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sense in wfoicib they mean the-name to be understood , it is a presumptuous boaat and an uncharitable calumny /* The Trinitarians will not thank the X > ay-Preacher for this gibss : according t « i this exposition of terms , the Potytheiat who believes in a number of
Divine Persons united in one common ^ nature is a proper Unitarian ; and again , the orthodox believer in the Trinity is not a believer in the Oneness of God , though he may hold the Unity
of the Deity , or the composition of parts in a wnole . Such a comment as this was well preceded by a complaint of the Christian religion being erroneously supposed to be plain and . simple .
* Their true designation , ' * adds ? the Lay-Preacher of the Unitarians ' , amongst whom he is no longer numbered , ** which simply expresses a fact . admitted on all sides , would be that of ^ Psiianthropists , or assertors of the mere humanity of Christ . " Many a man ' has wished to christen the Unitarians
anew ; the' name that our quondam ipreaober proposes is amongst the oddest that ingenuity or envy or bigotry has -sugges ted , Psilanthropists , that is , if it may be Englished , Mere-Humanists . ^ Passing by the humour of this nick-. mame , we may remark it as rather singular that Mr . Coleridge should
derrcmrmate a sect not from what they •^ believe but from a part of that which £ lfey do not believe , and in his new negnomen should overlook wholl y that . which they believe and carry into practice with regard to the great object of
worshi and which is in truth their only distinction . All Christians believe in the humanity of Christ ; and n < 3 Christians that we are acquainted ¦ with profess to believe in the mere humanity of Christ . How would Mr . Coleridge have , named the Apostle Peter , who preached " Jesus of
Nazaseth ~ - *~ - « -a man—*—approved of God , iky miracles , wonders and signs , which _ OiOtD DID hy him / " Yet the inventor of the memorable term Psilanthrapists charges thpse that take the antient and vgptyersal name of Unitarians * in the
tftnie of the believers in and worshtppetfs aTOtoe God in One Person , with ** , a presMmptuoua boast and an unchajrtalble calumny . " ¦ < , ) , f * Wiesowatitis" and the Fratres Pol << lf ) i Arte allowed to have been M untflentabtyt 3 den of learning ; " but tfiis pMftfetlt > t < jjdivinc 3 3 Utet havaikwitt btttti
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dead costs nothing , and >» h ae * v « s for : * a cover to the insinuation that since their time there have been no " l&ajmed i&Ocinian divines . " How basea S'fehe spirit of party ! What stuff will rrotfei ^ otcy feed upon ! Mr . Coleri < % e Has withdrawn his stock of learning from the
Unitarian church , and he affects--to pity its intellectual poverty . Wifchotit him * however , the Unitarians ^ - have sufficient learning and vigour of mind to detect sophistry , to immasque ii ) isrepresentation , to expose . absurdity ,
though hidden in the trappings of mystic phrases , and to trace up the odium theologicum to its source in a disordered -head or ( in language which Mr . Coleridge may understand ) an unregenerate heart .
The only other point on which we shall remark is the creed Which the Lay-Preacher has Jabricatcd for the Unitarians , and which shews his dep lorable ignorance of the people whom he sets himself at once to reprove ami instruct . His creed contains six
articles , of which only three are Unitarian 1 Xhe Unitarians believe , says their former friend , I . In One God . —True . 2 . In the necessity of human actions and in all remorse for sins being
precluded by Christianity . —Not true . On this philosophical question there is as much diversity of opinion amongst the Unitarians as amongst other Christians . 3 . In the Gospels and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ . —Tr ^ fe . ^ ndi in the
kpistles also , and in the " inspiration * of all these books as far as inspirati on was necessary to constitute lhercf an authentic Revelation of the will of ( 5 od . 4 . In the resurrection of tlie body . —^ -Not true . They differ widely as to * v # iat constitutes ** the whole naan ; " but Aey all agree in condemning the substitution of the modern notion -of the resurrection
of the body for the scriptural ddctrine of the resurrection of the itoanu 6 * "ln the final happiness of the righteous and the corrective punishment of the wicked . —Can this latter article of ra * th outrage the feelings of one who Itfte our author professes a benign and bland philosophy ? 6 . In a redemption , bat ( as they hold that there is no mow I difference in the actions and charactets
of men , and that men are not responsive beings , and as they merge all the atrtisjbutes of Deity in Power , inteJligeiMe and Benevolence , avakirlg ootbingrof the'Holiness off God a *^ d rop reaett ^ mg IM a ^ trgcr ^ sa fneve ^ m ^ tftf 4 iortad < lrc 0 s < id
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/44/
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