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but arc no heretics . Heresy is in the will and choice professedly against i | cripture ; error is against the Will , in misunderstanding the
Scripture , after all sincere endeavours ( o understand it rightly : tehee it was said well by one of the ancients , Err I may ^ but a heretic / will not be . It is a human
frailty to err , and no man is infal . lible here on earth . But so long as all these profess to set the word of God only before them as the rule of faith and obedience , and
use all diligence and sincerity of heart , by reading , by learning , iy study , by prayer for illumina . tion of the Holy Spirit , to understand the rule and obey it , they have done what man can do : Gcd
will assuredly pardon them , as he did the friends of Job , good arid pious men , tho * much mistaken , as there it appears , in some points
of doctrine . But some will say , with Christians it is otherwise , whom God hath promised by his spirit to teach all things . True , all things absolutely necessary to
Salvation ; but the hottest disputes among Protestants , calmly and Charitably inquired into , will be found less than such . The Lutheran holds corisubstaritiavion ; ah error indeed , but not mortal . The Calvinist is taxt
v / ixh predestination , and to make God the author of sin ; not with any dishonourable thought of God , but it may be over-2 ealou * ly asserting his absolute power , not
without plea of Scripture . The Ahmbaptist is accused of denying infants ih ^ ii right to baptism ; a . gairttfce ^ say , they deny nothing biiti W 4 ikt the Scripture denies th&fl : Tm AVl&n and Sociriian
iflfe-ctoifged-j& dt $ | % tfragainst the Tritfity iih % aBirBa tti betfeye the
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Eather , Son * an $ Holy , Qho $ t , ^ cording to Scripture , and the apostolic creed ; as for terms of Trinity , Tnniunity , Co-essentialwy Tripersonality , and the like , they reject them as scholastic notions not to be found in Scr pture , which by a general Protestant maxim is
plain and perspicuous abundantly to explain its own meaning , in the properest words , belonging to so high a matter , and so necessary to be known ; a mystery indeed ia their sophistic subtleties , but ' ia
Scripture a plain doctrine * Their other opinions are of less moment . * They dispute the satisfaction of Christ , or rather the word satis * Jactiortyy ^ as ^ ttpt scriptural : but they a < &nowledge ^ him both God andlheir Saviour , The Arminian ,
lastly , is condemned for setting up free will against free grace s but the imputation he disclaims in all his writings , and grounds himself largely upon Scripture only . It cannot be denied that the authors or late revivers of all
these sects or opinions were learned , worthy , zealous and reljgiq \ j » men , as appears by their liyej written , and the same of their many eminent and learned
followers , perfect and powerful ip the Scriptures , holy and unblameable in their lives . * and it cannQt be imagined that God would desert such painful and zealous labourers in his church , and ofttimei
great sufferers for their conscience , to damnable errors and a reprobate sense , * who had so oftea ini * plored the assistance of his SpfirU ; but rather having made no man infalliblethat he hath pardoitcd
, their errors , and accepts the « pious endeavours , siriciprely ^ jT ing all thing * accord . ^ to the tuw of Scrijrtuire , withr ' i& ® ^ fS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/30/
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