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must be content to be called Socinians till they contrive some other n&me which £ Hall be express sive of their distinguishing opini * onsf and then the former shall no longer be used by your respectful correspondent . S . PALMER .
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Strictures on a recent publication of Mr . Palmer * s . No . I . Sib , Nov . 2 d 9 1813 . I cannot fee astonished that different religious societies are eager for the honour of enrolling under their several banners the name of
Dr . Watts . 5 * Such he was , ' ' said Johnson , ** as every Christian church would rejoice to have adoptedi ** Ytt tvhile I give foil credit to Mr . Palmer * for the
stoc&ity &tid ^ eal with which he enters oft tine task of vindicating the % ufcj > e € ted ortfaodcfcxy of a fa * vourite divine , I carrnot coinpli ^ merit hhn ton the success of his
undtrtakmg . He stumbles at thfe ve * y threshold . His title . page is at ance needlessly offensive and glaringly incorrect . Who feas affirmed that Dn Watts was a ^ odnian f Lardner attests that
" tta lait sentiments" of this very fcxfcellertt rodti , Were completely t / ttitarian . " and what Lftranef meant by Unitarianhoty carefully and precisely he ^^ erirtrif tiatfcd between the opinions eo denominated and those
wbkh characterised Socinus and tbe Polish brethren- ^— is evident to evfery < reader of his works , t N ^ r is Watts classed by Mr .
« 4 ^ ffelW ^«* cfent pamphlet entitled f mt&GcmfJoVx . 619 , ^ c .
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Belsham J among Sociniaiw . The catch ^ words therefore which stand at the head of Mr . Palmer ' s
pamphlet , have no just relation to the matter in dispute . If this gentleman plead ( 27 ) that the term Socinian is less ambiguous
than Unitarian , I must deny the fact . Mr . Paitner is accurately acquainted ( few men more so ) with the appellations . by which
the respective bodies of professing Christians are distinguished : be is aware ( no man more perfectly }}) that the attempt to fix upon aoy one of those bodies a
denomination which they disavow , which they maintain to be altogether inappropriate , and which in mos-t instances has an invidious object and application , is a species of
persecution . Granting that he has proved Dr . Watts to have been no Socinian , he has not , x > f course proved , ki contradiction to Lardner . that he was mo Unita
rian . Undoubtedly , there is a description of persons who will take a livelier imerest in this series of letters , when they glance on the sentience in the very front of it ; upon this set of m&n , th ^
slaves of ignorance and prejudice , wonders are wrought by the iwagic energy of names ; hence the antipathies of some and the prepossessions of others are awakened in a moment . But Ibese , 1 presume , are not the readers an whose favour Mr . Palmer
calculates , and to whom he addresses bis theological and literary labours . On consulting a former publication of this gentleman ' s § I learn J MemoTXti ' of Liadsey , 217 . j ! Postc *< h > t , 44 , 45 . § Life off Watts by Dr . Jch ^ QA , vriXix Notes . &ot 96 . ftc »
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Strictures oh a recent Publication of Mr . Palmer ' s . No . J . 715
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 715, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/23/
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