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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository-.
SIR , Among the extraordinary occurrences cf the 17 th century , wore those which related to the man in the iron mask ; his whole history was concealed in
obscurity ; -an impenetrable mys * tery hung over his birth ; rnysterv attended him all his days , and when he died , mystery shrouded even his tomb in perpetual' darkness : so it is with your correspondent the chiirc / miau (\) . 1 R 4 . ) View him in \\ hatc \ er way we
please , it is next to impossible , to learn who he is , from what country he came > to what tieito - mmation he belongs , and to what motives \ ve are to attribute his disguise . lie has covered hiiVi - self with a mask of iron , ( -ome wicked wight may perhaps say it is of brass , ) and having clollied himself with obscurity , which Ue
deems an impregnable armour , aftd abundantly anointed himself wi \ h the vuine vary of sel f . con fid ' enct ? , this redoubtable knighterrant sallies forth to fight the windmills of his own imagination ^ The wary Unitarians , whose doctrines he has distorted , a »\ d over whose dead bodies he fooped triumphantly to scale the ran ? parts of Christianity , have smiled wirh
contempt at his fierce oftset ; and having parried soiled his nvue direct thrusts , have quietly left him To tliQ more serious ' casiiga * ticm < yf thf ; t church , whose ban-Jiers he has assumed . Bat beivreckihctAvo , ibxve flfcity be soiyjjc
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tAStlGAUORVANSiWtll TO THJ £ CUVB , CHMA ^
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danger of his watkirvg over tire field , in imaginary triumph , and boldly exclaiming veni ridi , ticu For iny own part , I am outs of those whx > think tfrat this nttack ousiht to be viewed in all its ' bearings , and with nil its consequences ; that the cfiurchmatrg letter was intended * as an act of defiance to Christians irr general , to i » ird on their armoiir , nnd
come forth to ' produce their * strono- reasons . The occasion ' CD inav nt ^ t cull for the exercise of ' all their energies ; but it may pei ^ haps be a work of somtf utility to stifle this champion in the dust of '
-his own arguments . The ITiriiarian controversial is tSw having ck » - cliwed a conflict , in which so * little honour wits to be acquired * and in which thrirrnvrr peculiHr * tenets were so Ibtle c < J * iconicdi have left the fii id open to nny ^
who choose to take up the gttirnt ^ let . Taking up the subject then ' upon more general grounds , w& will proceed Xo oxaTnine the . am * phihious' portion aissurne ^ by nut ' icnight with the wofulcotentenajnce * \\ ith one foot in the water ,, and * the other on the land , he boldly / lauticheb this tremc / ndo'trj inissil * er
weapon : * there seem to be aT least sjx imp ' onant points of doc ^ trine generally held by the iJnita * . nnm tiiil as tinrensoTittble as any doctrine tatigtrt in other church * cs . " Mark the rigid impartiaHyr of xhis ^ eii 4 o 11 s chitrch m Ctn / hu % ' us a general assault would avail but little , he WUtarcs xxpoik vfbfrt *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/13/
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