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agjtfcrte tftf ^ & ^ tw ? doubted ; as - long 7 as thiy ^ i *^ s ^«> rn tc > thinks as their < £ KtiDKdMi * S £ deerqeiJ that the , y shall tHtik , ^ lhfe # ^ > that he who does tfet acknowtedge 4 he Athanasian Trihky 3 s \ he $ f&& &Q& shail ^ witkorat doubt
perish ^ ref laatirtgly . " If they agree with feis- ^ / terdsfeljp mey will confute their opinion , and enforce it wiih greater a ^ Atii $ » : ha # hitherto been ^ done . " TfyKP is certainty what eught to be doae r $ ni itP-has often appeared to me
extraordinary , that so many Christian bishops , ^ anu 9 Q many Christian preachers 01 different denominations , should ptoftss-their conviction that the doctriiieof th © Trinity is inseparable from Christian doctrine , and essential to the evptedical system , and that ; notwith *
standing , tfete term is seldom heard to escape their lips in the course of their p \ Mic instruction . Is it that they noWthe doctrme-wkh a feeble faith > This cannot be supposed without im- » peaching t&eirveraeity , for they affirm tiieii conviction to be ei&ire . Is it
that the word <* Trinity / is not found in the Christian scriptures , and thai Aeyhave no example for the use of it efohe * in Ghrfetor im any df his ira * mediate followers ? This w true , but it cannot be pleaded with reason by Christian' preachers , who have admit *
fed * the barbarous and unwarranted name into their form of sound doctrite ; and , le ^ st of all , by those ^ vho build their religion upon the founda tiooiof Athanasiuses , arid pseudo-AthanaBiosesv and other doetors of the Pkpjl'Or Protestant church , the €€ Tri * ni ^ beatie -fefi'd as the chief
cornerstone . If fefee bench < o £ bishops agree wi& their brother of Stw Davirf ^ It tehoVes'thieimitd display tihe sanae courage tod consistency v ^ h ich he has stewn . f Le «^ tb em rally Sound the AjwD of' > thfekchurchi It is ? not gene- * rows and it 4 s not pious-to stand aloof from the champion ot thek creeds , itt
en ^ ud a conflict , which even they ca rmiftt thi ^ k 1 an equal one-if they have tek $ i £ fli £ >* ifetab ) e to mark the thiaists ofbk ^ adYer ^ scries : - ''^\ - ^ S ^^*^ M 5 k 8 fortfi *« ) davvert W ^ t- ^ tM ^ ' " ^ ¦¦ '" A mWrnffBM ^^ ¦ ™® & ^^ m # *^ WA ^( M ^ > ife ^^ W ' frS ] *' . * i |! 009 f - 'jUiay sk * ' > - ^ s a ^ ^ yuiiri > , Yid | Hfte-a ^ ' - - r / : < ^ i ^> . ^ 4 ju rFr - ^ o ih ^ ^ f ^ -t
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&tit , , ' jtprit : X i 2 j 8 i& THE man tvhb ventures to ayr& % ^ his ; neighbour for misrepresent ^ tion , should be careful of the accuracy of his own statements : were it pti ffi from respect to himself and the cajuga ^' which he espouses , however incapable he may be of other views . And yeir t when Mr . Norris speaks of the revision
of Dr . Watts * $ Hymnsy as 4 € r bearing all the outward semblance of the ^ g ^ nuine edition , " he deviates widely froib the fact . The original work is enti * tied , " Divine Songs aUempted in easy Language for the Use of Children , by I . Watts , JE > . D . ; whereas ; the Kttle-book which has been so
clamorously and unjustly assailed , bears the ti ^ e of t € Dr . Watts ' s Hymns and Moral Songs for Children , revise ^ and altered by a Ladv . " How is it possible , then , that these two works should be designedly confounded , where the slightest attention is sufficient to prevent mistake ? " The same course
has , indeed , been taken with that popular tract * Meimoth ' s Great Importance of a Keligious Life ; ' " but it is the course of honour and of fairness , carefully stating in the preface whereio
the alterations consist . Neither' 5 ^ these works have been ' * palmed upoi the public , " otherwise than as revisions of books of acknowledged merit anjf general excellence , although containing views ^ of Christianity in which the revisers could not acquiesce . They ajpe consequently adapted to the use of %
very different class of readers ; and were offered to the public with the most correct and benevolent design . Is it not a hjgh compliinent to the de * votional writers of the Church of England , that Christians of any other de ^
nomination should acknowledge their excellence , by making use of their works as for as they can consistently with their pwn sentiments , and franl ^ ly avowing the obligation ? And with
whiit propriety can that practice he cemured in jpnita ^ ian 9 , which hJii been repeatedly sanctioned by ; the $ & + ample <> f orthodox ^ Churdmxeri ^ w&h ^ respect to the devotional ^ ompjwt ^ ibn ^ pf ^ CJfetyrch 6 f Rome ? ? JPftrtist , the ^ c ^ r ^ thai ; * heae ^ uttw ^ rr&fltfed aifr"J t ^ eks ^ 4 H no ^^ ongeV dtsgrace th £ yri ^ ^ tings of ther $ ffcnutftte friends of this 5 ^ gtWJfehiite » t , Hwr , - % t 4 em : thHt iftfeii ? f m ^ liberal br ^ th ^ Vflf # eftW ( fe ^ ' ^ swss ^ saSm ' u
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nqdytoM ? . Norris € m ^ m ^ Mia ^ 4 ^^^? muis s Ilymm > 87 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1816, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2452/page/21/
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