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where Unitarian Christianity has been preached openly and manfully ; there # * iltill : tf ft ^ •* & iti tM da £ is > ofitlowe qjjid H ^ trryj' cfoWiif W ^ fc ^ ptn ^ God ' itt'i ^^ The charge , therefore , does not apply against Unitarian Ch risti ^ ns as such j it merely applies to those among that body , who
have never openly professed their principles ; to those who hivetra&rely preached a system of ethics , and who , while Jems and Paul have furnished them With ia text , have enforced the obligations to virtue , by the same sanctions as a Socrates or a Tully $
or , *• by frequently using certain phrases , with a view solely to please a party ,, Which may possibly , by an artful and forced explication , be made into somewhat rational , but which haVe been more likely to be understood in another more common and
obvious sense /* It is not , therefore , Unitarian Christianity which lids driven the poor kway , but Arianism , negative Unitarianism , and ethical preaching . The absurdity then of this argument must be apparent to all argument must be apparent to all
our readers . ' Indeed ^ sifter wading through five additional Letters , a little glimmering of light appears to have Broken in even upon the mind of Mr . Philip , for in his seventh Letter , p . 63 , he observes . v < I do not blame
your system at present for producing no moral effects on society ; it cannot of course exert its influence where it does not exist , nor improve the poor who will not listen to it . It woiild ,
therefore , be unjust to condemn XJnitarianisni for not accomplishing , what it has not the opportunity of trying . " One § utih , fact as tbajt of ^ he society at N ^ w ; 0 iurcli t Rossendale , embracing tH prh ^ iplcs < if Wttariaii Ch mti auity , wholly from iiij examination of
the Sc ^ ttrrc ^ , without the aid of commentators , without even knowing that t ^ t-e W ei-ie ipy pe rsons in the worta ^ of ^ iniiiar sentiments , is cnjite auTOoeitt tp overthrow atiy oWe £ ti <> ^ t * < iiir ^ rtwciplfea MUM ttim M T ^ ^ oiid , third , # « trth a ^ d fifth
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Letters , which alone bear any relatipn to the titte of the pamphlet , ^ re occupied in weighing Un * tariani « m in the scales of Prophecy arid Providettee . Mrl W contends , * hit Unitarians -are
the predicted antichrists , because they defty ttiat Jesus Christ fe come in the flesh , and also the Lord who booglit them . A nd that , if Unitarianism be the truth as it is in Jesus , it would exhibit on its side all the signal
interpositions of God since the Christian era ; but that it cannot be true , ' b& « cause Unitarianism is a modern system , is but as a shoot of yesterday These are , indeed , strong assertion ^ and our readers will no doubt be b ^ -
nous to see the proof which is to substantiate them . Alas ! r < br them , die whole proof upon which these charges are founded , is I John tV . 3 : " Evctt ^ spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the ilesh is not of
God , and this is that spirit of antichrist , whereof ye have heard that it should come . " From this passage Mr . P . argues , that the u expression ' come in the flesh , * intimates that He might have come otherwise than in the flesh , and , therefore , that he existed prior to his incarnation / ' And then , as if his inference had established
the fact , with the greatest self-complacency he observes , how the members of the Galatian church must " have smiled at Paul ' s truism , " his " silly truism , when he gravely wrote to them , that God sent forth his Son
made of a woman . But is it necessary at this time of day to inform Mr . Philip , what is known to every child in ecclesiastical history , that in the very days of the apostles , so contrairy to spiritual pride was it even then that all our hopes of immortality and bliss should rest upon the doctrines Of A crucified man , a sect arose , *' eveii
How already is it iti the worW / ' which declared that Jesus Christ was not a human being in reality , but merely in ^ pearancej that he had assumed a human body that he might becoin ^ visible to the gro $ s organs of sense , but that he was irt reality an immorfctl
spirit emanating from the Deity himself ? It was therefore , necessary f 6 r the apoatlea , in vindication of the truth of God , to assert that Jesus was really " coitte in the fesh / 1 that he ^ asrd « % - * tnade < rf A womAn / 1 Mr . Philip either * r" h >'< ¦ • -a , - t ! ?¦¦ K >) !¦ , '•«¦' , , -i lu . iirhii' )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/49/
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