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to a barb # rou 9 people ) Tiot by trre cross of Christ .- *~< Not true- ' The premises , including all the Unitarians ^ a re ? absolutely fa \ se $ the conclusion is false applied t » any Unitarians . It is the
peculiar doctrine of Urritariatiism ; because it is die peculiar doctrine of the New IT-estament , that Christ is the way , the truth and the itfe ' , that he-is the Saviour of the world , and that the < ross was the instrument and is the
symbol of salvation . ** These , " says Mr . Coleridge , with great faith in his reader , " are all the positives of the modern Socinian creed , ' * and half of these are his own dreams . We might enlarge the number of Unitarian € * positives , " but the Lay-Preacher has succeeded so ill in
creedmaking that we are not tempted to follow his example . In this apocryphal creed appear two marked features of the author ' s mind ; first , an incapacity uf conceiving that a body of Christians should not be disciplined under the faith of a leader but should each think
and judge for himself ; and secondly , a secret persuasion that a creed like an ingot is valuable according to its bulk , so - that the Apostles' Creed would he greatly improved if it could be extended
to the length of the Athanasian , and on the same principle the Lord ' s Prayer , which is a creed in another form , would be indefinitely more excellent if it were spread'out into the size of the Book of Comfriftn Prayer .
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Art . 1 , 11 . —A Letter to William Smith , JEsg . JS 1 . P . Jrom Robert Southey , . JGsy . 8 vo . pp . 48- Murray . FWp * H £ author of mt Wat Tyler" seems - JL to think tbat no one is entitled to call rtH-tiames but himself . He finds that be is generally censured and ridiculed * : and he flies into a rage , and while the fit is on him raves about his
consistency and virtue and superiority to other folks and his immortality . Mr . Smithy the Member of Parliament for Norwich , took occasion in a debate concerning the political consistency of certain persons , to refer to two com positions which were generally ascribed
to the same writer ; one , Wat Tyler , which preaches equality and , rebel lion , and theotber iua article in the Quarterly Review , vtthieb holds out that the ad-Yocat « 8 > © £ reform iti Parliament design 'spratbingieas than a sanguinary revolution : comparing the two pit * # « v Mr .
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Smith proftoutsced thfe v&zm who ecttdd have written * both a REsrEoatv&s : ; Tfafe word * va $ never more justly or / natmorify applied . Whatever baseness it implies is chargeable in all its odiousnes ^ ta pcfci
the public writer who first avows republicanism and then accuses ^ his neighbour of being a revdlojioniA , merely because he seeks by peaceaiiie means a constitutional reform * / j >
The Poet Laureate , for such the-author of Wat Tyler has become * could have vindicated himself orrly by denying his being the writer referred to in the Quarterly Review , or by shewing that the passage in that publication had been mistaken . He does neither , but pmceeds to laud himself and to cursor ' all that do not admire at one and the same
time Wat Tyler and the Quarterly Review . - r ^ Mr . Southey ' s unparalleled stlfisoif ficiency provokes the itmuiry ^ Wsb& as be ? And in / spite of all his v ^ pcruri'Sfe . he himself must confess that bje is befet known as author of Wat Ty . ler ^ atid Poet Laureate . Although he ? ites written more emes than lVWtrni ^ nd
probably as much history as "Hinttt ^ we are not fully convinced ^ of tbe ^^ uwly of his title to immortality , which rhe holds up in Mr . Smith ' s fa ' c «^ vkkla plain intimation that this ^ ge ntleraan has no chance of being bnawti £ ! iKDg | i 0 s ^ terity except in the -chapaerer * $ fh 4 > b& certain Mr . William tSmi ^ M ^ i ? kiUo
^ insulted' * him , ihfe anchor bf / Wnt Tyler . Yet we predict tlain ^ tim ^ jFpMrnals of the House of < 3 tortmafos / wni » h for thirty years have recordedfthernnite of Air . William Snaith in fcaiihecDfcra with every plan for the abolition < yfthe slave-traffic , the relief of conscnereafc , the preservation and extension df * cnrii
rights and the removal or niitigatrbwof the crinnes and horrors of war , wiiMa&t a » long as Joan of Arc ^ ito whiohicttte Poet l ^ aureate with sty ^ n och . prud ^ t consistency refers us , or Tbe Sponiinafes Letters , or the Quarterly Kevie ^ r , \ sdr Wat Tyler , or even the eon net io prfeOe of Harry Martin , tbe negicidei * n 10
Not only Mr . Sraitb ,. bat ^ M > ., B rougha m a Uo at id t be :. refotai ^ rv ( ge ~ nerally- are assailed by the . Poet Jxatfreate with every virulent andQc arrtto ^ s epithet -which the language surpptie * r hey have thought , and : some of tfotru
havejapoiWen , > Hl ) o £ Mn ) So * ithey / jrfVice he shouted ** & \ orj to -Gfj » d ! t ^ iiiwat ance for mankind >( " on the ndt ( mi »* Af th « ^ fimh * &s p * atlbto < MtBti ttoA Jof Bt » p « J
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Review . —Swxthtys Jitter taWlitie * n ~ 8 mith 9 Esq . M . P . 801
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/45/
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