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my intention : nor is such an inference justly deducible from my remarks on the Epfetle ; unless Breviloquiis is prepared to assert with me that the sacred writers were in reality Uni £% ians ; in the
simple and primitive meaning © f the term , viz » as believing and teaching a that the Father alone was the most high God . " It was only with their writings that I compared any parti of the Epistle ;
and not with the general doctrines of the Unitarians , according to the mo ^ ferrv acceptation of the term / ' al : E ^ % viloquus seems to have imagiifld . Under this im pression , he says , It is not my intention at this time , to enter
into this controversy . It has alreadv filled voltimes . " If Brevi-«/ loquus should favour you with another communication oi ) the subject ^ I hope he will give a reference to the works in which this voluminous controversy , between the Quakers and Unitarians , is
contained . I was not aware such mighty contests had ever subsisted between them in any period of their history . If Breviloquus refers to any controversy that may have occurred in u the Society of Friends / ' he has not correctly described the discussion he speaks of . However , although he declines for thte present ^ entering into this controversy , or into an examination of the principal strictures
in my letter , he says , I am one of that people who have seen his remarks , and 9 as far as I am capabld of judging , he has well understood the Epistle in question /' Before I proceed tb consider the remainder of this sentence , I have a few observations to make $ > n the admission of Breviloquu $ ,
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that I appear to him to have rightly understood tfte tenor of this Epistle * If so , it may not be amiss to review what I staped it to have said * in those passages which ap * peared to me most exceptionable . This was ,
1 st . That it ; inculcates the duty of Applying for hel p ^ under a sense of our wants , not to the bountiful giver of * every good and every perfect gift , the Father of lights , with whom is no variableness neither shadow of
turning , " but to one cc who himself received help from another . " 2 dly . That a declaration of Christ ' s mentioned in this Epistle , * ' is not truly stated ; " but
without any authority from the text 5 one person is substituted for another ; the Son , for God the Father .
3 dly . That the immediate consequence of this error apparently was to hold up Christ as the objectof cC secret supplication , " instead of his Father and our Father , his God and our God .
4 thly . That this Epistle , m opposition to the uniform testimony of the scriptures , plainly insinuates that the natural talents which mankind possess were bestowed on them by Christy without any mention of the Father ..
5 thly . That this Epistle , without any warrant from scripture , ascr ibes omnipotence to the meek and humble Jesus . ,
Of these several points , Breviloquus has only noticed the last , although the purport of the others is as Expressly included in the inquiries he professes to reply to , as the one he has selected for examination . It appeared to me , on first perusing this fepistle with attention ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/30/
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