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y . . : l . tf >( v : » ;? . ... . _ . Art . i . r ^ -AevT £ /)< x < $ povTiSfi $ . Second Thoughts on the Person of Christ ian Human Sin , and oh the Atonement ; containing Reasons for the Author * $ Secessionfrom the Uriitarian Communion ^ and his Adherence to that of . the Established Church . By Charles A . Elton , &c . Bristol , 1827 . \ Unitarianism Abandoned ; or Reasons assigned for ceasing to be connected with that description of Religious Professors who designate themselves Unitarians . By James Gilchrist * London , 1827 *
Ax the head of this article are , placed the titles of two works of recent gubli&tiqn , which are calculated , from the nature of the subjects and the names of , the authors , to interest in no common measure the curiosity of the religious public . To some they may seem to indicate the weakness and the . hopelessness of the Unitarian cause ;—to augur its present decline and its approaching overthrow from the secession , and the subsequent assaults , o £ its former advocates . The declension , at nearly the same period , of twa professors of the Unitarian doctrine , whose names had for some years been :
connected with its defence and propagation from the pulpit or the press , may , indeed , on the first announcement of the singular fact , appear an alarming presage of ill . But we must implore our Unitarian readers not to ? yield too readily to their fears , if perchance fears have , on this occasion * invaded their minds ; for we can thus early assure them , that all the substantial danger of these portentous writings is comprised in their respective titles , —the imposing front with which they are ushered into the arena of
controversy . That the considerations which are here alleged effected a ejiange in the convictions of the authors , and compelled them , from a regard to conscience , to <* abandon Unitarianisnij , " and to " secede from the Uni-n tarian communion , " we are bound in charity to believe . We must , how-i ever , be permitted to state our own persuasion , that the " reasons 'to . which these gentlemen attribute their reconversion , will not , in the slightest . degree , shake the faith of a single Unitarian who has a thorough understanding of his
principles , and knows the scriptural foundation on which they rest . . , Mr . Elton , to whose work we shall first advert , is well known in the clasH sical walks of literature , as an elegant scholar ,, a faithful translator , and a pleasing poet . His English , version of Hesiod is a standard work of its class ; aad his later selections and translations frpm the el ^ sic ^ d writ ers of antiquity display to great advantage his learning and his taste , In the fields of theological literature he h&s shewn himself a re $ pect ^ We biblical critic and skilful controversialist * The , character which he bacj maintained ia . his
former publications led us to expect , that in the avpwal of tj ^ e change which his , mind had undergone * Jie would not forget the moral qualities of the m * derstaricHnff , and the heart whicji had , aequir £ d' for him thfc esteena of his readers ; that the statement ; ojf his ** reason © " would be no less distinguished by itec ^ uRdpur .- tfoan ^ by ^ . p ^ afnjCuity ; . ^ nd tl ^ at ; jn ^ seceding" from persons witjh ^ whftm , ^ (^ « l > » Wg iiy&iipn tetms of cordial intimacy , he would have ^ itte 4 ( , th ^ ^ n % , salutation ^ InUhi $ « expectation , however , we have teen lamentably disappoirited . The tone and the language he employs throughout his Work evince a State of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/31/
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