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    chailrohAi&rsM&i j < Eii € K&is S 0 i& # * s ^ 5 ^^ ift £ ) in ( to what wenii ^ io ^ lBaf mhiM '^ m t Um ^ m ^^ M % ffitfgMtftr ministers , all disposethe - mmd tgSiimnW ^ n ; s ^ id We ^ ^ a ! 9 WiftfWiiibJe ce ^ m ; Ke <^ seWiie ^^ m tfMR with " ^ aMrUyr MWm fflhim * of dissenting churches can give no such weight to their anathemas * 3 tttiP kr

    ^ ordfePiftQ'guawi , their cajoaimunitie ^ from the incursions of heresy ^ t ^ e y * are obiig € s | b t «* make og what tjiey want in dignity and power . by vigilant isqui * sifkaiiiahd actiaSMW ^ io us invective . The y war n those ove r whom , they jb % Y iufludBfief 4 ; a ' fl € e frbia ithe contagion of Unitarian principles $ to resist * as , $# u ^ 4 diibfce | I > suggfesiloa of the great enemy of man , the first inclination to read or hda ^ what we ca& offer in our defen ce , unless with the firmes t resolution

    tot it shall only strengthen ! them in their present faith . The consequence is , that a large proportion of our Christian brethren know nothing more definite of our creed , than that it is the sure perdition of every one who embraces iti ^ Pfh 18 , 19 .

    This part of the subject enkindles the preacher ' s indignant zeal , but a zeal not beyond knowiedge : Dc without charity . ; r ^ ; ^ „;; ^ ¦ :, , "j Were I eaUe ( J upon to •^ - ] vJ ^ 7 9 C . 9 ft ) Aft . 5 f « rj » p 4 ^^ ftf . ^^^ y h ^^ een most injurious , to n > a ^^ oJrUheunity of pod , nor to t | i ^ p ^ P ^ mWP ^ I § ifeffi 9 % 99 ^ ffiW ^ mW * $ P ^ fflHWHl * Wm £ > ana person of tne Satiour ; , , nofr-pg ^ -ev ^ f' | bo ttjifc ^ jao ^ ui , ^ I ^ Wcp teases , tfeat the Father of a | l wa ^; induced tpt r ^ em ^ | Jb ^ ^|^ . ^ k ^ aiiitilt . Ws feefele children ^ by the suffering [ jaifi satisfaction olauotherlnfinTte Being not even this appears to me so baneful * in iut ^^ ency ,,, ^ . the , doctrine Once held by every community of Christians , fthat : them is w salvation but in believing wlmt each declares to ^ l& i ^ . jWi ^ the Bishop of Rome , in the plenitude of infauibifity , through the long gradation

    df itiuAhM jtow ^ f , <{ to nim ' who tMtik « hMavfei but a colony ftbm his fcwn Kftk ctiuVe ^^ on ' ear ^ , this bpinibn his been ^ he parettt of Wery unholy disposition and evil work . The lawfulness and leven duty of persecution , in orafer that the soul might be sated by the suffering of the body , was one of its simplest corqUarie $ ; the permanent existence of 'an authorized and infallible in . terpreter of Scripture is the only supposition by \ vhich it can be reconq } leq , eyem ^ n , appearance , with the benevolence and justice of Gp . d . It l ) Las poisoned tne springs 6 r | he charities of life , by leading men to regard eaen tti ; ner as ot tor triflindifferences 01

    conaemnea J neaven , speculative ana g religious ppinlidnfit ^ h ^ iperVertea and Confounded their moral notions by iattmg op a fanciful and arbitmry standard of virtue , in orthodoxy of belief instead of the sifttpfte , practical and scriptural test of ' doing justice , and loving mercy ^ and w ^ ing humbly with God . * We , my brethren , renounxre and abjure the docttm % that mojl can forfeit his hope of everlasting happiness by any specula tive opinion which he has honestly embraced , while he thus conforniR to what the Lrtjr ^ hfs Gpd , requires of him . We know that we too mignt work ^ on *^ e tOTcjirs ' ofinan ^ iiid , by representing our tenets as essential to BalWtidWj we know that we sacrifice some of the most necessary elements of a rengiouH know that we ; sacrifice some of the most necessary elements of a rengiouH jg ^ osp comprehensive rather exclusive

    p ^^ ^^^ ietk ^ ng the el as than ; bui ' sooner snail our cause sink as low as its bitterest enemy could desire , than w ^ wlllm ^^ | 6 * tfte bad passions or * the human heart in its support , aft ^ W ' jw ^ and its author . If our zeal cannot be kept Mm ^ iM ^^ opY aad Christian love , let it be extinguished !*** Kpp / Iflu ^ ^ yBi l )^ 'n (! 'i ! . i .. ' ¦ ;'' ' ¦**¦ . " - r * , a l '< lA * frjiTH (> " [ .- . - A' ' . ' . .. ; .., . . . ' rfh&fdurth and last hindrance , with which Mr . Kenrick shews that Umtar rianism l \ as to contend , is * ' the prevalentjop inion that it leads to infidelity " ( p « i 3 ^ 1 * ^ OWttiott , by the w » y , that was quite ^ acrvJersetoChristiaiiUy otk , ita first publication , ( mdvalso tp the , Reformation when $ t « Brat ^ fos ^ . m Germany , as it is now to Unitarianism . This cause is in part resolvable into

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 827, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/43/