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ticular , in the Jewish worship , and as tht ri ghts of citizens have been secured t * that sect , it will be provided by wise laws that they shall renounce the old forms which separate them from their fellow citizens . "
Every word of this article emanating from authority , has its -weight and meaning . The phraseology of this article , if it can be allowed to have any serious object , must refer to the removal of that unfathomable source of error and confu
sion , that overflowing mint « of mistake . and mischief , the Athanasian creed , u'hich has hitherto been equally as much a stumbling block between Jews and Christians , as between Christians them * selves of different denominations . There are many reasons for giving credit to the plan now agitating in France ; for as
no civil society can exist without religion , and as neither the reformed Catholic religion * nor the Trinitarian Protestants , are likely to fill the pulpits , or meet the " public ear in regenerated France ; these considerations may have excited in that government , a dispositioa to adopt some other system , as it is
expressed , more agreeable to the doctrines taught by the Great Founder of Christianity , and requisite for our enlightened age . The progress that your -work is making in the noble task of elevating and improving the human race , affords fresh proof that a very great portion of moral has arisen from
depravity in society , our nJscanceptions of the character and attributes of God . The imaginary Trinity of persons that have been worshipped among the Protestants has conjointly tended to perplex the divine testimony , and deprave man who is the subject of it . In the Trinitarian systems , man is often put for God , and God for man #
Hence offices have been applied to Christ absolutely foreign to his character , flattering in the end , but idolatrous in their object . Thus for instance the opinion of his judging the world , which i * So jusfly controverted against the notion of an Arian writer in page 46 a of your number for Sept . has originally arisen from not attending to the fact that "whatever is spok * en ** f Christ , in a . doctrinal smsc , a * al *
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UNITARIANISM IN FRANCE . To the Editor of the Moatbty Refdsitary . SIR , A few months ago , I had tlie pleasure of recommending an extract from the Universal Magazine , upon this subject : at present I have that of congratulating you upon a more extensive and magnificent prospect of its dissemination . It is sufficient to
observe , that this original , this grand and simple truth is beginning to display itself » pon the Continent , under the auspices of the greatest statesman and reformer that ever distinguished the imperial
purpie , or the regal diadem . In this case indisputable facts and imperishable events , speak more forcibly , than any panegyric whatever , too often liable to suspicion .
Very few , the bigoted catholics , and some of the high church-politicians of this country excepted , have expressed any regret upon -what the Romish superstition has suffered from the French devolution . —But it required men whose ideas were far advanced beyond the common level , and whose minds were depurated from religious prejudice , and
the tyranny of custom , to see the necessity of reforming the reformation ^ and of putting an end to the Protestant ^ as well as the Poflth drtgon ; for binding the daemon of persecution , and drying up the source of religious animosity , hy closing- the mouth of the abyss or bottom iess pit of pretended mystery ; and la tiy » by proclaiming with the authority of an angel from Heaven , " that
WHERE MYSTERY BEGINS , RELIGION 1 NDS . " This it appears is what is now in agitation in Fiance- in an article inserted in the continental papers dated from the Batiks of the Maine , Aug . 21 , it is said , Our Journals contain the following aiticle :
44 There is a talk at Parjs , of a closer union of the different sects of the Christian rtligion , agreeably to the doctrines taught by their Great Founder , and such as is requisite for our enlightened age . A great reformation is intended , iirpar-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 612, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/48/
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