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it Would seem too much like pharisaical boasting , and seem too ostentatious , to talk of our own labours and their success . I may be allowed to say , however , that I have known many persons who have been converted by
Unitarian doctrines ; some from unbelief to the faith of Jesus Christ , many from a state of ignorance to the true knowledge of God , many from error and superstition to the glorious light of the gospel , numbers from
gloom and sorrow to joy and gladness , numbers from irreligion to religion , and from sin to righteousness . Should your Correspondent wish to continue the subject , I have no objection , should you , Sir , think proper to admit the communications .
R . WRIGHT , P . S . I am truly glad Dr . Carpenter has brought the case of the Unitarian Church at Falmouth before the readers of the Repository [ p . # 8 ]* I most heartily concur in all that the Doctor
has said of the importance and merits of that case . Having twice visited Cornwall as a Missionary , and spent part of several weeks at Falmouth , I speak with the more confidence on the subject ^ and the more earnestly recommend it to the attention and
countenance of the Unitarian public . From what I know of the Unitarians in Falmouth and its neighbourhood , of the unwearied and disinterested exertions of Mr . Philp , their worthy minister , and of the importance of that town , as an Unitarian station , in a considerable district where the fields are
already white to the harvest , I have no hesitation in saying , that no case has been brought before the friends of Unitarian ism , nor I apprehend is likely to be brought before them , more deserving of their notice and aid , than that of the Unitarian Church at Falmouth .
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man approved of God , by signs and wonders which God did by Him "; " as 44 the man by whom came the resurrection from the dead ;' as " the map . whom God had ordained to judge the world ; " as " sent from God to bless
us by turning away every man from his iniquities $ " as " exalted by God to be a prince and a saviour , to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins . " This was-, then , found sufficient to reclaim the sinner , and convert the idolater ; and this wasUnitarianism .
The apostolical doctrine of «« one God , and one mediator , the man Christ Jesus , " continued during the first ages to " rivet the attachment of the common people $ " and it was among them that the Platonic and GhiQstic systems of a secondary Creator and a pre-existing Christ met with the strongest opposition . When the true traditions were
interrupted , men fell into speculation , aiid resorted to their natural dispositions . The satisfaction for sin arose with other innovations of doctrine , and is no more an ancient tradition , than the notion started in the fourth century , of the pre-existence of Christ as a spirit like to God .
The principle of a satisfaction for sin is as old as the sacrifices of the idolaters , who passed their children through the fire to Moloch . " Shall I give my first-born for my trans- ' the het Micah
gressioti , " says prop , " the fruit of my body for the sin of nay sotit ? He hath shewed thee , O man ! what is good : and what doth the Lord require of thee , but to do justly , and to k > ve mercy , and to walk humblv with thy God ? " vi . 7 , S .
If the unscriptural doctrine of atonement , in the spurious modern sense , be the cause of missionary success , what does it prove but the rooted disposition in the human heart to worship the creature more than the Creator : aad
the strength of that opiate to salutary remorse aud moral vigilance * a trust in the righteousness of another ? The natural fruit of the atonement is Antinomianism , which supplants the moral law by the fndpunity' or impeccable security of a new cireatureship ni
Christ . If by ignorant perversion of the language and views of Scripture , the ' ^ ntinrpuili ' an' Missionary * ' gains the hfeirta ! oj ( the lower classes j" if 4 the co ^ jqaon jreopjelb ^ ai ; hiia gladly ;" are we to believe that «« here is Christ" 1
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Unitarian , Views of the Gospel defended . 185
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Unitarian Views of the Gospel defended Sir , Feb . IS , 1818 , THE absence of facts to disprove the opinion that there is nothing in Unitarianism calculated to 4 i turn the idolater from his error , or convert
the unreclaimed sinner , " is thought by Simplex [ p . 3 $ ] , to warrant the conclusion that llmfari&nism cannot be the religion of the gospel . This conclusion 1 take tipdti me to deii y l The apostles preached Jesus as 4 * a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/33/
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