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the last , since in many minds Christianity and what is called " Orthodoxy" are identical . Some that do not allow themselves to treat Unitarianism as infidelity , represent it as the half-way house on the road to it . In reply to this charge of infidel tendency , Mr . Kenrick says , " As to the question of fact , it is surely not fair to infer any tendency in Unitarianism to produce infidelity , because many who once were orthodox ,
haying detached themselves from the faith m which they were brought up , went on to deny Christianity altogether , as the rock once loosened from its place continues to roll on , long after it has reached the plain . That among those whose faith has from the first been built on Unitarian principles , any greater tendency to unbelief has shewn itself than among the professors of other religious systems , is altogether an unfounded assertion ; and this is the only fair criterion . "—P . 23 .
The preacher further appeals , in disproof of the charge of unbelief , to the pains taken in Unitarian congregations to instruct the young in the true evidences of Christianity , and to the fact , that in the Deistical controversy the Unitarians have furnished far moreihaa their numerical proportion of champ ions of revealed religion . ( Rp . 22 t- * -25 , ) ... ... Thus , independent of the truth or falsehood of Unitarian opinions , there
kfcist obstacl ^ aild m the feeli ^ They are , neverthelessy emtecedF by manty ^ % y whom ^ for various and obvious reasons , they are not avowed The number of professors of these doctrines is therefore no crjj ^ rip ^ of , ^ The re may , be sure , though giwhxal and silent , reyplijtions in putljiQ opinion .
' * ' Sftchcnaiigeg an attentive observe ^; maV discover . ' Even if tlie extraordinary mteUectlal activity of the ^ s ^ nt day dft noi bear direcfiy on religion , it could not continue without producing an effect upon religion . In the great circle 0 / hunian knowledge ever ^ y radiant poiipt ' shedsits liglit on all the rest . However some may reject the idea' of a pi ; 6 jgressiVe religion , " nothing js Wore certain than that it must receive modifications from the intellectual state of
the World . Though kindled from heaven , tfe ^ brightness of its flame depends cm ftte purity of the atmosphere iii which it burns . Creeds may jfemain tuicnangea } while the faith of their nominal adherents no more resembles mat of their framers , than the race that now tills the banks of the ' Nile resfembles those wl * o ar ^ embalmed in the Egyptian catacombs . "— 'P . 2 6 . ; t , fi .
That wltieh tnay be judged rational is not the proper test of what ! has 1 ) eeh re ^ ealedf , but th £ happy result of unbiassed scriptural research isi that reason and revelation are not at variance . Hence the Unitarians indulge the most Phasing anticipations of the result of the unusal sensation which has been witnessed of late in the public mind , and are prepared to say with Mr , Kehrick , -. ¦«¦ ¦ . . . . .. t ] it > :. < . ¦ . ' ¦¦ , . - &re that can
^ ' ^ jb cpiiyinced no doctrines ultimat ely ' . pjfCjB ^ l anipn # ( a jeo |> l ^ aJOl p ^ d to tuihk and examine for themselves , wnjcn ; liW Trmsubtitdntlation , involve a sensible absurdity , or , like the Trinity , a mei ^ pliYMcal contradiction , or , like the doctrine of Atonement in its ' >( g ;^ iufie ^ r > D ;; aife ' utterly repugnant to what nature shews and reason proves of tlie moral attributes 0 f God ; The surrender of their understandings is . a ^ rice ) wliicb men wJU not long consent to pay for the beli ef of any system of theology . "~
' 1 T ^ e preacher appeals ry naturally the example of the United ^ States of America for proof of the tendency of Unitarian Christianity to rapid diffusion , where the hindrances , already specified , are whojly or in part removed .
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{ 328 Review . — -Henrwk ' s Unitarian association sermon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 828, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/44/
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