bis opinion , they be erroneous , let him point out their error , and let him defend the truth with all his ability and zeal . As a Christian , he must believe that in fair argument the advantage is on the side , not of error , but of truth . If arguments ' cannot prevail against Unitarians , what can > Your corres ponden t is scarcely of Dr . SoufrhV mind , tltftti
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710 Intelligence . —Correspondence relating to the Unitarians *
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Letter II . To the Editor of the Times . Sir , I thank you for your prompt insertion of my letter of yesterday , and proceed , with your indulgence , to make a few further remarks upon the Clergyman ' s Letter .
With the ground of Mr . Carhle ' s defence , Unitarians , as such , have no concern . His pleading the 53 rd of the King , ( the Act for relieving those that do not believe the doctrine of the Trinity from certain pains and penalties , ) no more implicates them in his cause , than his appealing to the Toleration Act would have identified with
himself the whple body of Protestant Dissenters . It is sufficiently clear that this statute protects the Unitarian Christian in the conscientious avowal of his opinions and observance of his worship : whether it have any collateral operation , it is not for him , but for courts of law to determine . But
it is very strange that the Act should be considered by either Mr . CarliJe or the Clergyman as commixing Deists ? uid Unitarians 5 when the true state of the case is , that they were confounded in the 9 th and 10 th of William and Mary , but are separated by Mr . Smith ' s Bill , which takes
Unitarians from under the operation of the statute , but leaves all other persons contemplated by it in the precise condition in which they stood before . The Clergyman seems to be dissatisfied with the Legislature , the Ministers , and the Bench of Bishops on account of the Unitarian Protection
Act ; a « d if he thinks it a bad measure , he has a right to express his ^ dissatisfaction , and even to call ( as he
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 710, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/58/
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