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    of the Irish Church have to be accounted for by the English Church also ; it being the universal law of partnership , that the acts of some of a firm are considered as being done in the name of the whole . Thus will the consequences of the Irish errors be made to fall upon those who have lent a hand to uphold them : thereby confirming the justice of that law of nature , which ordains that vices should carry their own chastisements in their train . '—pp . 63 , 64 .

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    56 Critical Notices . —Controversial Pamphlets

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    Four Dialogues between Mr , Smithy a Churchman ; Mr . Stedman * a Unitarian ; and Mr . Wilson , a Calvinist 9 relating chiefly to Mys ~ tery and the Trinity \ Original Sin or Depravity , and the Atonement . By Wm , Hison . London , Hunter , 1831 . An old story in a new dress , and the dress such as to give new interest to an old story . The writer ' s classical predilections may have had their influence in determining * the form of the publication . Certainly his conversance with Plato , Xenophon , and Cicero , seems to have aided him in preserving the characteristics of the interlocutors and the spirit of the discourse . With their excellences are united an ease and simplicity of style , so that ' the sense ( to translate from Quintilian ) is obvious , even to the careless reader ; striking the mind as the rays of

    the sun do the eyes , though they are not directed upwards to it . * WicklifiVs * Trilogus' shook the Babel of papal corruptions to its base . We are not without a hope , that Hison ' s ( ask the * Editor * if this is not a nom de guerre' ) trilogus may do much to undermine these bulwarks of Antichrist , ' mystery—the Trinity—depravity and atonement . ' Nor do we doubt that this tract would be found more useful than a long and systematic dissertation with those who are ignorant of the Unitarian Controversy ; especially if persons of limited time and mental cultivation .

    While we approve of the general spirit of the piece , and the sentiments and arguments brought forward , the writer of this notice would point out the following passage as one which requires qualification . They ( the Unitarians ) have fabricated no system , by which they have ready access to the pockets of their flocks , on behalf of associations , and societies , and missions , of which the exaggerated accounts

    at a series of meetings create an excitement and a charity , which are more easily accounted for than approved . They rigorously exact no * ' penny a week" from their poor members : in fact , they do not expect the poor members to give anything ; they issue no quarterly tickets ; they do not eagerly catch at every passing opportunity to preach two sermons all the year round . These are not the questionable

    acts of the Unitarians . Whatever party spirit they may have , these elements do not enter into it . The Unitarians are as concerned to observe these deceptious arts of popularity in others , as they are averse to use them themselves . ' Our own opinion is , that all these plans may not be ' arts —still less intentionally deceptious , ' and though there is much over-doing among the Orthodox , there is as much neglect among Unitarians . The selfish principle is strong enough to keep people's money in their pockets ; to draw it thence an antagonist of some power is needed ; and though we

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/56/