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senCed his Teelings to be such , that either the Unitarian or he must
quit the office of vice-president , and the company having declared very generally their opinion that their Society was formed for all denominations of Christians , the clergyman allowed the basis to be good , but denied that a Unitarian could be considered as a Christian .
This point , however , he could not get established , and he left the room , thus abandoning his post as chairman , and his station as vice-president .
The charge of not being a Christian must seem a very absurd one to the body of Unitarians in ihis kingdom , who worship the Supreme Being under the peculiar title of the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ , and the very circumstance of distributing the scriptures of the Old and New Testament , unless there was an evident design in the distribu - ter to counteract their authenticity by his tracts , is a sufficient proof
of his design to promote Christianity . The term Unitarian does not in itself imply Christianity , since Jews are Unitarians ; and there are many philosophical Unitarians ; so that our title is , properly speaking , that of Christian
Unitarians , and we are sorry to say , that we have seen reason , though there was none in this peculiar instance , for our brother Christians of other denominations ,
finding it difficult to separate the Christian from the philosophical Unitarian : the one , who looks up to Christ as the mediator between God and-man . as th £
Saviour and Redeemer , and the other who considers Christ , as merely a great moral teacher , to be ranked with other moral teachers , that have appeared in different ages in
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the world . Indeed if a minister , calling himselfan Unitarian , should studiously avoid to speak of Christ as his Saviour , his Lord , his Mediator , and employ his time in such philosophical or moral discussions , as would be
more appropriate to a college lecture room , than an assembly of Christian worshippers , there can * not be a ~ doubt , that a pious hearer would find a difficulty in reconciling such a conduct with that of a man , who looks up to Jesus as the author and finisher
of his faith , and -hence may be im ~ bibed the idea that Unitarianisin is unfavourable to Christianity ^ Such an idea we know to have been imbibed ; and we felt no small grief , that any occasion should have been given for the charge . A Unitarian will be zealous for the
honour of his God , but this will not diminish his attachment to his Lord ; and as a suspicion is propa gated against us , it becomes us to be on our guard , that as far as respects us , who acknowledge one Lord , Jesus Christ , our brethren of other denominations shall know
that we do not fall short of them in attachment to our common Saviour . The Bible Society has given rise to another , under the name of the Meeting of Protestant Friends , for the circulation of the Scriptures among Roman Catholics , and the latter have formed a So .
ciety among themselves for the distribution of Bibles among their own members * The former , society allows , that it expected the latter to distribute its own JRheinish
version ; for assuredly there could be no reason for their taking the vulgar version , made under the authority of King Jamea , and his laws of translation . But here
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State of Public Affairs * 351
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/67/
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