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132 Evangelical Alarms . r
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Critics . The list might have been considerably enlarged and perhaps it may , hi some instances , have been contracted by prejudice . It is however large enough to lead < Evangelical Ministers" into discussions , with which their publications sufficiently shew that they are at present but little acquainted . They may thus learn to distinguish prophetic inspiration and revealed doctrine from credible history and the sincere and respectable , but liuinan and so fallible reasonings of the historians themselves . Nor would it be surprising if they soon discovered that the famous text of the Three
Heavenly Witnesses , which has stood for ages a main pillar of the trinity , is nothing better than one of those pious frauds by which Christian simplicity was so early corrupted . It cannot fail I think to alarm some u Evangelical Ministers * ' to find an orthodox brother recommending in such unqualified terms the Greek Testament of Griesbach in which that text is freely exploded . On this occasioiv the author of the , Appeal has very properly acknowledged " the munificence , of the Noble Person , ** long a professor of the Unitarian doctrine , who has rendered that work accessible to theological studeu . s . . -
I ha ^ e now offered tp vour readers the substance of a pa ^ per which they would hardly have looked for in the Evangelical Mag azine , a publication generally calculated to suppress , raUier than to promote religious inquiry . As to the misrepresentations of Unitarians in that paper , we have but ill counted the cost of professing opinions unpopular in the modern Christian world , not to esteem it a very small thing to be ju ! g _ 'd of man ' s judgment /* and bhall readily forgive the author this wrong for the sake of his endeayours $ f > introduce among his orthodox brethren a new order ofVtffings , from which , judging by experience , we should expert the- happiest effects . In icligiousjnquiry , we must rejoice , even as Paul says , of preaching Christ , though it should not always be accompanied with good \ viU toicllow-inquirers . In the mean time ., let us provoke one another only fci to love and to good works /* and learn ev . v from a Heathen Moralist how to profit by
our enemies . Piutarchin a treatise on that subject has the followir ^ -passage \ hich may suitably close this letter , as capabl c-i a truly Christian application . 6 i In the theatre we ofin i \ A ' performers indolent and inattentive , while they piay «> r s j »> : alone , Ij * it ^ hen they strive with eac h other for the ui . ' . su ; vy tiK-y Hot only rouse themselves but they *!* . ;« ' : Ik-t instruii' ^ nfs with ex traordinary care * they arc nrore ci . ! iior , 3 in the ci ) O ! ce of their strings ,, and . try their iKHL : ^ in xiequeut and harmonious-, conceits . —Just so , jhc
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/20/
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