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INTELLIGENCE. .
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frotn Psalms Ixxiii . a 6 , ( the words adopted and appropriated by the deceased on her death bed , ) to a large and deeply-interested auditory . The writer of this imperfect sketch of eminent worth , which he had long contemplated and admired , has now only to in treat the indulgence of the reader to any of the foregoing expressions
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ITNITARIANISM IN AMERICA .
We mentioned in p . 48 , that we had received a packet of Unitarian Tracts from America . We now give our readers the promised account of them . In former ' volumes we narrated the history of the first Unitarian church , in Philadelphia . It is by this society that the Tracts are published . Private
letters represent the church to be in a flourishing state , and the cause of truth to be gaining ground in that city ; though the character of the people prevents the hope of a rapid change of opinions . " Here , " says one of our correspondents , in a letter dated Philadelphia , Nov . 21 , 1809 , " the people have neither the same degree of curiosity , nor the same spirit of religious investigation ,
as with you . The American character is cold , and the perfection of our religious liberty , produces indifference to religious subjects . The episcopal clergy are sensible , judicious , moderately orthodox , complete Arminians , but cold and frigid . While among the Presbyterians , Baptists , and Methodists , you meet "with all the Puritanism of the
seventeenth century , both as to quaintness of language , and illiberality of sentiment ; and these sects are the great and overpowering majority . " In reading the Tracts , we were pleased
to find in them a number of pieces from this work ; our correspondents and readers will , we are persuaded , rejoice with us , in this extensive degree of usefulness , which the Ofconthly Repository has already attained .
The Tracts are printed in Svo , neatly and uniformly , and are numbered in succession . Nine are already published ; the tenth was in press when our letters were sent off .
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which may reveal the ardour of friendship , but which , he is confident , betray none of its blind partiality . He drops his pen , humbly entertaining the hopes of Christianity . Amiable , excellent spirit ! Farewell—safe in the keeping of Almighty Power—till the Resurrection ! Hackney * < A .
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No . I . is a Discourse on Free Inquiry , delivered Nov . 1 , 1807 ; of which we have already made use . No . II . consLrs of Bp . Law ' s Reflections on the Life and Character of Christ .
No . III . concludes the above article , and contains also , a judicious Summary of the Evidence of the Spuriousness of 1 John , v . 7 , 8 ; the basis of which is an article in our fiist volume , p . 297 , by
Dr . Carpenter , and a Cute \ hism forOTcutk , on Unitarian principles ; which is simple and scriptural . The Catechism has been printed separately from the Tracts , together with a shorter one , suitable for children of an eariy age .
No . IV . is A Defence of Unitarian Principles ^ occasioned by certain passages in the Rev * A . Alexander ' s Discourse , delivered before the General Assembly cf the Presbyterian Churchy at Philadelphia ,
May * 1808 ; read by the author , R . Eddowes , befoije the Philadelphian Church . We hail this beginning of the Unitarian controversy in the new world . The reverend divine treats
Unitarianism , or , as he denominates it , " Rational Religion , " in much the same manner , as it is treated by orthodox preachers in this country . He is plainly
ignorant of the subject . The " Defence' * is well adapted to its object . ~—Next follows part of Dr . Disney ' s Friendly Dialogue between a common Unitarian Christian and an Athanasian ; which also occupies the beginning of
No . V . in which it is concluded . In this number are , al » o , A Letter to the Reh > . Mr . /) ., by a Layman , in consequence of the writer's conversion to Unitarianism , which is argumentative and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/46/
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