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far more dark and dismal than any corner of any of the old cathedrals graphically described in the publication from which I have extracted the note . It is impossible that the writer of the note
should have read Mr . Jones ' s book , except indeed the preface , whence he has extracted a line or two . But then if he had read only the preface with as much sound judgment as orthodoxy , he would have known his man better .
Whatj Sir , are the puerilities of Unitarianism ? The Unitarians are advocates neither for bells , nor altars , nor sacred vestments , nor confirmation , nor feasts and ho-Jy-days 5 nor religiously exact observance of forms , &c &c . Is the word Unitarianism in the
above note a misnomer ? Should it not be Trinitarian ism f From the manner in which Gibbon and Unitarianism are here
associated , would not a reader ignorant of Gibbon's sentiments naturally conclude , that Gibbon was an Unitarian , or ignorant of Unirarianism conclude that
Unitarianism is infidelity ? This can only arise from one of three causes —want of charity—or of know * ledge—or of honesty . Of which will the writer of the note make his choice ?
It should appear . Sir , that the malediction of Unitarianism is a gainful trade , for many engage in it . Some indeed have , it is said , been made bishops and deans as a reward of their zeal in the
good cause * " They have their reward . f I would , however , beg to suggest one thing to the friends of the good old cause of orthodoxy —that the benevolent spirit of Christianity is tp the full of as much consequence as those things
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which they choose to call its pecu * liar doctrines . When I began this cotnmuni . cation to you . Sir , I meant to mention some other instances of this kind of attack upon Unita . rianism , but my paper is , I find
too small , and I perceive that the task is unnecessary , for who can be ignorant of the numerous inu putations which are heaped upon us in every corner of the land } Some such instances I may pro .
bably make the subject of a future communication . * We Unitarians are , in one respect , in the situation of Esau . The hand of every man is against us . and our hand is
against every man—but with this difference : nothing will satisfy them but to plunge us in the gulf of eternal perdition , —after all their errors and wanderings we wish them safe in heaven at last . A Friend of Justice , Truth and Candour .
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CHILLING WORTH , « The Bible—the Bible only . No . xir . Decorum and Pomp iu Religious Worship , For what , if our devotion towards God , out of a riesifjs that
he should be worshipped as in spirit and in truth in the first place ,, so also in the beauty of holiness ? What if out of fear , that too ipuch simplicity and nakedness in the public set vice of God , may beget
in the ordinary sort of men a dull and stupid irreverence ; ar * d out of hope , that the outward state and glory of it being well-disposed and wisely moderated , may ingender , quicken , increase and
* This we shall be glad to receive . Eb .
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5 54 Chillingworth .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/30/
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