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; jialion to prejudge the question , and to bias the minds of the populace ? Or can any representation be niore flatly contradicted by successi ve ages of controversy ?
1 will only notice one instance more . It is notoriously the praclice of Messrs . Belsham and Co . to affect a feeling of mingled
horror and commiseration at the miserable impiety of the Calvinisis , as a set of " gloomy idolaters /' J say , to affect it , for these gentlemen must in their own consciences
inow , that in point of fact Calvinism cherishes in its votaries feelings of the most lively ( and as their opponents would represent
it , even ) enthusiastic devotional pleasure ^ ami that no worship is so constantly marked by vivacity ami ardour as that which is presented to a triune Jehovah .
As for the imputation of idolatry , it is evident this can never be with justice applied to the worshippers of Jesus , till they are in their own minds convinced that he possesses no claims to their homage in the cbar&cter of Jehovah ,
Thus , Mr . Editor , I have hocestly brought forward a few out of innumerable instances which prove that the charge of arrogance , of prejudice , of religious cant , is applicable to many of the very party which is most forward in
disavowing it . For the insertion of these remarks I rely on your professed candour and liberality . ^ is possible that some one of y ^ r correspondents may not wink it beneath him , by way of Emissio n or reply , to notice even ¦ A TRINITARIAN .
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tetter- to 0 young Dissenting M-- ' - ¦ ' , ' ¦ ' nister . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ > ' " rl
% & ? a * Frien < J A * you arc shortly to settle as
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a Christian minister at ——• — .. .. ' . I am persuaded you will take iii good part a few hints of advice , from one who has &t least the claim of some years experience to urge on their behalf : and who is
conscious that for want of soiii gj such suggestions on his own entrance on the ministry , he has himself fallen iiito many neglects and oversights , which , by their help in early life , might in some good degree have been avoided .
I have no doubt your mind is deeply impressed with riie importance of the office which you have undertaken , and that it is your earnest wish to discharge its duties ih such a manner as to answer
all the valuable ends of i . t .. Under these impressions , you will not only be constant in the study of the sacred scriptures , that great storehouse of religious truth and duty , and in your endeavours to prepare out of them , from time to time , such a course of devo ~
tional exercises and religious arid moral instructions , as may be most effectual to impress the trutjhs and prospects of revelation upon the minds of your hearers , so as to produce the best practical ef . feet- but you will be desirous also
to render yourself useful to your flock , as well out of the pulpit as in it ; and for this purppsc . you will endeavour to arrpjpge , your plans for regulating your ipter ~
course with them during the hour * of leisure and relaxation , so as « lf < ¦ ¦ . •¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ 7 'f ' > . 9 ^ rmost essentially to server tppse . important interests foi ^ thej pronxoi ^ oja Tof which your connection witjx them has been formed With this view it is ^ oatund , and I persuade myself jt is ri p * ^ q * cortitndn , for yo ^ n ^ nii-n |^| pa . to < make ' the first objects of their purchase and careful perusal some of
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Letter to a young Dissenting minister . " 471
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/23/
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