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procurin g topics of reproach again& a ntiwfcrt >^ & ^^^ Christians ? What if-SociA \ B , ! wto was but of yesterday in 4 yim # of a dtedSwhifeh fianfes ^ KBydattejfrbifidatf \ M * tk * wpQ ®( Mk WeM $ ^ $$ lm } W § n
nttffrB ^ i&fmeiti ^ minister lately deceased , as Mr ; GqppeJ of Yorfc ^ fey es ^ i ^^ lRal-fe ^^ f exposition , has given it a considerable extension among VbWfi&h $$ our own day ? Still not aH > nor do I believe half of usy approve of i ^ ^ | the author- inust hate known that his own strictures on it , &MbW 0 pfofty me very just and forcible * are scarcely more decided and severe than ffid ^ i | fels rejceivedA from writers among ourselves . Let him charge the SQctimcd •¦* b pifrioii on those wJi ^ tn ^ intaan fet but I am justified by hi « toiy in saying ; wk the true and ancient Umtdrim opinion ,, and that which has hiadf the ^ tn ^ st
sound and learned advocates on its side , is the one for which the author finds it inconvenient to give us credit ; one , indeed , which he would find himself rather at a Iocs in opposing since he appears still to entertain it himself . It is simply that which regards the Logos or Word , as conceived hy the writer of Johii ^ iQi ! Sp € l ^ tci beaiOE offie ? : ^ e ^ lff nhkfffiltod himself , as he expressly says , that " the Word was God ; " God , under a particularaspect 0 iicharacter ;¦ God * in a particular f ^^ ti ^ yjiid ^^^ W& ^ W % t ftrst ^ de the ; worW , &i& Am due time ia ^ # ialftttffli ^^^ % l ^ df most intimate union < with die GhnstiesUB ; . ^ | jdrdner ^^^ efes ^ Mf ^ this
poiat as follows : » Ail these textgja ^ ra tonmvmm ' Umm mwf y d ^ mm by the IF&rd ) which St > John S 3 yar £ J A ' ? wtimin ; : the 6 ^ n # t ^^ t ^ ^ 4 ^^^ < md ^ j ^^ I' l ^ im ^ j ^ iGod Irimse ^ of / theswisds ^ liJi ^ nd ! fbwm of ^ te ^ j ^ eW ^ ^ Ffflier , who alone i& Gk > d , nor is there any " others * hus Laffdtt J ^ , ahd t ^ u ^ ik ^ y Qpmcimih trM ^ imr . ap&r * . il . bqaoO z ' udol iv qM % iiM \ guhvuip-jdr Our object in writing must n 6 t be to defend'a party , but to mmhtflhl tt \ Ah ; if oh whble iniotfi io rwlwclv ilidividimh
Wl an adveraary . cliarges a party op ; of Aa * i ^ y oatinot subacribe v i ^ to 6 t ^ fw \ Tftrti ^ j ^ , vindicate themselves at leaet from the fkte ^ iifi ^ l ^ ito ^ ' # ^ 4 >> nel ^ J ^ e ^ y ^ lb jfcn ^ J ^^ f ^ ipm ^ emiogB ' of those W ^ a partisans who genei ^ Ity ' outstrip * the m ^ ffiiodQt ^ tey not more in the extravagance of their opinioMft ' than iiith ^ ir 2 ^^ Jav pr ^ iimuig them * When the essential character of a doctrtri ^ is ^ 5 ^ ^> thi « precaution becomes the more nec e ssary . UnitArianis m ' ^ onsife ij ^ ^ disbieliefin the doctri ne of the Trinity , as unscnptur ^ l and absutdi But $ p B ^^ wJi ^ disbelieves this doctrine may happen at the same- timi ' tft dfe ^ . ^^^ v ^ , imdi > y others which really belong to the Christian verityVo ^ , like J (^ n ^^ ho may , perchance , be one of those who , while they stilV ^ l
t ^ ixtpel lf ^ a GbristiirtB ^ make no scruple of rejecting large « porti < iiiwKbr ^ Ve e ^ m ^ y& lfb wboks , of the Scriptures . Now , it suits well the purrpo « e ^ oV a ^ dfti t ? v > ve ^ ialwt'to confound together , under the name of Uniteriaft , all" tiies * fftffym of mwty faith , down almost to the naked Deist ; with thosfel fbr >^^ , alo ^ e ^ that name < is truly responsible , those , namely , ^ hryii ^ iftttrtrt ^ mpb ^ ^ d <^ trijQe > f one Gad the Father * and such otheti &&are ^^ . ^ - tify ^^^^ rwitfe it , land that a « 6 ei ^ ^^ *^ ( tfmfo fF $ ^ 4 vm » t W ^^ etent mode df moceedtng v Urt * iov ^ of Wutli ;
a ^ iti ^ ^< ff ^ oh > preside ^ in thiB arcwa . A Fhe hian , howev ^ t' , wfio Wdrti cwtfic ^ w v ^ Jwes the estier ^^ of Uhkarianism ^ Wiould ^^ Vbe ^ roit ^ ^ rtitK ^ clai ^^ tH «^ l ^ rioira alliai ioea * ' , * , >• r / . 'i / JJ ; -: /' j ^ - ) f / Jirji-iX \^) hit ^ ato ifTfe ^ j ^ p giirtaiidfiir « pecim ^ 0 f \* ii ^ co 6 lio ^ iw ^ *|) 61 *» y < mpMWfe it down as one of the four cardinal maxims by which U mtarmns dispose of
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? iVv » j . > \\ n \ Y Vnso ' y ^ V ' , , ' s \ M-, \" > V - ;*^ l i * O £ 18 On Mr . Elton * s Second Thoughts . £ 19 . "S , ^ U / : uJ / jij ? ,: ; . < ioi = ^ poaa jW ^ joil ^ fileii ^ oiii m oi bo ^ rin ^ B ? ^ d yidsfffiOi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 819, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/35/
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