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    himself , he ^ is solicitous to make a timely-retreat within the walls of the castle . To O * hy ho sfnal 1 surprise he' declares that ' he does not even know that ho is an Arian , " but that iC he appears to himself to hold the doctrine of

    the Nicene creed / ' Now whoever knows any thing of the history of the famous council of jNice , and its equally celebrated Creed , knows that it was a long time before the holy fathers could

    devise any effectual means of excluding their wily opponents from the pale of the catholic church , till at last , by good fortune , one of the venerable paternity hit upon the word " homo-o \ isios / '

    con-substantial . This talisfnanic word , like a horse-shoe "hailed upon the thresh * old , has ever since proved en insurmountable obstacle to the Arian intruder , and for fifteen centuries has maintained the immaculate

    purity of the orthodox church . I he nearest approach which an Arian can make is by ( he word % i homoi-ousios , " ( of similar substance . ) But this will never do . And if be obstinately persists in

    detaining the vowel i , in his heretical Creed , lie shall , as we are taught to believe , *> without-doubt perish . everlastingly / ' Now though my worthy friend gravely doubts V whether Christ is a created

    being , " he strongly insists , that he is u derived iron ) and dependant Upon the self-existent Jehovah . " It is impossible therefore , notwithstanding all his pe ? zchant to

    orthodoxy , and his eagerness to enlist . himself in the holy battalions' or the elect , that he can ever squeeze through the ttarroiv homo-ousian postern . I am even confident that he cannot advance a single step beyond the dreadful barrier

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    of homoi-ousjos : and if so , l <* t me tell him , that he is an Arian convict ; and that whatever hfc may think of it , like the honest citizen in the comedy , he has been talking Arianism all his life

    without knowing if * However * as he seems disposed to recant his errors and to abandon Arianisni to its fate , 1 am not unwilling to join issue with him , and so peace be to its ashes .

    - 3 . My worthy friend , though he acknowledges that *< he wrote something calculated to hurt my feeling ?) and that he might justly expect some retaliation / ' complains that I have retaliated upon him " fourfold / ' Which shews that my friend is more ^ exquisitely sensible to a stripe which he receives , than to a stripe which l ; o inflicts . This indeed is natural and common . " I have received **

    says he , ** fourfold . " And yet , I do not recollect that I ever charged my friend , or his partisans * with being " bold and blind , ** I never accused him or them of

    calumniating th <* " moral character" of Jesus Christ , nor of \ viU fully corrupting and mutilating the scriptures because they did not like the-doctrine which they taught . I never said that my friend ' s arguments were calculated

    to produce an effect diVectl y fhts reverse of what he intended by them : much less did I ever insinuate a charge of impiety against him , for maintaining an hypothesis which to me appears to involve

    contradiction nnd absurdity . X ^ can easily conceive that my fr . ieml , like many wise arid good men be * fore him , may have fallen into ^ n ? at erro r upon , a subject to which he does not appear to have paid , very close attention , without

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    Air . Bchham ? s Reply io Mr . Carpenters Hem < tr ? c $ . 3 S 7 j

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/5/