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mr . weight ' s Reasons fob not replying to mr . proud . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , Through the medium of your Valuable Repository , I beg leave to communicate to the public , my reasons for not replying to Mr . J . Proud ' s book entitled " The Unitarian Doctrine completely refuted / ' in which Mr . P . has animadverted , with sortie degree of severity ^ on one of my Essays , 1 . Mr . Belsham ' s remarks in a former number of your Mis * cellany , ( Vol . I . p . 585 . ) I regard as a sufficient answer to every thing Mr . P . has advanced against the Unitarian Doctrine *
Mr . B . has very properly confined his observations to the grounds of reasoning , ( if any thing can be called reasoning which is built on an avowed departure from the natural sense of the words of Scripture , ) assumed by Mr . P . : to attempt to follow him through all his strange assertions and obscure and confused remarks would be equally tiresome and unprofitable . It would be like following an ignis fatuus through pathless bogs .
2 . I do not perceive that my arguments against the divinity of the person of Christ , and in support of his inferiority and subordination to the one God and Father of all , are affected by what Mr . P . has written . If I have advanced any thing like argument , it cannot be weakened by Mr . P / s exclaiming , as he does , p . 64 , ci What sophistry ! sophistry , without solid
argument , opposed to plain truth , and it must be cut up by the roots . I execrate sophistry in religious disputation ; but of that , together with quirk and quibble , I am sorry to say , Mr . Wright ' s pamphlet is chiefly composed . " When Mr . P . can find what has at least the appearance of solid argument to offer in refutation of the U-nitarian Doctrine , he will lay aside such senseless declamation as the above ; and then it will be time *
enough for me to make a formal reply . He has furnished me with abundant matter for recrimination , and turning upon himself what the above passage charges on my Essay ; but it would be useless to avail myself of it , and I remember the seryant of God must not strive * 3 ; Mr . P . and I have no common ground on which we can meet in theological controversy . His spiritual eyes arc opened ;
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122 Mr . WrighCs Reasons for not replying la Mr . Proud .
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I must know what it is ) I should be glad if Dr . WilHams , or any other equally learned divine , would explain the meaning 6 f the above expressions , to which I confess , I at present can af-€ x no idea . I am ., Sir ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/10/
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