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    their creed ; the Unitarian ; does the same ; though it is to be feared after all , that the mass of » sect do not moralize upon their faith . We shall conclude these

    strictures with a quotation from Dr Priestley , from which it will appear that he , no less than the Eclectic feviewer , wished to extract from bis opinions the essence of true religion , universal holiness ; though we should not be surprised if some one of the same school as

    the reviewer , vvere to conclude from the passage that the doctor ' s exhortation to his party is an evidence bf its being egregiously necessary ; in other words * of Unitarians being notoriously defective in virtue .

    We ^ who profess whet we wish to be considered as rational Christianity , / have least of all any jtist excuse for a deficiency in that temper and a want of those good Works , whidk our religion requires ,

    We , depending upon the free tn ^ rcy of God to the penitent , reject the idea of being saved by any righteousness that is not our own . \ Ve believe that no man can obey &he law ^ of © wt lor another , or * ttflfefe tfeer punishment due to the

    « ftifl 6 s fri another ; and we dis-^ itAtlieiielifef of any tiling what-^* e r Ending in the place of moral ifataer We believe the gospel tSfeth to containa sufficient rule of li % and aiso sufficient motives to

    the observance of it * Astherefp re ^ lay breftoeni ' we not only name the ttamh tf € krist , and profess out ^ lv ^ to he his disciples , but thin&iJifttr ' tfe prbfess it in greater

    fKifclty thatataai ny othei $ > let us give f >* 60 f tff it by departing farther frottf trifr iniquity , and by beiitg * pecutim people zealous of goad * vork * J » * Discourses on the Evid . ° f Rev ^ Relig . 8 vo . 1794 . p . 385 ,

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    On Believing vdthout Ideas * Sir , . . ^ I was much amused and pleased Mfith the ingenious but decisive way in which your correspondent , ^ $ 0 . modestly signs himself A

    Learner , proposes his query on < c be . lieving without ideas . ** It is not , I suspect , very likely ttjat he will obtain an answer from the quarter whence he appears to expect it : but perhaps neither he nor / ypur readers in general niav dislike

    a reference to one or two respectable writers , whp have tyea ^ ted the subject with winds r pretty much under the influence of the same train of ideas ^ wfef ^^ * ° have had possession ofj ^ i

    If he has never see ^ the excellent " Essay on the E ^ eilef ^ f Tfiings which ^ are aboyij . Reasoa ^ ^ which forms the tenth of a , ci dplfection of Tracts / published hyi ike late excelieat Geprge 0 ensoii f ft- ' !>• lie will , I am sure , on . pemsal , thank me for having p bintecl it out . But as the work of which

    it forms a part is * I believe , pretty easily procured ^ I shall content myself with merely referrHig to it ; and dwell more at length upon a

    treatise of great v £ | t # e bi | t very little known , entitled ' " Ireriicum % or a Review of some L ^ te Cotitro * versies on the Trinitv private Judgment , Church A ^ th , Q ^ ity ^ &c . by Benjamin Penn ^ Jt / ' the excels lent author of the ^ Chmiiaa

    Oratory * , printed for Roberts , Clarke and Fo ^ i f ^ f — ia pages 19—23 of whictf are the follosing ln ^ portau f re marks ;—u Whatever ^ ^ i ^ ^ on trusty or in \ yha , tey ^ V i iistaVcei ^ we A ^ p & q ^ n ^ as top ^ t particul ^ f , aqrf m eyery

    •^ A Memoir of tbte Aiilthbf , Hy Dr . Toulmin was inserted in our % f \ d voLp , p ? 34 » > »«* 453 t Bdit

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    On Belie&ing without Ideas . 155

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/27/