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and of $ i ^ ouiiiftCpittd ^ as w ^ as of energy * let * T ^ eHe ^ oleii e ^ ledge therefore , .,-&fp less than Deliverance , be eminently the property of ours . Let / #$ watchfully guard against the temptations arising from oar situation in the re > fig } 0 Si § world , from the controversies of ^ wh | ih ^ at present , we unavoidably are the objects , and in which so % ie . of us riayfe parties . Nothing like railing must Sp
returned for railing : we must reply in meekness to . those who oppose themselves ; we must inform them , plainly and mildly , that what tlfey object to us , has been objected , ami with the same injustice , to Christi&s of the earliest ages—and in the J , einper , pf those Christians our vindication musibe made . If some individuals , who follow not with
us , shew a disposition to employ unhallowed weapons , of attack , Qr of defence , let us , with united fortitude ajgd gentleness , protest against the principle and condemn the act . Let Jg ^ rjf * measure to which we have recourse ^ be worthy of our high aud s ^ acred . cause , be tne effect of a happy conjunction of wisdom , zeal and kindness . With that cause let
us not mterinis : any foreign toptcs : let us not attempt to support it by any other means than those which accord with its spiritual and heavenly origin . Let us refuse to make our individual efforts , i ^ r favourite plans of usefulness , the test of the benevolence and judgment and piety
of our brethren . In oue wonte ^ et us adorn our doctrine by the cultivation of knowledge , but especially of religious virtue ; cementing our uniorij- ^ by social acts of worship , and exercising that devout and moral vigilance , wiWft l ^ l ^ it circumstances particularly demaffli ^ Fbr solid worth of character recommends
truth more powerfully * and subdues prejudice and opposition more completely , than even the strongest reasoniug . *'—Pp .
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interesting manner : * ' The authot ^ pf the foliowrn ^ Disco&se , and defence of Unitarianistn ^ ndf a hereditary Unitarian . He is , a convert . Tbe reuouncement of the doc-Wine ^ of the Triwity cost him many It the of his
pau ^ s - was faith fathers ^—the faith which he cherished—the faith which men honed he would defend—ami glad would he % {| ve been , when he began to suspect ^ ts erroneoiisuess , if he could have excused himself from an impartial inquiry into the evidences of the
opposite doctrine . But th 4 s he could not do . A strorjjE suspicion that all was not right in his <* reed having been excited in his mind , by a c % Use fr < j& which one would not have anticipated such an effect—excitedly an orthoclox sermonhe could not MWe it as 3 onie can do , by
calling it a temptation of Satan , or t by some other convenient expedient . He felt himself bound to inquire . He did inquire , and thlFresult was , what some call heresy , and what I call truth . " But , besides the duty of inquiry , he felt that he had another duty to
performthat of avowing his belief . This duty also he performed ; and though poverty was before him—though obloquy was before him—though it grieved him to thwart a father ' s washes , who , having conducted him through £ ight sessions of education in the University of Glasgow , was now so near the close of the long
preparation , to pe so painfully / disappointed , he nevertheless became au t | hir tarian preacher ; and ijow , as a defender of Unitarianism , . '' Kj ^ igtfte upon his Trinitarian coinjtrytii ^^^^ s Christians , to ' search the Scriptw ^ Sl ** as Protestants , to scorn subjection to human authority , to be manly id the exercise of their own understandings—to be unprejudiced , that if his be the truth they inay embrace it ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 663, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/47/
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