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misslbility of the unscriptural doctrine of Amis and all its collateral ramifications and consequences ; and unless there be one law for Arians , and another for all denominations of Christians besides , he must allow me , and others who think with me , the same liberty of expressing our conviction concerning Arianism which he himself takes concerning Calvinism or popery .
My worthy friend appears , by the account which he gives of himself , in his sixth and seventh Lectures , to stand ( ticklishly enough , indeed ) upon the highest pinnacle of Arianism ; and he tells the gentleman to whom he dedicates his book , that he wishes to shew , that those which he deems the peculiar doctrines of Christianity are neither irrational nor unscriptural . "
My friend is by much too serious and solemn to mean any thing resembling a joke : but such is his method of treating the subject , such the scantiness of his proofs , and the breadth and liberality of his concessions , that a person who did not know him so well as I do might be excused in suspecting him to be an enemy in disguise—some unlucky wag— some Gregory
Blunt * , whose true design is to betray the cause which he has undertaken to defend , and like a noted infidel of the last age , who attacked Christianity from a masked battery , that his intention is to prove that " Arianism is not founded on argument / 5 But as this supposition is inadmissible , we
may reasonably conclude , that if the system be capable of no better defence than what has been advanced by my worthy friend , the case is perfectly hopeless . Most assuredly , Arianism , after a long slumber of more than twenty years , does not now Tetnrn to the encounter with the vigour and energy of a giant refreshed : but , with the feeble effort of palsied decrepitude , it
launches a pointless weapon against the impenetrable asgis ofc truth , which drops harmless to the ground ; and if nothing more satisfactory can be produced ( and I know not that it can )^ by the remaining advocates of a declining cause , my friend's book might with justice have been entitled " Arianism at its last gasp / 7
la a succeeding letter I shall ^ with your permission ^ resume the subject ; and ^ in the mean time I remain , Sir , Your humble servant , Hacknev , Feb . \ 2 , 18 O 7- 1 \ Belsham .
* See «* Six more Letters to Granville Sharp , Esq . By Gregory Blunt , £ sqT Printed for Johnson , irk Sc Paul ' s Church-yard , 1803 . With an Appendix , £ »» - taining a Table of Evidence © of the Divinity of Mow * . **
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8 2 Mr . Belsham s Strictures on Carpenter ' s Lectures .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/26/
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