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iwit , tfca € right * i € Ws of Christian truth a ¥ e erf high importance ; that they hkve a powerful bearing on moral improvement * But how are such views to be
communicated to our hearers , unless we state and explain the facts and doctrines of the gospel ? It is not by incidentally mentioning , nor by indirectly bringing hi to view , the doctrines of truth , that men will be
convinced of error or led to true scriptural knowledge . jCeitainly , we should never attempt to build doctriaes on detached texts , nor teach them as mere dogmas : yet , it may not be improper to refer to a number of texts , to shew what
is the current language of scripture on a particular subject , provided the passages referred to be com * plete sentences , and neither
figurative nor ambiguous . Though it appears to me most consistent and bfcst calculated to do good for a minister fifUy to declare what he believes to be the truth of God , I
am ' very far from taking upon me to say , which will be the best mode- for him to adopt in his particular situation , to bring Ms hearers to the « knowledge
ofit ; yet surely it must be his dmy to do all that he can to bring them to the knowledge of the tfuth . - No doubt , " those mirtisters who preceded the present gi * toeration of Unitarians had
judiciousl y and effectually prepared the way for them / ' They liad done it by producing candour and Christian liberality in their congregations , and by teaching them
that Christianity is a system of wioral excelI ' eticy . Some of them hfcd < tkme abundantly more : by th ^ ir Writings on theological sub-JMfts ^ femflabours in the field of *^» tta * Versy , they prepared the way
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for what Unitarians are now doing . It is readily admitted they labour * ed , and we have entered into their labours . The question is not whether the mode of preaching formerly adopted Jby some of the worthy ministers who preceded the present generation of Unitarians , and which certainly in many
instances produced good , was the most proper at that time ; possibly , it was the only practicable plan they could adopt to effect any good in some situations : but whether it would be either proper and beneficial , or otherwise than
injurious to the cause of truth , to continue it in the present day ? Whatever might be the state of things and the mode of preaching adopted among our brethren in Lancashire and Cheshire formerly ,
I rejoice , and I believe you rejoice with me , that " Unitarianism is . now preached among them as the doctrine of the gospel , and evangelical righteousness established on evangelical principles / ' With best wishes for the success of the labours of
the ministers and the prosperity of the churches in the before-mentioned district , I am , Sir , very respectfully , Yours , &c . R . WRIGHT .
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On Humility . Sir , Having remarked how earnestly and repeatedly Jesus Christ points out to his disciples his own
example of humility , and being well convinced that humility is a necessary foundation both of goodness and of happiness , i have at . terrtpteel a short description of the valuable frili € s which ^ nkturally spring ^ rpnif Chrmt iaii humility : and shall be very glad , if you
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Vh ' lfumiliey . ' ~ 58 ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 589, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/29/
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