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J ) imne Nature is united in the Person of Jesus Christ . " £ * On Original Sin * " 3 . On the manner in which Grace operates , or on effectual Grace . ** 4 . On Predestination "
These ideas , Mr . Editor , which occurred to me when reading that part of P . T . L / s letter , which appears to recommend the " indirect method of insinuating truth into the mind , " would not have been intruded upon
your-notice , had I not afterwards fouod the same plan of procedure recommended in The Christians Survey of the Political World , [ p . 78 , ] though truly from a very different motive . The writer of that article , in his
anxiety to preserve us from the lash of the " common law , ' would recommend us to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints , iu such a manner that we cannot " incur the censures even of the Attorney-general" ! This is certainly a kind of appeal to the
feelings to which Unitarians are now not much accustomed . Most probably it has been suggested by the pains and penalties that were inflicted upon Mr . John Wright for the crime of blasphemy ; or by the evils brought
upon our cause by the very great degree of attention which he was the means of exciting to our sentiments and characters . Be it so . I am , however , afraid it will not produce the desired effect even upon him 9 should it travel across the Atlantic , much less
upon those obstinate spirits among us who seemed to rejoice in the proceedings that were instituted against him . No , Sir , the times are gone by when either the frowns or tyranny of civil authority shall influence the conduct of the faithful ministers and servants of Christ . We will * ' render
unto Caesar the things that are Caesar s , but unto God the things that are Go < Ts . " We will not fear them that hill the bod y * and after that have no more that they ean do : but I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear : fear Him , who after fie hath killed , hath
power to east into hell ; yea , I say unto you fear Him . The plain and direct method of defending and propagating truth , appears to me to be of too much importance to be neglected , whatever may be the threats of men in authority , or the feelings of the ignorant and misin-
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formed . It recommends itself by innumerable considerations , which it would be impossible to crowd into the space of a single letter . But it is enough to believe that it is not only best suited to the constitution of
human nature , and consistent with what we know of the plans of the Divine government , but authorized , if not required , by the example of Christ and his apostles .
LOUDONIANUS
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$ & Dr . Stock on Mrs . Capped Letter .
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Clifton , Sir , March 14 , 1818 . IN the Monthly Repository for Februarv , [ P- 112 , ] you have inserted
a communication from Mrs . Cappe , containing extracts from a letter addressed toherbysonae unknown friend , upon the subject of my renunciation of Unitarianism . Had the source of
this communication been less respectable , I should certainly have been tempted to believe that the letter in question had been a mere fabrication ; for , whatever be the kindness of motive by which the writer was actuated ,
the information which Mrs . Cappe has quoted from it is , in every respect , completely erroneous . No such conversations as are there recorded , or any similar to them , ever took place between my departed friend and myself . It is true , that he recommended
to my careful perusal the whole , ( not the chapters so particularly enumerated in the article alluded to , ) of the Gospel of St . John ; but 1 never heard one of the observations , by which this recommendation is stated to have
been accompanied , drop from his lips . Neither was my conviction of the truths which I have embraced , effected by the first verse of the fourteenth chapter of that Evangelist , or by any
other individual verse , although the fact is so circumstantially stated . You will , I hope , do me the justice to insert these remarks in your next Number .
J . E . STOCK-
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Sir , March 15 , 1818 . MT 1 HE correspondence of the Uni-JL tarian Society with the native
Unitarian Christians at Madras , may lead to important results . The-missionaries will probably take alarm at thia iucursion of hereby into their dor main . They will expect now to be
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/30/
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