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ot Unitarian , would be quite effi-i e&ciex&sy if their ministers were encouraged and empowered to held up their heads and to lift up their voices *
- < Foqr > thie freedom of these few sentences I make no apology ^ feeibg T » £ S ^ K OF A Pi tESBY'iMiWAK Minister *
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Prayer of an UnbelieceK Stifc , libefklity of sentiment has ever appeared to me to bfe a proniinetit feature in the character of Unita ..
ffan ministers ; that they should therefore assume as a truth ( whifch appears to me to be the case ); in € ommt > n with the most illiberal irjd ^ Tejudiced champions ofChristianity > tthat immorality and pride
gfe almost invariably the parents of infidelity , has F confess excited itry aStonishhtent . Did not his religion teach him to suppress it , a rfeafChiristiatvwoul d feel indignation at having his motived and conduct classed with those ^ of the herd of
jprofossing Christians ; and upon vCrh&t pretence dttes he confound tftte gentutre attd the professing itfff . < fttf f If iji the investigation of trutb , Cirictllnsta ' nfces ' over which he had
perhaps no controul , have fortunately Wd tHfe Christian to the adoption of a faith replete with ttife most powerful motives to vif * tu ^ , to the excitement of the most sublime and delightful feelings ,
and to the most soothing consolation under every affliction , he should surely pity , and not cond&nn tHe mm , who , in an ardent and disinterested pursuit of the
same object , has unfortunately , but irresistibly , takfen a moi ^ e gfoomy path . Infltieiiced By a nrfeh to rtmve d prejudice ^ riworthy of the respectable class to
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j which these efcsei v ; ations refery I send you a prayer whicb fell by chance into ray hand ; it proceed * ed'from the pen of afi infidel ^ and he had Iunderstaiid been for some
time in the daily h ^ bit using iu Should you give me that credit for purityqf motiye , vvhich I deserve , you will I thin 4 allow it a place in your Repository . A Lovek oe
Justice-Oh ! Thou ete ^ tfl Author , Preserver and Governor of t \ U 6 world , teach me to know tbf will , and enable mg to ^ perfo rm it ] Teach me to love the ^ i to fea ^ thee , to serve thee , and to obey thee ?
as 1 ought . If the OhrisW&a ? b * Hgion be indeed of divide otigitoy if it cotitstins doctrines and pffe * cept ^ whic h thoU h a ^ t designed fe # the belief ; thfe consolatrioh , gtrfE the direction of man , enli * 4 tteh
my undeftitanding , add pre ^ aVe my heart , that I may be enabled to perceive its tratb , to feel its ^ power , tfnd to abt r * p to its di ^ vine injunctions * Should pride , should prejudice , should
attachment to aiiy worldly object hav ^ so enveloped m ^ e witfe darkness , as to render ^ xneincapabl ^ of perceiving this heavenly communication , dissipate , Oh , God ! those cloudy that the rays of this divine 4 igftt
may penetrate and convince my understanding ; b * it if reason bb alone the light which thou Imtt destined for my guide , illumine that reason , assist me to correct it where it iy erroneous , to humble it wher 6 ' it is presumptt ? ous , atid
so to regulate it , that it ntay ledd me to the knowledge , a % d to 4 hw practice of duty * MsLf it te ^ lr me the necessity of restraining , evety impatient , every s ^ lfi ^ ew € * y indolent fietfHngi of cuitittrat * ing the virtues ot re ^ igrt « tk > n / h ^ l ^ mility , piety , fortitude , Ml £ » de *
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186 I&a ^ Ws ^ m * UnhbliewXi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/38/
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