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these , we frar , are not the means by which Mr . Kent and his partisans will allow a controversy to be decided . ftfr . Kent is a polemic of that school which holds that every thing is fair that is done against an adversaiy . He scruples no language , however gross , and makes statements
without any seeming care concerning their truth . What must be thought of a Christian minister who says , " it is my firm opinion , that if it * ( the tc Socinian scheme" ) * ' were generally to prevail in this town , in a few months' timejialf our tradesmen , would
become bankrupts ; such loose principles naturally lead to loose conduct , and loose conduct will always undermine a man ' s character and credit in society" ( p . 16 ) ; and who can allow himself further to say , " A Socinian meeting is a house of call , where the God of this World directs his votaries
to step in and stay a while , till they can obtain license to mix with the horrid crew of scoffers and libertines , who live as Atheists in the world' * ( pp . 29 , 30 ) I This outrageous man vows enmity ( p . 30 ) against Unitarians ; but we think that there are few persons above the condition of barbarians
who would set any value upon the friendship of such a fire-brand . There is still something ludicrous in Mr . Kent ' s wrath- Passion vents itself in metaphors , and this enraged gentleman thus describes the Improved Version : " It came into the world
at first with a horrid black skin and with cloven feet , and with a viper ' s sting under its tongue ; and after all their attempts to hide its deformity under the finest and most costly drapery that art and labour could furnish , all the world have agreed to pronounce it an ugly monster , and are afraid to
go near it" ( p . 17 ) . The meaning of tins insane rant is simply that there is < nie Version of the Scriptures , with Notes , compiled from the labours of Vie Iearil <* l of * H parties , into which lv « r . B . Kent is afraid to look .
Mr . Wright tells his townsman very toinkly that the "Infidel" in 10 s dialogue" is of his own creation , and that he is answerable for all that M P 1 i ' into k * IDOUth - J ^** *** ***> Mr . hent , then , where he got the story Which be makes - hi * Iofidel utw of the Unitarian minister Mtbo 8 ai ( l m the pulpit > that some of
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Paurs Epistles ought not to have been in the New Testament" ? ( P . 10 . ) No wonder , that he prompts his €€ Infidel " to calumny , since he says , in propri& person ^ , that a question relating to the body and spirit of man being put , a few months ago , " to a Soeinlaii " • .. v _ m mm . - *• - . minister banother
y minister of the orthodox persuasion , " the answer was , * O , as to that , Sir , there is nothing immaterial iu me ; when I die ( said the Rev . Divine ) there will be an end of me / ' * ( P . 21 , note . ) The relator of the story puts three notes of admiration at the conclusion . Well
he might . 1 he tale is admirable ; but we suspect it is of his own invention , and are sure that it is a gross falsehood . If it be not , let Mr . Kent produce his proofs , and we engage to publish them to the world .
We had marked some other passages of this choice " Dialogue" for animadversion , and particularly its pretended quotations from Soeimis and others , which are taken at
secondhand and in thtz most bungling manner both with respect to names * and things , but we are disgusted with the writer , and turn to his answerer , who does not € C answer a fool according to his folly , " but with the meekness of wisdom exposes the evils of bigotry and pleads the cause of evangelical truth and charity .
The following passage from " Truth and Facts /* will shew the Dialogue writer to the reader in another character , that of a biblical critic : " After all Mr . K . ' s outcry against those who deviate from the common version of
the Scriptures , and his censure new translations , he too can deviate , he too would have a new translation of , at least , some texts . ( See p . 19 . ) The text , The Lord our God is one Lord , he would
have read , The Lord our Gods is one Jehovah .- ' and speaks with approbation of a Calvin jst minister ' s having so read it in public . Mr . K . then has no objection to altering the translation of the
* E . g . Mr . B . Kent quotes , without understanding , a passage from Socinus's * ' Second Epistle to J ^ a ^ cerimicius ; the author , not liaised , . from whom this learned theolorajOK borrows , evidently meant the secbncl epistle jto 3 alcerovicius * fi $ ocini Op , t , 424 J Ifc is dangerous to quote wdrksf ^ Ver read , and especially If ihey be Written in ab unknown tongue .
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Review *—Kent and f Fright ' s Trowbridge Controversy . 517
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/51/
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