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to those who existed previous to the time of its supposed accomplishment ; and thirdly , because the language of John Lacy ' s prophec \? is so coin pie tely Billingsgate , as to render it almost bias -
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ANSWERS TO THE U CHURCHM AN ' s" REPLY , BY AN UNITARIAN AND MR . ALLCIIIX .
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For ihe sake of bringing both the following Letters inro tne present No . we are obliged to print them in a small type- It is desirable , as we have before stated , that the controversy provoked by the Churchman should be laid to
rest in the present volume . The Svpp f enteiit will a fiord room for any further brief communications . EDITOR .
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and it appears from his reply to a Unitarian Christian , that he ou ^ ht to have levelled his attack against Christians for believing the scriptures at ail , for he has no objection to our believing in the Divine xmity ; it would therefore have been fairer and better understood , to have
first openly avowed that Unitarians were irrational for believing in the Christian scriptures on such evidence , and then having Relieved in them , to connect with them a belief of the doctrines of necessity and materialism . The plain question stripped of all disguise between your correspondent and
Unitarians then is , are they rational in believing in the Christian revelation upon the evidences afforded them ? He says they are not ; for denying their inspiration , they yet acknowledge them as fully equal to complete instruction in religion upon evidence not satisfactory , l
for < k is very unreasonable" says he " to believe , that plain men , such as the apostles , could be sufficiently accurate for our purpose , ** in their account of what they saw and heard at such a distance of time ; " could this be expected from the rude fishermen in quetion ? and when was this conversation , and when
were these discourses committed to writing and by whom ? History is silent ! When were the books written and by whom , that we now have in the names of Matthew ,- Mark , Luke and John ? Discard then the notion of inspiration and they are left without ; i known author and we have to repose our
confidence in the powers of observation , memory , and judgment of we know not whom ? " This appears to contain the full force of your correspondent ' s argument ; and if we can satisfactorily answer this , all else he has advanced must fall to the ground , because Unitarian * as a body are not concerned in any of his other objections . To this I would
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^ To the Editor of the Mon thly Repository * SIR , Having been an attentive observer of the discussion between the Churchman and his Unitarian opponents , and having
intended , had I not been too late , to have made a few observations upon his first letter , I will by your indulgence now do it and incorporate into it such additional ones as his reply has suggested to me . I am induced to do this from
a persuasion , that his letter is calculated to do some mischief to young persons , and to all those who have made but a slight or superficial enquiry into the subject , hoping at the same time to furnish a jubtification to some Unitarians at least , for calling themselves " Rational Christians . "
Notwithstanding the defence which the Churchman makes , in his reply to Mr . Belsham , of writing under an anonymous signature , I cannot help thinking it very disingenuous to write under one , to which , if I am not much
mistaken , he has no title j for whatever he may think of Unitarians in other * respecta , I assure him they are not so stu- ? pid , as not easily to discover under his pretended character of a Churchman attacking Unitarians , a real unbeliever assailing the evidences of Christianity : w
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6 & 0 An Unitarian ' s Answer to the Churcliman s Riply .
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pliemous to suppose that it could have been dictated by ' the spiiit of the Almighty . I am , Sir , Your ' s , &c . VERITAS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 660, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/24/
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