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tious as to qtiapel witf * their inatructors for % v * &tfag ± them yv&k words instead Qt ideas * , all may -agree ta admire that which none can justly b ^ said , to co mprehend . Here I cannot help noticing , as a thing much to be lamented , that preachers mho
entertain what are called moderate views ia religion , shcMild sometimes continue to use a language which they , know will be misapprehended by . those wJmjI hear them * They may say in their defence that the language which they employ jtB chiefly the language of scrips
lure . Bat this in my judgment makes the case , sjilfc worse . He wto « ses scriptural phraseology to which he ia aware that Weae which he deems un-^ criptural will t > e attached , vrilfiilly converts the <| yaKies of , truth into . the means of confirming prejudice and error . If he bws $ encourage thje
belief of opinions ; which && jdpes ^ mot himself adroit , let him adopt language of his _ own , that . . the . mistaken , views of men may rest cm the basis of hjjunaa authority . This a ^ thori tjr many migh t dare to dispute , but what is considered as the authority of the word of Qod ^ is to the serious-minded Chtistia&over-i
whelmijag $ a £ irresistible . And thus whw erroneous opinions which have , originated in the misinterpretation of scripture phraseology , ar « cherished by the perpetual application of this phraseology , tfo $ evil scarcely admits a remedy . Some Christian , teachora endeavQiir to reconcile their
consciences to this abuse of scriptural Iangauge by pleading , that were they to < speak t ^ air . whole mind tfeey , should injure their usefulness . It U not mine to pronounce a harsh judgment upon their conduct , but I must be allowed to say , that mistaken indeed mvtst lm tliose view ? of usefutooas whlcsb shitll
lead a teacher of Ohrifltiauity intcn ^ tionally | o refrain fcow dedatinjg th& whofe counsel of God . Jf there fa a . class joC ; MGfo tupojh edftfo w whom simplicity and pMin baling ato more omw » ea % ity # &tf * m fm&wi <> tft ptCix-I iarly bq ^ o rp inK ^ tbMtta ^ cill otfaer oien , they are the ministers of she gospel of Christ . . *
I wUkepiujJ ^ thi ^ desultory fetter ^^ nWmm ^ m ^ Mmm ^ m ^ ^ w ^^^ W ^^^^ . S v- ^^ wjfl ?^* topics , t&y arc sparing in 'itte ^ G&
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aqrlpturallg «^ aiEigeji » iihoi ^ r 3 tibcy wer * secretly cbm ^ nZth&tb ^ &ae trine is but fepbly supported by ft « authority of revel ^ ^ n ; TtefactiaBaqr be admitted , but ^ ^||^ ppe ^ i | b ^ f they . have not - < the s ^ pe ^ i ^ us | l cion that their doctrine ia % mscriptffira ^ but they . knOw that in a mixed congregation there as yet may remain £ aa » y in whose minds : unsciripitiFai nations have been associated with
scriptural phraseology ; and . rather than lise a language which , if they di 4 boC perpetually explain It when used ^ Would be liable to miaconeeptaoii , they may reasonably prefer to express what they believe to be the truthsf of tfce gospel in terms which cannot be
misunderstood . Moreover , there is a kind of language in the New Testament , which , in the age of the writers , was perfectly natural , and therefore perfectly proper * but which , if the general ? iews of the Unitarian are jmti it is bow rather the business of the
Christian teacher to explain , than to > adopts Of this kind are the sacrificial allusions which the apostles make use of in relation to the death cif Christ , allusions which it was * scarcely
possible for them not to employ ; but Whfch , if employed in the present day , unless illustrated by a just interpretation , must infallibly lead to error . I will only add , that if in the study of the New Testament a due attention
had always been paid to the times and circumstances of the writers , the tenets Of Calvinism would never have beea heard of ; tenets which ought not ta have found an advocate in the world after sufficient time was allowed for
the circulation ) of Dr . Taylor ' s Key to the Apostolic Writings a work iu which these tenets am refuted as folly and unanswerably as any error , ever was refuted in any branch of science oir of knowledges
. | B . CpGANt \ S . Whaa I ^ svfrota thcrjoager ^> £ which y ^ ur correspondent G . B . W * does note t& » honohr » to speak so >
favourably ., ( p . 160 of your iaatm&m ^ be % )\ 1 im& j $ k ^ & of the , passage . 1 John iiy 12 t a passage which I think that yoar correspondent has explained 8 « btisfector 51 y < euotigh . Had the m& ~ pW 0 m ^ l ^ ; > Oljirv ^ mke ^ eert VL ^ erip ^ Ui !^ m 1 pt ^ slon y the phms& hiu -ro <^^« i ^'' pl ^ iuttSibreted so « s ^ . to bear the s ? sme
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Afc tfr&mm " moderate Galbimsf * : * - 22 £
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/29/
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