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was in maii ?? has warned his disciples ^ because they say an < 3 do not . " But your Unitarian readers will expect to be gratified with a little evangelical commendation . Here again they will not be disappointed . , Their tract societies # re described as
making vigorous exertions . " The public sermons ot their ministers have of late been much more doctrinal and controversial than has heretofore been customary ^ among them . —In some of their congregations , peculiar pains are taken to
confirm the young people in the Unitarian doctrines . —Village and itinerant preaching are objects to which thsy now give much attention , and which they are endeavourrng to introduce and extend in their connexion . They have already obtained some itinerant preachers who manifest both zeal and talents . —To aid in the prosecution of these plans , a fund
has been instituted ; and spirited exertions are made | or " its support ai )( i increase /* Such is the representation of oar present state of activity , the promotion of which is charged , in a great measure , not I believe without reason ^ to the circulation of your Magazine .
However Unitarians - may value such a testimony to thie zeal and success of , thfcir exertions * , they will derive the most solid satisfaction from another part of this € C Appeal / ' where very judicious counsel is given to " Evangelical Ministers , ' * though rather ' novel , from an orthodox brother . They are
instructed u to make themselves properly acquainted vyith the true nature , the proper grounds and the due "bearings of the points in controversy—To study the statements and arguments of their opponents in their own writings "—because u passage , ( however literal ! v quoted ) broken oflf from its
connexion / will frequently present an aspect widely different from the design of the writer /* This very just remark I hope ci Evangelical Ministers * will not forget when they quote the New Test-amenl . They are further recomrnended "to possess a ' more accurate knowledge of ecclesiastical
history than most persons on either side are at present fumishel with , " and as an € C object of supreme importance very insufficiently attended to by many excellent friends of evangelical truth , " to become proficients in " Biblical learning . ' * 4 < In this 'department " says the writer ( c lies the principal
strength of our adversaries , " a concession which we readily accept as an answer to a thousand misrepresentations by the less informed amon ^ c the orthodox , who are fond of describing * Unitarians as better acquainted with any book than with the Bible . ' In pursuance of his plan the author of this Appeal rcc ' omnifend . s " the very important labours ' * of a number of Biblical
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/19/
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