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Bonaparte had suppressed , not having the fear of priests and cardinals before his eyes . It is of great importance also in the present precarious situation of our national affairs , that the people should
be universally instructed in the nature of religious liberty , or the right of every man to worship God in the way he chooses , without being subject to any temporal injury whatever on that account . The cause of freedom has
gained ground , but many of its professed friends are timid , vacciilating , and very partial in their views of its due extension ; and desperate will be the struggles of the advocates for religious despotism and priestcraft , before their long usurped power can be finally abolished . We agree with Mr . \ V . in the last passage of his book—which we extract :
** If earthly legislators have a right to make penal laws respecting" religion , any religion , and all religions might be proscribed ; every person professing to be religious in any way , might be doomed to the dungeon , gibbet , or the stake . If the principle be granted it must be universal , and to any extent . In the pi e-
sent precarious state of things , the friends to unrestricted religious liberty , will do well to be upon their guard against all encroachments that may be made on their rights and liberties . They can never be secure until all penal statutes relating to opinions , and to religious worship are abolished—until there be an unlimited
extension of freedom to all parties and all denominations—until toleration be superseded by religious liberty founded on the principles of justice , and recognized as a . natural and imprescriptable right . "
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Art . VI . — Unilarianism a Scriptural Creed , occasioned by the Pamphlets of Mr . Law and Mr . Baxter ; in Defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity . By T . C . Holland , Minister of the
Unitarian congregation in Preston . Preston , Printed and Sold by J . Wiifcockson : Sold also in London by Hunter and by Eaton . 1816 . 8 vo . pp . 49 .
WE have befn much pleased with this little pamphlet , and think It entitled to no mean rank among the lighter controversial publications on the side of Unitarianism . Within a moderate compass the reader is here presented with the substance of many volumes . The writer ' s arrangement
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of his materials , the perspicuity of tits style , the correctness and strength of his reasoning , and the becoming temper which he exercises towards his opponents , do him great credit . This performance of Mr . Holland's exhibits
the advantages flowing from the union of a sound theological education with vigorous talents : and our author seems likely to maintain the well-earned reputation of his name and family , a name and a family ioug endeared to the friends of sacred literature and
of religious freedom . It appears that the discussion in which Mr . H . has so honourably engaged arose from some local circumstances detailed in his preface . He speaks of " various writers" as taking a part in it , * but "
particularly" of " Mr . Baxter and Mr . Law , each of whom , " be adds , " has published a pamphlet on this subject . ** Of these champions of Trinita nanism , the latter , if we may judge from the following extracts , is far the raor £ respectable :
To the rude personal attacks which * abound in Mr . Baxter ' s pamphlet , it ; i « . quite beneath me , " declares his antagonist , *< to reply . When he insinuat * a that Unitarian ministers are , like the heathen soothsayers sanctimonious hypocrites , he surely forgot that the profession of Unitarian Christianity is by no means either a gainful or a popular one . —27 .
** If Mr . Baxter -write again , unless his style be very much altered , * nd he think fit to adhere much more to the argument , I shall certainly not reply to liinu To Mr . Law I confess myself under bbHig&r tions , for the truly Christian spirit wlijt $ he has displayed in his pamphlet , aod \ $ f which I hope to profit . "—Pref . iv .
In his cha pter on the \ vorMp of Jesus Mr . H . makes a manly acknow r ledgement of an inadvertence of whichr he had been guilty : " I had too hastily imagined , 00 ^ having the means of consulting a concordance of the Greek translation of the
Old Testament , that Xeir&pyeai and Xa / tpsviu were never used in Scripture with respect to men . For the correction of this mistake I am obliged to Mr . Law , but he must himself perceive , that , since he has proved , that both these terms are applied to men , their being applied to
• We conclude , from the preface , that it was carried on , at first , in ' * the Preston Chronicle , **
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Review . —Holland on Uniiarianisrn . 53
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/53/
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