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    But what has all this to do with the argument for or against the proper humanity of Jesus Christ ? My friend adds , ( p . 40 . ) " Here a question arises of some importance : whether the system of Mr . W . or of Mr . B . be . best adapted to promote reli gious and moral excellence } " He chuses to decide in favour of the former , arguing , as he says , " fro # i observation and from fact : " but what these observations and

    facts are , my good friend has not thought proper to state . He tells us however , that cc Mr . Fuller wrote a book to prove the superior efficacy of the Calvinistic system when compared with the Socinian , and " I thought ( says my friend ) when I read it , that he had established his main point . " " Dr . Toulmin , ( continues he ) has endeavoured to parry these home thrusts , by shewing that the first preachers of Christianity converted

    multitudes / although their sermons , ( so far as they are recorded , ) contain no doctrines different from those of the Socinian , i . e . the Unitarian Creed . I think that he has also proved his point , but without disproving what the other has advanced / ' Mark this , gentle reader . The doctrine of the apostles was strictly Unitalian . But this doctrine is not so efficacious for moral purposes as Mr . Fuller ' s Calvinism . I thank my friend for his honest and liberal concession . I , for one , shall adhere to the doctrine of the apostles , whatever becomes of Calvinism and its

    heart-withermg ; terrors . And I have no doubt that the plain simple doctrine of theTsTew Testament will still be found abundantly efficacious for moral purposes , and will ultimately triumph over every op * posing system of human folly and puerile superstition . My friend designates the body of Christians who assert the proper humanity of Jesus Christ by the name of Socinians , at the same time professing , ( p . 42 . ) that ' * he docs not use the

    word as a term of reproach / We however , do not answer to that name , nor do we approve of being distinguished by it . In the first place , because the doctrine we hold is not borrowed from Socinus , but is known and universally pillowed to have been coeval with the apostles . And , further , we differ very materially from the opinions of that very great and good man , and his immediate , followers , who strangely imagined that Christ , though a human Heine , was advanced by God to the

    government of the whole created universe , and was the proper object of religions worship . It is the part of candour to give to every party and denomination of Christians the appellation which they themselves prefer : though not perhaps in every re-i speet strictly appropriate . We call ourselves Unitarians , or , to distinguish ourselves from other classes ot Christians who assume that name , proper , or , original Unitarians ; a « d we regard ourselves as entitled to this distinction from prescription ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/29/