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tigation of the genuine doctrines of Christianity , and in detecting and exposing its corruptions merely because he has published tenets repugnant to the deep-rooted prejudices of the : P . C .. and in some cases different perhaps from generally re * ceived opiriions . From the same principles , Sir Isaac ' Newton ' s system of philosophy might have been condemned because it militated in a high degfee against prejudices , and differed to to coelo from tjbe generally received system previous to its introduction .
Such a conduct as the P . C . has adopted in respect to Mr . Evanson ' s Tenets , is unworthy the liberal mind of a scholar / and unbecoming the spirit of a true Christian . . v The P . Q . did not think proper to waste his time , according to his own expression , in attempting to confute Mr . Evanson ' s opinions ; but he has wasted it in a much less honourable way in attempting to detract from the merit of one of the truest friends of genuine Christianity , by mere arrogant assertion * But the ipse dlxit of the P . C . will not , I trust , be deemed an axiom by any of your readers . He appears particplarly shocked at the idea , that a sabbatical observance of Sunday is riot a Christian duty , and thinks proper to be particularly abusive in
speaking on this subject ^ although he neither attempts , nor is able to controvert , in the least degree , what Mr . E . has ad- ^ vanced in support of his opinions . But apetitioprincipii , of which he is guilty on this subject , is not to be passed over ; he says , that the observance of Sunday as a sabbath , has existed in every age of the Christian church . That this was the point contended for , by Mr . E's opponents , is well known tc * many , perhaps to most of your readers , and it is equally well known that they entirely failed in their attempts to prove it * or to invalidate the arguments of Mr . Evanson , which were sufficient to convince an unprejudiced mind , that no such observance existed in the earliest centuries , and consequently that it could not have been enjoined by Christ or his apostles .
Notwithstanding the insinuations of the P . C . in which he has displayed neither candour nor good sense ; notwithstanding the feeble attempts of that narrow-minded writer to prejudice your readers against the tenets of Mr . Evanson , they stand oil too firm a rock to be in the least shaken by so weak a blast . The doctrines which the P . C . has condemned , will assuredly thrive in the world , and the writings which he has stigmatized , will be admired and esteemed by every discerning , unprejudiced reader . I am , Sir ; PaiLAJ-ETHES .
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Reply to a Plain Christian * 129
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/17/
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