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ties perptex Him , let him see to it , that there be in his heart no bitterness , no animosity , no uncharitable , no unfriendly * feeling of any sort : this he can help and this lie must
help , or whatever knowledge he may possess of the person of Christ , it is cerfain he is destitute of his spirit ; let his language , tire dictate of his generous feeling be , •* We are children of the same Father : we are
disciples of the same Master : let us endeavour to enlighten each other : if possible , let us bring each other to the same opinions : but if this cannot be , let as at least agree to love
one another and our heavenly Father and our heaven-inspired Master ; and await the future light which sliall be vouchsafed to us , with unfeigned gratitude for what we have alreadv
reofeived , and with that best preparation for farther illumination , a heart the at > ode of charity , of meekness , of humility , of piety , of glowing affection , of active , tiriwearied , unbounded bep evtflence . "
We must defer our notice of the other works " at the head of this articfe , together with some observations which ibis controversy has suggested , to a future number . S . S .
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Art . II . —~ -- ^ Lay Sermon , addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes , en the existing Distresses and Discontents , By S . F . Coleridge , Esq . 8 vo . pp . 166 . Gale and Fenner . 1817 .
THE wandering bards , " " Coleridge , Southeyand Co . " whom in 1799 the Anti-Jacobin represented as mtrv ing ^ '* ' in sweet accord of harmony and love" and tuning all their " mystic hafrf > s to praise Lepaux , " the French Theo-philanthropist , are still consentaneous in their movements but their
b&tps are tuned to anothef theme , the ^ etnerits ttf the Unitarians . These hardtit&Aetl Christians have little liking for fidtioti in the articles of their faith , and n 6 ne * for mystic" rant , and hence they
ate singled out by the Lake poets for reprobation . It may be an amusing speculation whether the praise or the er * sUre of these mystics will be ^ acetf tan'ted htaiour&bie half a cen tury hertcei •''•
MtJ Coleridge iattienttf , with Ins if o-! ittess > f % ttfh ¥ ; that ' V * e hear much in the prteent day dfthfc pitiinttm and
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simplicity of the Christian religion /* and that hence the necessity of believing in Christ is transformed " into a recommendation to believe him . " This is we allow a hopeful beginning of the removal of Christian plainness and simplicity . The Lay - Preacher proceeds ; The advocates of the latter
scheme grew out of a sect that were called Socinians , but having succeeded in disbelieving far beyond the last foot- * marks of the Socini , hav-e chosen tp designate the-mselves by the name of Unitarians . " Is this writer , who lays claim to * ' all knowledge and all mysteries , " really ignorant of the history of the sect which he denounces ? JDid
he read ncne of their books and learn nothing of tiieir early advocates when he was amongst them ? During the time that he officiated as an Unitarian teacher at Shrewsbury and elsewhere , did he : never look into the Fr&trea Poioni or
any other of thejr standard volumes ? But perhaps he has not only , like the Poet Laureate , outgrown his opinions / ' but also , like Mr . Pitt , whom he and the Laureate cannot now be
ashamed to resemble , lost the faculty of memory with regard to all past connections that do not flatter his present humour . Let us then reiriinci this " some time" Unitarian , preacher , thafc the term Unitarian is not of mocjerri invention , nor a name of choice : that
it is as old as the Reformation ; that Socinian was always the epithet of , an adversary ; and that fair and honourable * foes have for two centuries and a half spoken of such as believed in and worshipped One God in One Person as Unitarians . It is of no consequence
therefore whether the word be etyhi o ^ logically correct ; custom has assigned it a definite sense ; it serves truly to designate the worshipper of One 0 t ^ vine Person in contradistinction ffpin the Trinitarian who worships TJiree Divine Persons ; and in this signification it will continue to be used When ,
it shall have beea forgotten that w . ' Coleridge was a Unitarian preacheY , and the inquiry shall have ceaseflwhat arguments nave transformed him into a Trinitarian layman . "' : ¦
" Thrs is a word , " says Mr . Cojf $ & % Fidge , referring to the name of Unitarian , ** which in its proper sense cat * belong only to their antagonists : Yor Unity or Unitioh atfd iii&istiit&ulsh ^ able Unicity ( or Oneness , are income patibteterri 5 a ; Wkle hi ttfe -c * dd&r »
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Review . ^—Coleridge * s Lay Sernioik ' . ' 2 t | t )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/43/
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