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harmless customs * of men among whom yve may sojourn ; $ n < j I am confident that compliance with such * eustoaas w *| l . nof be construed by t ^ e people alluded to , nor any others , as indicating an approval of it , of as forming a tacit guarantee for its continuance among them in the event of their becoming
Christians . St . Paul says , * All things are lawful for me , but all things are not expedient : ' this sentence is the best explanation I can wish to give of th $ principle on which I distinguished betweep propriety an 4 expediepcy ; and I trust Humanus has a more just
conception of the holy religion which he professes , than to think the employment of carping verbaj criticism on such subjects can be at all consistent therewith . Moreover , the
phrase , * drinking human blood , ' appears much stronger than the circumstances of the case , as stated by me , will fairiy warrant ; a single drop of blood put into a draught of palm wide , being in truth nothing more
| bau a literal or visible sign of their uniting the stranger' to their blood or race . 2 . It rather appears inconsistent" with Christian candour to think s $ ipi ^ ch evil of our neighbour as to characterize any ceremony of Jiis as idplatrouB , which has no reference to
any idol , and more especially among a people who do not worship idols , a ^ t least in the common acceptation of the t $ rni , and I do ayer , op my own knowledge , that the invocations used at t&e ceremony in question were directed to the Supreme ( though by th m unknown ) God . I did not
expect ; tp be underatpod as meanipg that I believed ' apy p # j * of S $ . Paul ' s wr itings , iippli ^ d tjie lawfulness of worshiping fdqrls \ £ ijior da I tbink that any . expression % used can be brought ; forward tf > rpake out ^ e relevancy pf
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Con 6 tantine ' s sword of steel . ' Jt h also , I presume , well known to all , Protestants that the fopndatiops were then deeply laid of that horrible structure of tyrannical superstition and idolatry , from which , under the title of Church of Rome , those doctrines and mandates were issued , which
imposed on the credulity of mankind , and kept them fettered in the chains of ignorance ^ nd mental darkness during so many ages , even until the good providence of God directed t |* e invention of printing as the appointed means for rescuing and relieving them
from spiritual bondage . 4 . I am very reluctantly led to suppose that Humanus is not sufficiently well informed respecting the tenets held by Unitarian Christians , if he mean to designate them under the appellation , ' Modern Socinians . ' The Unitarians
disclaim persecution under any . and every shape . Socinus persecuted Day ides for refusing to worship Christ , which fact alone ought in every honest mind to be admitted as decisive testimony to the iqeopvertibUity of the ten » 8 r . It ) 8 neither just nor politic ip a
Protestant writer to assert that Christians , who acknowledge the truth and divine authority of the Bible , and particularly the New Testament , allow only ' a nrin ^ e frag m en t of Chiistiapity /
Such statements are evidently prejudicial to Christianity in general , and to tVotestantism ia particular ; and since in the way of interpretation , it is , or at least Plight to be , acknowledged that we all have need to exert out best
abilities , when endeavouring to . find the true direction , we ought not to expend those abilities in mischievous quarrels with each pther by the way , Numantes ought np % to be ignorant of that which we all know , qjr at l ^^ st those of uj 5 who h ^ v ^ bad opportun ity of
attending to qt observing on miss ^ n ^ ary affairs ipt Maln > Himedan countries pWt ^ sp ^ ly , a » jj He ^ Jh ^ n ijountri ^ g ^ a ^ fall y , viz . t )^ t % he ^ ipctrin ^ of tto TM ^ ity a « d Ua coneojq ^ itwtA w& t | ie principal ieppedme ^ ta | q tm
conversion of the inhabitant , ajid that putf «« 1 W | je of y ie \ y t ^ ^ uestt oii of tbw imiM >| t ? mce , mmQi iflAt ^ fe ,. flfe M ** r twofo M $ e $ e , rm J ^ m $ vm Mem tlw y vbtwm > M > fa * Mfaffi&fotW * y *} M ajK >§ t ^ ' $ 4 itm ^ a& < $$ §• tM&t $ mbte& oi ? Bl * ea ^ Jii ^ gJW PJ&i ^ l y ^ M ; ttfl * q ^ ivo :
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%$$ Capt . Ross e s rejected-Communication to the Evangelical Magazine .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/30/
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