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MR- fc £ Lsham ' s snucTtmss u £ on kxr . i ; cAKi * £ ttfE& * * IPEFKNCB OF AKIANISM JN HIS LECTURES , LETTER I . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Stfc , Having experienced your indulgence upon foriiier occasion ^ I request permission to thsert in your valuable Repository a few strictures upon a late publication of a worthy friend , the Rev . Benjaftim Carpenter , late of-Clapham , but now of Old Swinfortl , in Worcestershire , entitled " Lectures on the Doe * trines of Revelation */ 1 in which he bast iliade a § ever £ attack ttpon the tJnitarian doctrine of the proper humanity of Christy &nd other doctrines connected with itj not without a mixture i » f some , I am sorry to sat ^ not very liberal reflections upon those who maintain thern ^ all which are equally unfounded and iuiiust , as I trufet in the sequel abundantly , to prove *
. My worthy friend begins , in his dedication to the Etev * Hugh Wonhit . gton , with complimenting his patron and himself upon the " stedfastness of their faith / ' in not having altered their creed since they were fellow-students at the academy- ^ a distinction to fthich , wherher honourable or ptherwise , I itnxst
ironfess that I can lirmke no pretension * . On thfe contrary , I am apprehensive that I can hardly escape the oblique cerjsure which the toell-intentioned author passes upon those of his fellow-students , who having been " brought tip rfi the gloomy system of Calvin , when they began to think for themsel ves ^ scarcely knetv where to stop . " To the w hole of this charge I txittst unforturiatcly plead guilty . I -was brought up in what
iixy friend jtistly calls " tfc ^ e gloomy system of Calvinism ; " and having begun to think , I know not whfcre \ shall stop , as I still proves * to sfeek after knowledge , and am very far indeed froifi fluttering myself that 1 approach the confines of discoverable trwth - ..,. ) . ¦ But the circuriistance v ^ hich principally moves the indignation of uiy worthy friend , which has indeed tossed , him troepi
• Mr . Carpenter ' s work consists of two volumes : itjs entitled , " JLeqturcs ott the M orks of CCreation and the Doctrines of Revcl ^ ibn . * ' It " is to ~ the second volume only that these strictures are confined . It may be observed , by the way * tbat the -work is printed with a decree of incorrectness which is a disgrace to ibe Stourbrid ^ e press . E . rors abound m almost every page , and some are of such « . mature as common readers would not easily correct . In p . rao , John v , 17 . is * mentioned as an interpolated verse , instead of 1 John v . 7 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/24/
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