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-&VANGELICA . L ALARMS . I To the Editor of the Monthl y Repository \ Sir , I congratulate tliose of yout readers who are Unitarians , upon a testimony to the success of our late exertions which is peculiarly valuable , as extorted from an adversary * The CQ Evangelical Magazine , ' so distinguished for its hostility to our faith , lias just devoted several pages to < 4 An earnest appeal to Evangelical Ministers and others , " To give vnott effect to this address , it is Introduced by the following motto from the prophet Joel . — Blow ye the trumpet in Zion , and sound an alarm in my holy mountain . ' *
In an appeal from such & quarter , Unitarians will expect * according to their former experience , that their religious character and designs should be misrepresented without scruple * On this occasion they will not be disappointed We are very freely classed among lc the adversaries of Jehovah ' s honour , and man ' s best interest , " and described as € C affirming the- merit of supposed virtue , while at the same time it * standard is reduced extremely low /* and in short , as ** the foes of true religion / 3 We are informed that as < c the poison of in fidelity was readily imbibed among the lower * orders on the publication of P&ine ' s . Age of Reason , it will not appear improbable that many may be attracted by a plausible representation of the Unitarian opinions ,
from no small acquaintance and some intimacy with zealous professors of Calvinism , I am of opinion that an individual of any respectability , among them could not easily be found to indulge , in his private capacity , such unqualified abuse . "Yet let him lake the pen as the organ of his party , and such a representation of tt * eir opponents becomes the very milk of human kindness , " not to call it the Christian charity of Paul , which * thittketh no evil / ' Strange however to say , this unceremonious JibeJler of Unitarians ventures to complain , I trust unjustly , of the < c extreme unfaifness and unrestrained
virulence with which the doctrines and character of those who are called Calvinists" are assaulted . He conjures cc Evangelical Ministers and others * " to ' * manifest an amiable contrast of temper , and to exercise the purest candour , truth , and impartiality / ' p Surely the author of this excellent advice in defiance of his own practice , such as I have quoted it , ii \ ust be a descendant from the ancient family of the 'Scribes and Pharisees , against whom he who ' * knew what
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/18/
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