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    controversy when prevailing error is about to be assailed—who are ready to make the most charitable allowances for a popular system of divinity , but are signally severe in their judgment upon any which appears to be at all more unpopular than their own ; who coldly sanction a form of

    wor" shrp ^ for"the ~ dissemination" of-whieh they scruple to afford one penny of their money , or one hour of their time ; if we are content to be Unitarians of this description , I have no great expectation of success . To what purpose should you urge such an individual to promote the objects which we have in view ? Gallio careth for none

    of these things . But if the Unitarians of Ireland could be roused from their indifference ; if a miracle could jbe wrought , and the dry bones live , much honest prejudice might be overcome , and much dishonest clamour

    effectually put down , by a firm unflinching avowal of our opinions . In considering the course ^ which we ought to pursue inthe advocacy of our sentiments , I have often thought that the respective conduct of two celebrated men in the sister island , both of whom

    embraced Umtariamsm , and desired to propagate what they had embraced , might furnish an instructive lesson . In one of the most enlightened periods of English history , when opinions upon many important subjects had been weighed in the balance , and many of them found wanting ; when , in ; politics , the glorious revolution had preserved a nation's liberties ; when Newton and Locke—those Unitarian

    worthies on whom M $ Harris passed this morning such a splendid panegyric—had brought under subjection the worlds of matter and of mind ; it was to be expected that theology , though , always hanging back , ( should nevertheless participate in the general

    advance . Accordingly , a man of the most profound and varied talents , a most accomplished scholar- —in natural philosophy selected to translate the Principia into the language of the learned , —in metaphysics the worthy

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    antagonist of Leibnitz , a distinguished ' favourite with royalty , and the most popular preacher of his day , became a believer in the simple Unity of the Great First Cause , whose being and attributes he had previously demonstrated in a noble work which still maintains its pristine reputation : I allude-of-GOurse-toJD . r . ~ SamueLClarke .

    Now , with respect to religious institutions , the doctor was a bit-by-bit reformer . The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity is written with an evident disposition to outrage as few prejudices as possible . It sought to win the Church to Unitarianism , by affecting to find Unitarianism in the standards of the Church : and this course

    seemed for a time to prosper . If the Convocation murmured , Clarke strove to soothe the Convocation ; and he gathered so many personal influences about himself and his opinions , that the latter were thought to have spread far and wide . But what finally became of this attempt to smuggle truth unavtaes into the Establishment ; this attempt to put the nejiv wine into the old bottles—the new doctrine in the

    old creeds ? What became of the Thatched House petition , and the 250 ministers who signed it ^ -the pamphlets of Archdeacon Elackburne , and the speeches of Sir George Saville ? With the exception of Lindsey , Jebb and Wakefield , who manfully seceded , what became of all the rest I Of the

    many who were healed , how was it that these alone appeared to give thanks ? Unitarianism , Sir , at that period , sprung up quickly ; but , because ithad . no root , it withered . * In an after day another champion , less cautious in his tactics , issued from the ranks of the orthodox dissenters . As long as the highest moral worth ,

    united to an ardent longing after truth , shall command respect , the name of Priestley must be held in reverence . This great man adopted a course of proceeding , the reverse of that pursued by Dr . Clarke . He cried aloud , and spared not . With him there wa » no attempt ; to conciliate

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page 72, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1813/page/8/