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&e * as mistaken . Wow ^ ver I do jiot regard thi * noiion * i < h ^ r as 41 primary or secondary trutb of ffeligjon , npr 0 n the other hand 4 o I regard & ** . a * a 4 fc * rcdit to a maa of understanding ^ No wq ^ i der that my friend te ** 4 » NKty str <» n ^ ly iActiatft to fhis opmtofi / 9 since it was quoted from him own
-writings . Mr . B . is astonished that t should sp
which wfcs enforced by some of the wisest nations of antiquity * I ; Ri £ po loss astonished at what he has written on thfe' siftgcscr , and should have thought it had pro . / ceeded irottt some jealous bigot , who denied the salvability of the heathens . Does it follow tjbat
because I commented their piety 3 approved of their superstition ? Was there , not M wide diffefeilCe between the fables of the poets and the . opinions of xhe philosophers ? Would he ^ irgue against the Chri ^ ian reli | jion , on account of the ridiculous cerett ** ttie «
which previ ^ led the d ark tfges of the chutcb ? I acknowledge that I regard superstition and eft . thu » 1 asm in a more farou «« ble light , tban 1 do atheiwn and irreligion . I am better pirased
with that spirit which the Phi . listines discovered , when the ark of the Lwrdi was brought into the camp of the Ivraehtes , * nd they cried out wo unto usy who shall deliver us out of the hand of these wigMf god * , — I mm better pleased
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with that * 4 * ilfh 1 b ^ 4 p < m * kemtetibf potwt f * bmn i ^ + itii their - $ u& *^<* & ^^ tied the GW ^ f Imtet it i ^ i . ^ deed » t g ^ m ^ Ifew tltt * « U * e $ toires * * nA tfl the
* yt + u ^ e tttt ^ er go ^ erdittfit and c < iliilM < tfo < ie supreme ^ od ^ € hb is the cjmSSi of all Cbristians , and it was aUo the caiman of Zoroaster , Confucius , Pythmgorasf Socrates and Plato ^ ^ ixh their numerous fdHow ^ rs ; and it
was by degrees that the theology of the hei * t hens became degene rate wpi corrupt . Perhaps if my friend bad * MKlied ancient history as much as he hds metaphysics he would have thought more favourably of some of tke sagfcs and nations of amiquity .
I w called « pon fn tlits letter to revert to Br ; K wbo ^ e meimofy I respect , though not as * he& > - factor to Ae Dissenters ? i mta chaHenged to prove that his « rlit ings tended to lessen our revextiKm for the author of our reUgioiv und the )> ook # which contain Up
li is not necessary * o « ay muohoa this subject ; if his denying file infallibility and impeccability of Christ , and tile'low notion * which he entertained of the inspiration of our Saviour , do not prot ^ e Wh ^ t I advanced , 1 « x : &nowledg £ that I anv incapjible of proving iu
-Mr . B . seemn to think thtt there is nothing clear in iriy le < % tunps # excepting . my avereion to Socinii » nismr Now I own ) th % t 4 cannot ? deliver my sentiments in
? I ha ^ c Itc ^ ra th « t jtfter . F . attended debutes of HotLtt of Commons onth * repeal of the Twt Ace , he went to the house of liis Print ^ tls ^ tid Jrote hit [« ettc ? r to Mr . Pitt , which he published immediatel W y without oonsultiag * W friendb . Whatever ^ polo ^ y may be made fi > r wJbiU »* uups wl ^ ten feha ^ lf 1 believe tl « fc no publication cyer ilid «» > nuch injury to , * te ciiwc of . ^ hc &if « b |» ^ V attd 1 4 m not ai ^ ular in my opinion , tlxnt ft Would fcat ^ tccfaa profrerWto * they had cbmctom » rd , as a bf ^ y ^ and disavowed il * ? OJL , lit , S- ]»
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/25/
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