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    subjects $ this may be seen particularly in the lectures on the Unity of God , the Miraculous Conception and

    Eternal Torments . Whether his exposition of these be satisfactory or not , all must allow that this is the true way of deciding a theological question . If any subjects of moment , in controversy between Unitarians and

    Calvinists , be passed over by Mr . Grundy , they are the special influences of the Holy Spirit , Imputed Righteousness , and perhaps Election and Reprobation : the first , the source of all the enthusiasm in the Christian world ; the second , the fascinating tenet ,

    which in its strongest operation , lulls all Christian inquisitiveness concerning truth and all anxiety concerning virtue ; the third , the astounding , fearful doctrine { horrible decretum , says Calvin himself ) of which the most rigidly orthodox in the present

    day are somewhat suspicious , and of which they never willingly exhibit one side , the dark and portentous side of reprobation , to the world . We suggest this , not as a defect in the present work , but as an addition which the author may possibly hereafter make .

    We cannot drop our imperfect notice of these volumes without recommending them strongly to our readers and thanking Mr . Grundy for the valuable addition which he has made to the defences of Unitarian , or in another word , Evangelical truth .

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    5 % Review . —Archer ' s Sermon on Universal Benevolence .

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    have been made on the minds of some of the friends of liberty by the late outrageous proceedings of the Roman

    Catholics in the South of France and elsewhere . The sermon is not remarkable for its argument or eloquence , but it contains passages which are entitled on a moral and Christian account to the highest praise . On the subject of heresy , Mr . Archer says ,

    " Never he so uncharitable and so gross as indiscriminately to give the harsh and odious appellation of of heretics to all those who belong not to our communion . That word implies guilt as well as error . You have been taug-ht in your catechisms , that heresy is an obstinate error in matters of

    faith . He only is a heretic , who , when he has discovered truth , wilfully and perversely , from human respects , - for worldly interests , or some such unworthy object , shuts his mind against it : or who obstinately or negligently refuses to be at the pains necessary for discovering' it j and

    how can you presume to pronounce of any individual man , that this is his case , unless he acknowledges it ? Can you assert , that the doctrines which you know to be true , have been proposed to him in such a light of evidence , as to give conviction to his mind : or that he is not so satisfied

    with his own creed , as to preclude every idea of an obligation to make farther inquiry ? Those who carefully seek the truth , and sincerely follow the best light they can obtain in theic respective circumstances , are innocent in the sight of God ,

    and secure of his acceptance , whatever may be the errors into which theyinvolun-, tarily fall . Who art thou then , that judgest another man ' s servant ? To his own master he standeth or fallethy—Pp . 11 , 12 .

    Having asserted these Christian and charitable sentiments , the worthy preacher proceeds to remark upon the persecution of the Protestants in the South of France , as follows : " This is the doctrine of the Catholic Church- — -a doctrine , which I have often inculcated to you , but to which I feel it

    particularly incumbent on me to call your attention at this time , when we are daily receiving afflicting accounts from the continent , of atrocities committed by Catholics againet Protestants , in the southern provinces of a neighbouring country , and

    when great endeavours are made in this country to have those atrocities be considered as the consequences of our religious system . Of the facts I know nothing , bat fronVthe public journals , and I sincerely hope they will be found to have been « ooli

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    Aw . II . —A Sermon on Universal Benevolence : containing some Reflections on Religious Persecution , and the alleged Proceedings at Nismes . By the Rev . James Archer . 8 vo . Booker . 1816 .

    MR . ARCHER is a Catholic Priest , and we understand one of the most popular preachers in his communion . This sermon is stated on the title-page to be " Printed at the Particular Request of the Nobility

    Gentry , and others , before whom it was delivered , in the Roman Catholic Chapel at Bath , on Sunday , the loth , and at Warwick Street , Golden Square , on Sunday , the 17 th of December , 1815 / ' We note this

    circumstance , because it is creditable to the feelings of the Roman Catholic t > 9 < iy » ^ ncTinay tend jto counteract th ^ unfavourable impression which may

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1816, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2448/page/38/