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¦ &H > iterarb-wofJi > t-meiU Us o $ mmioxa olmoo ^ miij ^ jJ r ^ <> - { i M -iln ^ , 3 r , wj t- A ^ ii' ^ ucOhoauq euoici i ^ W ^ M ^ 6 ^ 0 ^^ h ' ^ , ™{ i ™ tov / ipi < ^ fe ^ a > ijs ^ w Mi ^ ^ w ^ ^ y ^ iPA ^ # ? seis an ^ P $ ?> # a W ^ ^ # P ^ : rs ^ e subject to him . " I Pet . 111 ^ 2 . ^ , ( , . ¦
" V ^ SlB ^ r : : "; . ¦ i . , '¦ : ¦ ¦ To the Editor . ,, . , , ; j , , > t ,. Mf ? ,. | TttE ^ ttestipn which I attempted to raise in my last scribble s ^^ m ^ li * harve '^ cited a very lively sensation in the Unitarian world ,.-. ^ iKmes WtfHt * adhtic integer : My present adventure in the wilds of heterodoxy i ^/ pro ^ Mbly destined to a like animating fate . Such would-be peace ^ tna&er ^ a ^ ttie * Cambridge Clergyman and myself , are verily andindeed */< lbq } iftvej *; some of'the most unacceptable of theological polemics . Still , whetjierajt , tfe instaa ^ e of necessity or free-will , I cannot help belonging to this sehook . , . © U .
ndt lament to my heart the pains , the perverse pains , ever and anon taken ttv prefent all possible approximation to that unity of faith and worship amongst thii disciples of " one Lord , " most assuredly dreamt of , if not soberly > antH CH ^ te& ^ -by its earliest but best-informed professors . f % n' thfe long obsolete , and perhaps half crazy humour , will he allow mfc the ^ liberty 6 f remonstrating with that body of Protestants to which Wfcib 0 ! hi pstehsibly belong , not so much on their tenacity of what is technically caJkd the Trinitarian faith , as of that faith in its most indefensible and \ ojfeisiye
form ? The term itself I do not just now arraign , becauseIcannQt b ^ - in common probably with him , think it well matched by . the- < . f * . iQ&re wanA * and " simple htimanity" of another too sportive creed : and an ^ r ^ d yta admit , that we can have no pretension to insist upon the abdication of the one , till we have thoroughly made up our minds to part with the other . * But , waiving the point , and even , in compliment to the hypothesis admitting , a doctrine of Father , Son , and Holy Spirit , to be the doctrine of Scripture ^ thecfeed dfthe Saviour of the \ vprfd hiinself , and of his immediate mission *
arles ; is tnere , I would not too ^ pettisbly ask , ; no more plausible or deejeufc rri $ de of ^ Mbiting that doctrine tha n ^ y > p « 3 sitively burlesquing the book tq which it' % r ^ red ^ in ^ the Ibndness ofc tbeir adcommodation to it ? Why ? palpably " paidd |; tMt- Sciip ^ re , * why * ostentatiously follow out that creed intp
a ! M 6 de of ^ rshi |»^ hich ^ a exam ple of their prototypes ^ while' it affects ~ l tb xest soleh on their autliority ? They would not dare i lW > aduitetafe the isaered *' : jpage ' oy such verbal transmutations as they scarcely less ;' ¦ ¦ Wanton ^ - ^ nd'ncGntiously introduce into their Articles and Liturgy ; yet wW-ffieSe ^ ihherB against tradition , in every thing but the most abject dbedtence to its authority , dter mock and insult the Protestant ear with their Scrupulous Veneration ibr the litera servpta of inspiration , even in the nun
ment and *« very act" of distorting its hallowed language into every tradi ^ tidrial novelty of combination ! Let the impeachment involve what reputable names as anti-catholics it may , is it less than a virtual dereliction of their own apology for schism that they incite , whom they would propitiate , to the adoption of such contraband patch-work as " God the Son , " and " God the Ilbly Ghost , " or challenge us to " bow the knee" to a three-one Deity ? If this be the symmetry of the Christian figure , what does die Bible present $ ut an aggregate of dislocations ? With scandals so unquestionable and
without excuse as these , there can assuredly be neither compromise not parley on the part of any commonly consistent scripturalist . These monstrolls innovations On the apostolic forms of prayer and praise seal in liitiine the lips ' of Christian charity , who must be allowed no dispensing power , wh 6 Mi nfeifhW-absolution nor apology for the theological vagaries of an after a j !? Mh 9 f ^ ie t appstles "(< ^ whfch would imply that they were ' mere tyros or mal-adepts in the counsel of God /* " Avaurii ! at once / do not the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 792, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/8/
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