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' ¦ ••; r ksy >\ ^ ki * ¦ "¦ ¦ ' - - ¦ '¦ ¦ ¦ • • ¦ > . : ¦¦ ; ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . ; :. < - ' - ' - , ¦ - ;! Art . I , —Obstacles to the Diffusion of Untiarianism > and tt \ & PrdsfteWM tnefy Itefhdvat : a Sermon , preached before the Supporters of the Brilwh and Foreign Xfnitarian Association , at their Annual Meeting , Jwh 4 > T $ 182 ft By John Kenrick , M . A . 8 vo . pp . 36 * Hunter .
T # e qtresttoh is sometimes triumphantly asked of Unitarians * " Whether itbe credible that , if their system of faith be the true exposition of the Gospel , it should have been so long unknown , and should have made so little way sings its proftnilgation at the -era of the Reformation ? - In a Protest * tant 66 UBtr \ r , Whef ^ professed Unitarians : are not ason e to a hu ndre d of the
Christian 6 ptdiA | ktliD $ ty ^ - 'AffiF ^ IJQtBM ^ dfir * -i n ^ r ^ h ^ v ^ greafc weight \ fith mincfe not ramilfor With ^ 4 X& 3 &ti& $ ^ & i ^^ But M the sc $ ne and the subject be changed ; let the question , with the requisite change df terms ^ bei | te ^^|] j 04 b 0 &aiil ^ b ^ a ? R ^« n 43 aihdiiral : Madrid or ^^ Ronie , or to ^ eP R ® 6 ^ C ^ Bskntitipple , by a Hiiutogr & * Benares , or by a disciple of Fo or Confucks at Pekin , and te iyiacyvjof th ^ ^^^^^ vj 9 f ^^^^ j 9 ^ $ i 9 Jt ^ g |> r 4 igiQW ^^ fpuM tTp H k ? w ^ tty m ^ r vP * d ^^ eJIiy ^ far ® &i&ij $ iM ^ wtoever ^ I ^ isb ^^ be ^ Idngt e ^ thick clowqs - ; ^ ^ mystery ^ ififect ^ Utiitarianism no more than any other system of Christian
dGeMti&f fbffa' ^ ritV 'ti ^ j ^^ ( ' ' ' < f ^^^ - dhm . Yet we Verily believe that % he argument Miti ^ ufeibiers ^ ilgjhs Mly as mucfi f s a ^ tektual argument With the ! masa bif jSfi ^ fclip 3 Uans a ^ inst the claims q ] f 0 nitarians . They arfe in the wfp ^^^ iji ^ e iiey ate few . Trinitarians are right , because tn ^ jy ar ^ niaij anil e » jp ^ j | lie ixumber } ess advantages of a numerous sect , in the syflapatfty which everyone finds in his neighbour , and in the ardour whicl * ^ n | it ^ iiaJiy inspired in aworowd . r , ; fi u t : Whether the number of Unitarians be great or small , is of aomomeat with fegatfd to the truth of their doctrine ; but we are really amused at tba
inconsistency of some of their more vehement opponents who at one moment appeal ib'ihd prejudice of the vulgar in favour of large masses of l ? el £ ev £ i # * b ^ f rej > r ^ ejiitirig ) theh > % ® a dying sect , already dwindled below noti ^ a ^ hd in , tHe i \ ext 9 ^ eT about to attack them totis virtbus as if they were tjhie m $ & formidable enemy that ever lifted up a banner against tlje Ghurcjb ^ and p ^ if the faithful were no longer safe than whilst they are on their guarc ( ^ g ^\ mt ^ foe , \ yhpse strength is rendered tenfold more formidable b y the wilme ^ s with which it is wielded . The Unitarians are not inconsiderable , their aniagonists being ; judges ; and we humbly suggest that the cause q | 'tlje wn ^ iddri- * tion in which they are held is the consciousness of the force of their fcmbtu *
ral testithdny , ana the suspicion , if not the knowledge , that this-testiwttatny is operating with a secret influence upon the minds of many Who , from various motives . ; are ranged under some of the numerous and ' party-cdl&uretl'divi ^ sioh 6 W ^ cjrth 6 doxyi ' v' ' , / v ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦¦ '•' ¦ ¦¦ l > < ' . ' ¦>¦¦¦*•¦ wn < -., i .: , ¦• ¦ insteail of wpnderiqg t ^ . Upitariaijiferii ha ^ npft ^^ t <^ gt ^ at : ^^ jp ^ Og r ^ iti our own country , we , for otir part , dire surprised fcnat it has spreaa to so great an ^^ extent , in spite of th ^ numeirous otetacles put in its way by preju-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 822, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/38/
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