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^ th € ir fe % pective edifices of woo d , and liay , and stubble . " . 'T&e Arian introduces his subordinate maker and governor of we vvdtM : the ' Trinitarian his three equal persons in ^ tfie godhead : the Caivinist his condemnation of the hunian race to eteftiki misery fbr Adam ' s sin , and the Papist his HSoUtrQiis Worship ofsainfs and martyrs , and his licentious doctrine / j 5 f indulgences to sin * These and other gross errors vhrch . h ayje been engrafted info the Christian system , though not ail equally absurd or equally pernicious , are , to * say the least , useless incutnbrances to Christianity , which iinpede ^ ts progress in the world , and which diniinish and sometimes ^ ie ! v oi ^ V counteract its beneficial influence upon indivjduals . " ^ n 4 ' U is th ^ part of tru e wisdom arid benevolence Yo gppose find to correct these errors by the fair arid honourable ^ e ^ i ^ af sound argument arid rational criticism .
My worthy frtend is u in theory convinced of the , ut ; nity < jf cbntroversv ^^ but he disapproves of € t the angry ^ iritpf debate . ' ^ So likewise do I . At the same tim ^ e it . " nitisi t > e admitted that the asperity of controversy is often useful ^ 4 s it stings the disputahts to put forth all their strength and ' tHus affords tlie impartial by-stander a better opportiinjty . of forming a correct judgment on which sid « the evider » ce prepoqderates . And at any rate an angry controversy whicli rouses the energies of the mihd ^ is infinitely irnoje beneficial to
irxfCviduals , and to society , than that stupid indifiererice , that listless torpor ^ that morbi d indolence jof spirit , ' . " which falsely 93-suming the sacred name of the love of peace , benunibs the faculties , arid with its leaden maoe ^ opposes an insurmountable obstacle to all mental improvement . It ipust ^ however ^ be 4 x 1-liiitted , that a generous warmth arising from a deep sepse ^ bf the importance of the subject , and an earnest solicitude to qtiligbten and to benefit rnankind , without any mixture of pei ' - sdrial animosity , is the true spirit which ought to abirriaie theoloecical controversy .
cc Tnere is ^ indeed , " says my respected frieniJ :, ic a period ctf life at which it is best for a person to lay asidq conferov ^ rs ta l books , or to peruse them only as objects of curiosity , XV K ^ n a pdrsori has attained the middle period of li / e , wfien " . his fiqijU ties have acquired their full vigour , when he is consciou ^ ttl ^ t he has exjamihed with some fairness those questions whiejh h&yv been controverted by Christians in all ages ^ wneh he is persuaded th ^ at nothing new can be advanced on either side of the qil ^ stipii , them let him make up his wii ? d , iiV ^ t ^ adM ) i 2 U ^ wi ^ &g farther , and live under the influence of those principles which he has embraced . " - ¦« ... Upon this singular advice I beg leave to remark , first , iivat
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/25/
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