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i $ something good in all the different denominations of Christians as well as $ oihething defective / ' He praises * he tetf-disant < c < orthodox or evangelical denomination" fofr their'zealous attention to the instrumental duties of religion , which , iieveirthelesfc , he adds , to
feofcae of them are to 6 . ^ pt substitute ^ &r the Weightier matters of the law , $ u £ h as fidelity , integrity and mercy . ** Passing over ; fbr tfte present , < the fiddle" party , " he tells us , what is etrtctly trae , that the body of Unitarian
Christians has also it ' s excellencies and defects v ' * It is distinguished , " he is p leased to say , " for honour , probity ' , integrity artel liberality , but is less exemplary for it 5 observance of the iinstrumental thnies of religion than thg opposite party . " A charge still -more
& $ rious ' , we imagine , hi JVir . C . ^ s esti * matiori , and" certainly ^ in our own , succeeds : € Of late , vear& it [ the Unitarian denor intnixtioni has manifested a great proselyting zeht , anq some , I apprehend ,, are more solicitous to make converts tp their grah <( dokktine h ? the tfftity oHhe Godhead , than
to teach ttten to fe&r God and keep his Cfcoirimnds ^ ttootf £ lir ; nfonyy I knpw , Mke thia the 1 ^ great ofeject > ^ n * l are of a trul y tfcriou s ^ p iriU'V * 2 # y 27 j > t . It ' is a very kmctfl ffi ffig fir us to lq iwgmmtjjui . Mo . iudgeth us , is the
W ? $ ^^ 'v « W . doctrine of % h $ tJnuy of the ^ xodae ^ p ,, iso pronnne . nt ; in the Scriptures , so hegjectea , ' obscured 3 i > d corrupted in h ^ oman creeds , pos-^ e $ ses . an importance yvhich demands p 0 otdioa ^^ measure of " proselyting t $$ \' Stjfi , tne dWeminalion of it is % n object pTJjifendr foment tp that of ^^ ching m ^ n tpYear ^? pdand keep hii comtmmefrnentsi He then who accuses fW ^ fe ^
^^^ S 9 ^ f 4 )' & ¥ ll * & tne latter Opr . y ^ ff ^ pnflary eftd , Ought ^ o pror ^ r jfe ^ , geftcf ^ n s fVPfi > . K ^ ^ ig hty an ^ e sqnoti ; wwjtt h } ft ^^ pr bi ^ readers ^ admi ^ ^ ptl ^ ffi . ^ a ^ i ^ er ^ on or intim otion . y . * in liie Portrait of IJ ^ ^ *^^ Mr . Cf / a TCrrcfl is unfaithful , and his colours are U ^ w iwt 1 ^ ; ¦ . ¦ -.
--ii * I ?^ ey . aif 5 often superstifciousl « y afraid oft ^ f «!^ lUHon ; and whiJe tbey re obliged ^ t ^ l ^ M ^^ gf th # ^ h « nE are nqpatert ** in / ti ^ e ^ o , k ^ i » r rea | i oM , ^ nd ia ^ ^^ pe ^ - ^ ations of Providence , they fe /^ j ^ ^ f ^ t WW , Mrt « ^ ^ Ty vJ ^ ^ ed «* $ M ^ ffw ^ w * ^ : * v ^ F cm ^ f : ; , . ¦ » . } » i '
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He would have expressed hipistlf with' more discrimination , and with not Jess of equity and candour , had he subjoined , * that their aversion from the word mystery , as here em ployed by Mr . Carpenter , arises from their firm conviction that this , language has no
such use and application in the volume of Revelation ; and that their alleged superstitious fear * of superstition , , j $ really a . dread of adopting , in their theological discussions , terms and ijieas which cannot be discovered in the Scriptures . . But the picture is not yet finished :
* Tbey are too prone to Io 6 k down witb pity or contempt on those who believe that the Gospel contains more than they ard willing to allow [ read , than they are able to fi-ibd ~ \ . And though they are happily free from that uncharitable spirit which cqnsigns persons of different sentiments from themselves to future , punishment , yet some of them are not altogether free from
that supercilious and dogmatical spirit which arises from the pride of human , reason * " _ , A supercilious and dogmatical spirit triay proceed from other and additional eauses ^—* v . g . from the temper or the creed which says , * Stand by thyself ; for I am holier than thotr . * Men who
Stigmatize the exercise of human reason , may evince , in that very act , the pride ot" reason : and the advocated 6 f mysteries , in the unseripturarFsense * di that expression , may be quite * nk dogmatical and supercilious as those H ^ hd are willing to m ^ ke the Sacred Writers their own commentators .
On the Methodists our author be * stows a mixttrre of panegyric and of censure ; but the former fstne principal ingredient . The Established Church ' he regards ( 297 as " tolerant in lt $
practice atod useful m it s institutions . Arid' then he pays this Church and hfc > sons a -very singular and equivocal compliment : ' ' ,
« The pm-ate sentiment ? of it ' s naemb ^ rt ar ^ various . Soi ^ ie ar « Cajvipjists and other * Arniiniaiis . IMost of them are TrinitanaD s , no ); a feVir Ariaris * aiid some perhaps ^ bociniaiift . But ' th ^ y obey the exhortation of the Apostle , ffabt thou faith ? Have it t 6 ftysJf : * x
Say rather , they in practice ; pervert an 4 mi ^ ajjnjy \ \ , as iTi ^ ch , as Mr- v > rpfcnter Ht ^ es by his ( JigjoUijig it : } & *** leirence ' to xnis maUer , Certami ; WV we are that , whatever apostol ic pm
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4 ft ^ $ t&m 0 w . - ^ Carpmte / $ Sermons on Christian Pea& and Unity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1816, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2455/page/44/
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