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    We had marked for observation some oflief pSrfe df Mft Eltftftrte&k ; but we miist hot trespass oil the patience of our readers ; arid WeoniesS ourselves heartily tired of our irksome and painful task . From tn % f &pBci we had always entertained for him on account of his talents , and the sacrifice he is said to have made in embracing and publicly professingUhi&rfeii sentiments , we cannot but view his ** secession" with regret . Out cbndeki

    is infinitely increased when we behold the anger and the dfedaitf wijli which he looks back on his late associates ; and read the vituperative abOSe the coarse revilings , and the gratuitous calumnies , which he has unsparingly heaped upon their principles , their motives , and their character . Deeply as they may feel , but chiefly on his own account , the injuries which , with

    such intemperate zeal , he has endeavoured to inflict upon therif , the Unita-i rians will greet him in return with no evil thought or word or wish . They will leave him to his own musings , with the sincere and earnest hope that ! he may derive from his new creed and profession all the peace , satisfaction and joy which religious principles , conscientiously embraced and honestly reduced to practice , are capable of imparting .

    Mr . Elton " recognizes , " it seems , " the plague spot on the walls of the Unitarian temple , and therefore he passes from its portal . " ? Such may possibly be the terrific aspect which , on a " second" view ' 9 it may present to his sickly imagination . To pur eyes the edifice exhibits a mtfre fair abd attractive exterior ^ tempting our willing steps to tfead its courts , to join tSe exercises and share the delights of those " who wear the pavement of the sanctuary . " As they are displayed to our vision , its walls are " salvation , and its gates praise . " f

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    Mr . Gilchrist ' s pamphlet , although oh many accounts an extraordinary production , will not require more than a brief notice . Indeed , were it not our wish to evince , that we are alive to what is transacting in the religious world , we should pass it by in silence , rather than encourage the supposition that we attached importance to its contents , by inserting its title in the pages of our Review .

    The author alleges ( Preface , p . v . ) , that there is " internal evidence , " in his work , " of his possessing sufficient fortitude to bear much severer criticism , with equanimity , " than to be accused of egotism . We have no inclination to ascertain by experiment what maybe his exact capacity of endurance . We much doubt , however , whether it were in the power of any censor , religious or literary , to pronounce upon him a , judgment half so severe , and , to a sensible mind , half so agonizing , as he has in these pages

    passed upon himself . Mr . Gilchrist , not being able to discover in his copious etymological vo cabulary , a definition more true to history and to fact , states ( p . in . ) Unitarianism to be , " the theological opinions of Dr . Priestley and Mr . Belshana . " Of t ) r . Priestley , in particular , he says , in a parody not distinguished certainly by correct feeling or good taste , that he was " the author and finisher of the Unitarian faith . " Both these eminent men rank , mdeec } , deservedly

    high among Unitarians . Their theological opinions * howeveiy it is no disrespect to them to state , are bo more to be considered as the standard of ttnitariariism , than are the theological sentiments of Mr ; Gilchrist to be regarded as the authorized creed Of the General Baptists , At the head of his title-page Mr . Gilchrist has stamped in broad chafacters , . . ...- ¦!¦ I - ¦ - * " Second Thoughts , " Ac , p . 10 ft . t *«»***» !*• 18-

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    Review <~ Secemom froth Unttariaimm . 67 )

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 671, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/39/