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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
SIR , A gentleman , styling himself a churchman , has introduced a topic into jour valuable publica ^ tion , which , to be fairly discussed , ought to be fairly represented . He asserts , that Unitarians are not rational Christians : by which he evidently means , that
Unitarian Christians are not rational Christians ; and upon this point I am willing to enter with him upon the discussion . But first . it will be necessary , that we should understand clearly , what is meant by the term Unitarian- Christian :
and , as I am one myselt , and on this account left the church , to which this gentleman belongs , if he means by churchman , a member of the church of England , I shall in few words state , what I
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aitd many others understand by the term Unitarian Christians , The term Christian does not require long explanation ; by it is meant a believer in Christ : and , as the' believers in Christ are
divided into * a variety of sects , the term Unitarian has been applied to one sect , which believes , that one only God exists in one person , in opposition to ( hose Christians , who believe that one God exists .
but in several persons . The Christians , who believe , that the one God exists , in several persons , attribute different names andquali * ties to these persons : the
Unitarian Christian believes that person only is God , who is styled Jehovah in the Old Testament , and in the . New Testament , tJbe God and Father of Jesus Christ ,
determination toilje traders ; and told them , th ^ t they continued obstinate , they would put it into execution the next morning . In this they kept their word . They brought sixty-six guns to hear upon the town : and fired on it for three hours . Not a ehot was returned . A canoe then Wjent eft " , to offer terms of accommodation . The parties however not agreeing / the firing re-commence 4 > more damage was done , and the natives were forced into submission , 'Xhetis were no certain accounts of their loss . Report said that fifty were killed , out $ o # } c werfc seen lying badly wounded , and others in the agonies of death , by those who went * afterwards on shore . " . Cl * rks 0 n '» Hist , of Abol . ii . 36 **
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"What became of them afterwards was probably never known to their ffidids in England . Yet Mr , Charles Wesley ' s attention to tfceir improvement * was highly meritorious ,. 'and it is- with no small satisfaction that I have recorded one of the many Chris *
tian charities of a rt&ti wfeom I was taught to esteem when I wa $ very young , and for whose cha .-racter I cannot fail to entertai n an hereditary , respect . You i * s J * T \ RUTU
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296 Unitarian * Rational Cfttistiatis . . ¦ ¦
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THE FALLACY OF THE CHURCHMAN ' S ARGUMENTS , TO PROVE THAT UNITARIANS ARK NOT RATIONAL CHRISTIANS , EXPOSED .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/4/
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