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ON MR. ELTON'S " SECOND THOUGHTS."
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY t r ' ' . ANli . .. . REVIEW .
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AUGUST , 1827 .
On Mr. Elton's " Second Thoughts."
ON MR . ELTON ' S " SECOND THOUGHTS . "
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NEW SERIES , No . VIII .
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To the Editor , Sir , App rized by a notice in one of your recent numbers that a gentleman and scholar who but lately advocated the Unitarian doctrine with much zeal and ability , was about to publish his reasons for abandoning that system , I was induced shortly after to furnish myself with the work alluded to , in order -that I might make myself acquainted with those reasons , and give
them an attentive and impartial consideration . I have done so ; and if some few remarks , which I am disposed to make on Mr . Elton ' s little volume should appear to you deserving a place in your Repository , they are much at your service . It was not without pain , I must confess , that I was convinced almost by the'fifst ^ pages of the Second 'Thoughts , that the spirit of the work is
decidedly polemk&l . When circumstances oblige a man to say farewell to his former friends and companions , some kind words at parting are naturally expected , to soothe the pain of separation , and leave behind the impression of good-will . At the close of a religious intercourse , something of this kind seems especially * becoming . From two revolutions in his own creed , it was to be hoped that the author would at least have learned the lesson 6 f candour towards others . ; one of the few good fruits which the thorns and briars of controversy sometimes yield . It might have been thought that some feel *
ings of tenderness towards his late self would have disposed him to judge atia speak with less severity bf those of whom he was so recently onfc . Did he duly consider wh > t an unfavourable inference would arise against hi m self frd ^ lfhpse , chargesof mental and moral perversi ^ with which he loads his late friends ? Or floes he reckon so largely on the forgetfujneas qt ' the public , as to -suppose that they will pot call to mind that such as Unita- * riansarefepTesetftetrtobendw ^ such Jflr * Eltpn also was but twelve months ag 6 * ' Trufe in this instance We may say t 6 him , " Whetein thou judgek ? aMh ^ ef , t ^' ;^)^^ n ^ ^^ : ^ . and if He sK 6 Wd reply , that ; he tt | & forsaken his error , still , Ief me ask , ought not some feelings of humility and sympathy to teach feirn forbearance tbwardf tfese who still remain entangled
in it ? When the Israelite ! << &mcJ WC kX ? Egypt > they were enjoined ever to be kind towards strangers ; becausernsajid their lawgiver , ' * ye yours ^ flviepi ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/1/
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