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watched , and , if they practise any of the fraudes pice , to be exposed . Can any of your readers tell whether in translating the New Testament into the Oriental Dialects , they translate from the Received Text , and how
they deal with 1 John v . 7 , 8 ; Acts xx . £ 8 ; 1 Tim . iii * 16 , and other corrupted passages ? R . B .
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maintain the exclusive Deity and divine worship of the one God the Father , are included under the name Unitarians : he ought also to have known that the name Socinians is not only rejected by , but is inapplicable
to the body of Christians to whom he refers iu his letter : yet he applies it to them at large . I know of no Chris * tians , in any part of this kingdom , to whom the name Socinians is applicable . So long as this nickname is given to us , whether by friend or enemy , we ought to protest against it .
From your Correspondent ' s remarks , I suspect that he is neither so well acquainted with either the doctrines or affairs of Unitarians as he assumes to be . Why does he apply the term redemption to the more popular doctrines ? Can he , after *« deep
attention / ' and " minute observation , " *« for a considerable time past , " be ignorant that Unitarians maintain , and that their missionaries every where preach , Christian redemption , though not the falsely reputed orthodox views of it ? What can he mean by making the remark , < c To convert sinners
without a Saviour ,- — < r ( v ? rjg—Salutifer restorer—seems a hopeless effort" ? Does lie mean to charge Unitarians with attempting to convert sinners without preaching a Saviour or Restorer ? If so , let him bring some
proof to support so serious a charge . So far as my knowledge of the matter extends , Unitarian missionaries preach that the living God is the Saviour of all men , but especially of them that believe , and testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the
world . I wish Simplex had pointed out distinctly what he thinks to be the " radical deficiency ' in the Unitarian views . Probably it may be some unscriptural , but reputed orthodox dogma ; it may possibly be something which Unitarians do actually believe and teach , though he is
ignorant of it . If he write again , I will thank him to state plainly wherein he supposes the ( deficiency to consist . I will thank him also to say what meaning he gives to the ambiguous phrase ** atoning Saviour . " If he only means a Saviour by whom God reconciles the world unto himself , then Unitarians do not exclude from their doctrines such a Saviour ; but if he means a Saviour who reconciled God
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Mr . Wright in Reply to Simplex . 183
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Mr . Wright in Reply to Simplex , on the Inefficacy of Unitarianism for Conversion . Colchester , Sir , February 5 , 1818 . fTj ^ HE article in the last Number of M the Repository , [ p . 32 , ] on the
fnejfficacy of Unitarianism for Conversion , signed Simplex ^ appears to me to require some reply ; as , though it contains the mere opinion of the writer unsupported by either facts or
argument , it may lead some readers to wrong conceptions of the tendency of the Unitarian doctrine , and of the effects actually produced by the promulgation of it . If theological controversialists would be careful to make
themselves well acquainted with the subjects on which they write , before they communicate their thoughts to the public , and to express themselves clearly , in unambiguous language , much misconception and needless discussion would be avoided . I am led
to make this remark by the perusal of your Correspondent ' s letter . He seems to have very incorrect views of the subject on which he has written , and applies terms so vaguely as to leave his precise meaning uncertain . The chief difficulty I feel in replying to his assertions , arises from , after several
times reading his paper , my beingdoubtful of the precise ideas he meant to convey by some of his expressions . If your Correspondent has " for a considerable time past been deeply attentive to the various conversionary efforts ' of Unitarians , " and from minute observation of the result of those
efforts , " is " warranted in the conclusion , that there is some radical deficiency in the ' Unitarian system ; he ought to have known that neither the members nor agents of the Unitarian Fund Society are exclusively what lie would call Socinians ; that according to the rules of that institution , adopted from its origin , all who
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/31/
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