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differed from the general ly Q f Christians in his d ^ y , you agree with him . Uppn the principle of ypur re . viewer , and soipe of your corres
pondents , scarcely any denomin ^ . tion of professing Christians can with propriety be called after their leaders . Very few , for instance , of those called Avians ( a term which your writers often u $ e ) will
allow , I presume , that they entirely agree with Arius . Nor will the modern Calvinivts subscribe to every ti di ng maintained by Joh ?} C # hin though they are far froip thinking . his i ^ rae " a
repro ^ cfr . " $ Y ; « y thei ^ should your €€ se £ t" ( I me ^ x \ o offence by that term whi ^ fr ypu often adopt ) |> e so nuicji offended at being called j&Qciniapis , ? Be assured ^ t& ^ re } s no danger of its btjipg n ^ i ^ nd firstpod , f # your $ s .
advantage , siu ^ e Tit is . generally known th ^ jt yoa do ijpt " idolize Christ / ' , a § Spfin ^ a is ^ ti < J £ 9 have done . ^ u ^ Jt ^ oj ^ ctip a tfeat Ijbe term is " ambiguous ' is altogetfcer groundless , , si $ pe , every one kpows wh ^ Lt is rp e ^ mt by it . .
Your friends chuse . rather to be called Unitarians ? But this appellation cannot he . yiplded up to theip ^ because this c ^ rta ^ nly is ambiguous * Accordingly . Mr . Merriv ^ l noticed it i& tiis
carresppndenpe vvith Pr . ^ rdj ^ er , who did not vouch « # ie to satisfy him in what set >^ e be W ^ ed it ( with respect to Dr . W ^ t ^ s . $ ^ e the quotation at the c )§ se of your review of Mr . L fi ^ dis ^ y ' s Life- ) Though it is triie mi Socinia ^ s are Unitarians , the term cannot be appropriated to them , exclusively , since there afeofli ^ r ^ ects who claim it , and lUvp . ; % & 4 ^*' right to it . Yours * therefore
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714 Mr . Palmer an the Appellation u Socinian . **
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l&r . ^ A Palmer on the ppellation ** Socinian . " Hackney , Nov . 10 , 1813 . Sir , The reviewer of my pamphlet in your l ^ st number d oes not , in my apprehension , give a fair or
correct view of my argument ; and njany of coy readers , both orthodox and heterodox , differ from him in their opinion of the publication , thinking that I have fully proved my point , that . c < Dr .
Watts , was not a Sopiman /* nor , in your sense of the term , a Unitarian . I mean not , however , to occupy a * iy of your pages with a controversy on the subject , bat shall con teat myself with referring the . matter to the impartial
judgment sqf such of your readers as A ^ ve seen or may yet see my pe rformance . If any one of tfoepn should think fit to answer it , with bis name , I may possibly attempt 9 l defence , . with the addition 9 f something that I have iji reserve , or confess myself mistaken .
All that I at present intend is , to offer a few words to vindicate the application of the term Socinian to your C 4 sect . ' * Itis n ^ v ^ r j&fti by , w as 4 * a term of re-, p 4 roachf" nor do I think it often is % 4 > yf . dAej : S . And wby it should
be * ' oflfensive" to any of . you I jC ^ u uo t < : onc ^ ive . Though you differ in soqrve particulars from Socinus , bis character is still in high estimation among you . See Jus JLife by Dr . Toulmin . What
though he believed more than you do , it cannot for . that reason be tTOproachful to you to be called by his name . Indeed your difference from him is . only in some of the lea $ t cttfmderftWe points : as to the capital articles in which he
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 714, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/22/
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