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the word quotations , instead of ' ¦ passages / but notwithstanding the employment of inverted commas we found that such a term was not universally applicable . What proportion it m ^ y correctly designate , may be inquired into when the writer becomes , by greater particularity of reference and carefulness of assertion , an authority better worth demolishing .
One specimen more , and we have done with Richard Winter Hamilton . — ' It is with grief I say it , that there is no element for quickening and expanding the natural hatred of the heart towards Jesus , —the holy and the just ; no school to teach it this direction , no system to give it this encouragement , that can at all compare with those of Socinianism . ' i The piety , which is the result of divine influence , and the consequent of Christian conversion ( and we speak of no other piety ) , cannot subsist with damnable error ; but Socinianism is the concentration of
damnable error ; therefore 1 have no heart to syllogize it further . If any man have not the spirit of Christ , he is none of his . '—» pp . 42 , 43 . This appropriate text is the writer ' s own appendage , and not
our added rebuke of the spirit which he displays . He does not even perceive that it is a rebuke * It is adduced by him in furtherance of his own fearful purpose . This beautiful maxim of Christian love is seized , with rude hand , only to clench withal his own damnatory Eliminations .
Dr . Hutton / s reply is , in matter and manner , a perfect contrast to the flippant , rash , and virulent pamphlet of his opponent . He reduces its chaos of topics to something like order ; surveys them in the light of truth , and animates them with the breathings of charity * To all that deserved consideration , and perhaps much more , he has offered a plain and serious answer * The feculent dregs which could scarcely be touched without defilement , he has left to be tossed about in the limbo of vanity where they were generated .
If the question in dispute is to be decided by these two pam ^ phlets , the Unitarians may rest content . Never did scale fly up and kick the beam , with stranger twists and twirls , than Mr . Hamilton ' s . But let the would-be monopolists of the Christian name amend their choice of a champion if they please—the arguments , the facts , and the spirit of Dr . Hutton ' s letters , are n good defence against any future attack of the kind ; a shield
on which any sword that bigotry may yet be able to forge will only strike to shiver itself . The Unitarian claim to the Christian name is made out logically and scripturally , by showing what the Apostles declared and required , when they made converts or instructed tjisciples ; and it is sustained by the moral impress , on- the argument , of the qualities of ( that wisdom which is from above * and is first pare , then peaceable , gentle , and easy to be e » treated , full of mercy and good fruits , without partiality , and without hypocrisy *
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348 The Leeds Controversy *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/60/
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