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who considers that he has an adversary prepared to dispute with him the reputation of well-ordered life , will examine his * principles , regulate his conduct , and form his character witl * peculiar attention /' I am ; Sir , your ' s , Feh . 17 * 1807 * bereus .
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MR . BELSHAM ' S STRICTURES UPON MR . B . CARPENTER ' S D £ F £ NCE OF ARIANISM IN HIS LECTURES , ' ^ < i LETTER II To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Sir , The subject of my worthy friend ' s first Lecture , is , Candour with respect to religious opinions ; " and he introduces it with a remark of Dr . Kippis , in his life of Dr . Lardner . " A sentiment / 5 says this respectable writer , which I should wish to be generally impressed is , that the glory of our holy religion statvds firm on every scheme . " This is a sentiment
which my worthy friend professes < c cordially to embrace /* In his estimation , ¦ ** it is soothing to the mind , and like oil poured upon the boisterous waves , it calms the angry passions and tumultuous feelings of the soul . ' * Against this doctrine I must , however , beg leave to enter my deliberate and firm protest . I am unfortunately one of those persons who in the
language of Mr . Wilberforee , are so obstinately dully as not to be able to see how the glory of our holy religion can be made compatible with the doctrine of transubstantiation , the invocation of the Virgin Mary * the worship of images , the doctrinp pf indulgences , or the gloomy system of Calvinism , which dooms infants to eternal misery for Adam ' s sin . To my
becloude 4 Understanding , these and many other doctrines , which might be added , deteriorate and deprave the religion of JeSus , and render it in some of its forms more objectionable , more incredible , and more derogatory to the divine character than Jleathenisrn in its grossest state , from which , indeed , ; it differs in nothing but the name . Nor can I by any means approve of
such a representation of the little importance of the differences which prevail among ; professing Christians , as it tends to encourage that indolence and indifference , which precludes disv cussion , which makes men contented with any system which v they Vnav happen to have adopted , and which would for ever preveht the extricating of pure and genuine Christianity from the mass of error in which it has bc en for ages enveloped and
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Mr . Belsham ' s Sifitttwt&Qri Carpenters Lectures . 133
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/21/
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