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careful to cultivate a devotional spirit , and a pious , benevolent temper . Wt cannot but share ' with him in this solicitude ; and we trust that the con * jjregations under his care , will attend to the weighty considerations which tie suggests to them , on the last page of the Letters . Let them remember that they are now become as a city set on a hilly which cannot be hid * den ; that not only will the friends who have assisted them , expect their progress , but that their conduct will be closely and jealously watched by the religious societies which they have left . Their unavoidable mistakes will
be magnified into faults , their faults blackened into crimes , and every deviation from strict rectitude be construed into an argument against their hew opinions . We earnestly hope and pray that , through the divine blessing , the holiness of their characters will
fever be conspicuous ; and that they will continue ornaments of that simple and apostolical creed which they have embraced , that there is one God , and one Mediator between God and men * the man Christ Jesus .
In an Appendix are given some edifying and affecting particulars of the Rev . J . Cooke ' s last sickness and death . We shall ever protest against the practice of judging a man ' s character and future prospects by the manner of his death , rather than by the conduct of his life ; yet , as it may be generally expected , that the righteous ioill have hope in dearth and that precious unto God will be the death of his taints , mch examples of the power of religion in these awful moments , are useful and instructive . And as
Dr . Thomson remarks , it is scarcely possible to read these particulars with * out uttering the devout aspiration , Let rifie die the depth of tfie righteous * and let my last end be like his . B . G * *
** { The above initials yvili point out 16 many of our readers a highlyvaliied young friend , as the writer of thjs article . He is now in a foreign lancj for the benefit of his health , and
the pray era of very many of our brethren w $ 11 be -joined ta our own ; for the preservation "djf a life which promisee so mijLch Christina uspfujnees . E * g ¦ . " , ¦;¦ . ¦ " : . i * , . « . ' . > . -. « . ¦ ¦ ¦ . . , ¦ . t ¦ r • •
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273 Review . —Philips ' s Unitarianism Weighed and Found Wanting
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Unitarianism Weighed and Found Wanting , in . a Series of Letter ^ ad pressed to the Rev . George Harris , and occasioned by his Evening Leeture $ in Itenshaw Street Chapel . By Robert Philips . 8 vo . pp . 68 . S . Taylor , Liverpool 3 Longman and Co . 1818 .
AT the commencement of this year , Mr , Harris began a course of Lecturesin defence of the doctrines of Unitarian Christianity , which he has continued every Sunday evening since , and which have been very well attended . This has excited the godly zeal of a Mr . Philip , a minister of the
Independent denomination in Liverpool . Stimulated by the " hint * of an " excellent and endeared friend , that something was still wanted on the Socinian controversy , of a more popular character than critical disquisitions , ' the thought was suggested
to him " of weighing the Unitarian system in the scales of prophecy and providence . " " This plan , " he observes in his preface , " he is now pursuing ,. and would not have published this specimen pf it , had not the immediate interests of truth in
Liverpool called for an answer to Mr . Harris . " He could not , ho we ver , pass over in silence the public and pointed attack of Mr . H . upon all that Mr , P . holds most sacred and essential in religion without cowardice or
indifference . And although he is " fully aware , " that the spirit which breathes throughout the pamphlet will be called illiberal , yet he " cannot call Unita rians , Christian brethren , with a good conscience , nor without deeming the apostles unchristian / ' i pf of
Th ^ series letter consists seyem The pbjeqt of the first letter is to state , that " it is notorious since Unitariamsm took the place of Calvinism in the old and endowed chapels of the Nonconformist ** , both the number and the nature of the stated worshipers in those places are materially altered .
The poor no longer crowd the aisles as formerly , and even the pews seem swept by a whirlwind / ' Now thia statement , although its truth be so " notorious , " we totally deny . It is not , " since Unitarianism took the place of Calvinism in the old and en ~ do wed ch&peleof the No neon for no i ** s / that the dow » o longer attend * < or
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/48/
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