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? I'Aird wliftt have I done ? - ' What dooms i&e to this ^ kcRisidn from Jundrress and wonted-respect ? What is the ** act tKat roars « o ldttd * and thundersin the index P >? What provoeative has filled the spirit of my accuser with such a mighty orgasta of feelrng , and iaBhes his extraordinary powers of sensibility into action ?' : — - * Angit , Irritat , tnulcat , falsis terroribus implet Ut Magu » . ' ' The discovery which is to stun all human ears , and to exceed all human imaginings , —the potent pregnant prodigy of uncharitableness , —is , that the believers in the Holy Trinity—in the atonement , hy the death-of the co-equal Son , in human nature , on the
crossin the renewing influence and work of the Lord the Spirit , —do not esteem the denial of these doctrines to be Christianity , nor the rejectors of them Christians . What astonishes us is ; that any , and particularly yourselves , should believe that we ^ ovld ? - —p . 3 . Passing over the similitude of the extraordinary portrait ( very like a whalej here presented of his calm and dig nified opponent , we observe that by the first phrase marked in italics , Mr . Hamilton
has , notwithstandirig'thfc added words , volunteered an absurd and blasphemous appearance to his own doctrine , which was quite uu > necessary ^ and gratuitously stigmatized his own faith . By the second , he has misrepresented his opponents , who certainly never assumed to be Christians on the ground of denying any doctrine whatever * And by the third , he has misrepresented himself ; for so far from being astonished that an Unitarian could suppose it
possible for a Trinitarian to esteem him to be a Christian , he knew very well that we always give them ail credit for so tnuch justice and common sense ( charity is not required ) , until they positively assure us to the contrary . Then , indeed , we are compelled ^ however regretfully , to believe them ; but this credulity is not what astonishes Mr . Hamilton at present . As to the Mack of kindness
and wonted respect / we can imagine how the ' elfin humour / which the writer claims , would have treated such a persecution as that of pending the printer ' s boy instead of the Doctor ' s servant , had the combatants been on the opposite sides of the question from those for which they now contend . He would have remarked , in his fcharaoteristic manner , that there could be no reason to complain of his having sent the devil to his opponent , with his pamphlet , since his opponent had sent him to the devil , in his repl y * Mr . Hamilton affirms , in the title of his work , that religionists , fJesignatiBg themselves Unitarians , * are 4 not entitled to the Chris * tian name . ' A a might be expected , he speedily proceeds to desighate-himself so , thereby , Qn fciis own principles , unchristianizing himself . And not only so * but he seems to think that the right to th 6 appellation of Unitarian rests on the use of specious Ipgompm ^ ; # ? will not whatever hi * spetiofa Ih ^ omwhie ^ suffer aliy man to be more rigidly Unitarian than jpyBelf ^ The
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/58/
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