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^ Jaipa faite , even itf t \ ife m ® Ae * o f stating it ; for hi » Jogomachie ^ however abundant , are anything but specious . _ The Unitarian oaipe is to be denied to us , it seems , as well as the Christian name- It had been conceded , but the concession
was abused , and is recalled . Such is Mr . Hamilton ' s position , which is made out , with his own singular felicity of argument , by alledging four cases of presumed abuse , occurring , on an average , more than twenty years anterior to the concession , df which he affirms his knowledge of them to have produced the
reyoeation , Mr , Hamilton insists on calling us Soeinians , because he ' surmises ' it not to be offensive , though he knows that it is offen * - siye ; a _ nd because it describes tenets which we do not believe , and therefore generously hides our want of faith , and is ' cerr
tainly injustice to the dead . ' We thank him fqr not calling us Trinitarians , for they also believe more than we do ; they also deny pur being Christians , as hei endeavours to 6 hew the Polish Socinians would ; and the propriety is , therefore , completely made out by this very original canon of criticism .
Amongst the insuperable difficulties of Triniterianism , is that connected with the opinion of the Jews , of the time of Christ , ou the diving personality . Whether it is affirmed or denied that they held the strict unity , consequences follow which Trinitarians cannot easily dispose of . Their more cautious controversialists blink the questipn . Mr . Hamilton boldly takes one side of the dijerorna in p . 48 i and as boldly tabes the other side if * p . 49 ,
: M ** Hamilton introduces , a joke on the Foreign Secretaryship of thp Unitarian Association , by professing to ' believe' that the only native Unitarian of India is now in England- The joke ought to be better than it is , considering the ? costliness of its purchase . We know Calvinists , with no stronger obligations or better means for knpwing the facts ,-r-who would not profess such a belief , could they become thereby the authors of all the jokes in Jpe Millar , or the possessors of ftll the wealth in the Bank of
gnglandf In hi § eagerness tp accumulate the qharges of impiety and guilt upon th $ Unitarians , tjiis writer forgets that he decbrisrtjanizes Calvin and Jonathan Edward * i th ^ former of whom is well known to have been no Sabbatarian , and the latter the great
teacher of philosophical necessity , a doctrine deemed essential to Calvinism , pntil its adoption by some Unitarians made it damnable . BJjnded by the storm of his own vituperative declamftUon , he unthinkingly throws his own prophets overboard to sink in tl ^ e bottomless gqlpl | .
letter YJ , contains » long QoUectioq pf short passages from writers some of whom are ,, and others « re not , we apprehend ^ Unitarian Christiana ; t \\ v $ e . nm , * t ^ ken from tl * ci * cQpae ^ i o | i * end 6 ^ hit > ite « i aft . iUwt ^ Uwa . of Sociniftu blftsphQisy . We haxl wfittm
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/59/
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