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firm assurance bordering on presumption , oxx truth and falsehood , right and wrong : this may be chiefly owing to their ignorance of the universality of the right of private judgment ; they claim and exercise that right for themselves wliich
they virtually deny to others . Every man ob-ght to be fully persuaded in his , own mind , without incurring uncharitable censure for mere difference of opinion . When we direct an honest inquirer to read the Bible and to judge for himself what is truth , yet , if he happen to draw some conclusions different from pur own , tell him that however serious
and good , he is no Christian , and has no scriptural hope of salvation , and deny him all Christian intercourse and affection because he follows not , with us ; do we then allow
the right of private judgment ? Whilst sayiqg and doing alL that we dare to disquiet him , are we acting according to the spirit of Christianity ? Are we not rather sinning against the great law of the Gospel which , commands us to '' love one another } " We ought to judge men not merely by their opiilions but by their works— "By their fruits ye shall know " them . " We have some reason to believe that this reprehensible
illiberaiity of the Unitarian Baptists in Yorkshire is decreasing , and it is to be hoped that time and reflection with higher degrees of knowledge will possess them with that arrnable temper , which " rejoiceth in the truth , " which ^ hopethall things , " and iC thinketh no evil . " London Jan . 16 , D , Ei
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ON DISSENTING MINISTERS PL . AYING- AT CARDS , To the Editor of th ? Monthly Repository . Sir , Relying on your candour and promisp that all sides may have £ candid hearing through the medium of yotir useful Miscellany , I shall hope the following letter will soon find a place in the Monthly Repository . I am , Sir , your ' s , P , Q-
J now find I was not mistaken , at least in part , of what would most probably happen , if my Letter to a young Dissecting minister on the subject of card-p ^ a } ing should ever see the light . Though . 1 am not very fond of controversy , I cannot resist the temptation of taking some notice of one or both the papers which animadvert on , that letter , a * nd which appeared in your number for December . * All candid discussions are favorable to the interests of trutli and
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On Dissenting Ministers playing at Cards . 12 S
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* Vol . I- pp . 644 and 64 $ ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 125, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/13/
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