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    OBSERVATIONS ON MR . BELSHAM ' S ANIMADVERSIONS ON MODEUN ARIANS . f , IIM j ¦ - > j To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Sir , . From your well known impartiality , 1 hope for | Jie admission im * o your valuable miscellany of a fc v observations upon a writer , who l * &s in a very- able manner jfilled m ^ ny-of your pages ior a considerable time .

    Mr . BelsOBiH , in his last letter on Mr . Carpenter ' s lectures , says truly , that ' M it i ^ difficult in . con . trov , emy to observe a proper medium ; and language is sometimes taken in a sense different jfrom

    what the Writer expects a < nd intends" Is it mistaking Mr . Belaham ' s intention or the import of his language ^ to say , that his re-* marks on the * non-descripts / ' ^ s he calls those who believe in the simplepre-existenceof JesusChrist , contain invidious and

    uncharitable reflections upon their moral character ; for when u no motive can be found for tbeir usurping the name ' of < Arian , unless it be to screen themselves from the

    reproach thfct fa ; annexed to the obnoxious term Socinian , and perh aps to . save the credit o £ their

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    great moral teacher , " go ye aud do likewise ! ° To you ,. Sir , and to such mep , I have _ great pleasure in subscribl ing myself respectfully , Yours and theirs , JOHN CLENNELL ' ¦ k .

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    134 Observations on Mr * Befokam ' s Animadversions on Modern Ai * ian $ t

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    trifling exertion , might establish y&vv useful libraries , in those towns ( or even villages ) xvhere there are none yet , I would hold out the efforts and the success of these two or three active friends of information at Greenock , and add , in the impressive words of our

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    orthodoxy ^ by joining occasionally in the popular hue and cry against those who profess the primitive faith of the proper humanity of Jesus Christ / ' is it not accusing

    them of insincerity in the first instance , and of malevolence in the ^ econd ; and if they expect . to save the credit of the it orthodoxy by this ' conduct ; tvte may add fa third , of weakiies j of intellects to

    which their opinions ate by sobe iwiputed : for ^ woe fully mistaken arc ? they , if thej ^ hppe for thtis ad vantage frdm assuming the nawe of Arian ^ since the orthodox alloxr them nd better qtTarter than th ^ y

    do Socinians , and' -the latter holding them in contempt , wbat temptation can they have to usurp a . name reprobated by both parties ? It indeed requires W small degree of courage to ttvo ^ t it in such circumstances .

    Mr . ; Belsham observe * that-these niain-dcucripts ( they are obliged to htin for raising them from their negative class by giving them the name of > * * semi-demi Arians / 1 * 4 u * e Unitarians in as strict , ft

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/14/