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one idolatry to plunge them into another . . in the mean time , it may shew the call that there is on those who hold the old C hristian truth , " There is one ( rod , and one Mediator between God and men , the man Christ Jesus , ' to be active , not only at home but
abroad , lest Christianity should be misrepresented all over the world . May God grant that there may soon be missionaries of this description , that it may appear , under his blessing , that the simple and genuine gospel is mightier than any corruption of it . HOPEFUL .
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doctrines , on which wise men have d iffered ? This was the impression your worthy Correspondent ' s paper made on my mind ; but how is this statement reconcilable with the Attorney-General ' s opinion ? And if things , after all , are so , that we are amenable ,
should we not apply for farther protection ; for it signifies but little whether I spend my time in prison , from sinning against common law , or from transgressing the enactments of a positive penal statute } J . F .
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366 On the Review of Mr . Fox $ Sermon before the Unitarian Fund ,
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Palgrave , Sir , February 6 , 1818 . PRESUMING that the Author of the " Survey , " in your last Number , [ pp . 77—80 , ] is correct in . what he states , I am very sorry to find that the Attorney-General should , on ' the
late trials , have distinctly stated that Unitarians are still amenable to the common law for transgressions against established doctrines- The worthy writer points out an obvious method , as he thinks , by which we may avoid
every evil , but I am not quite sure that his plan will give us sufficient latitude . It is hardly enough for us to preach our opinions unless we may contrast them witJh those of our opponents , and thus discover the relative
deformity , but supposing we could do so , still being jealous of any encroachment on religious liberty , I beg to ask your legal Correspondents , whether or not this be not a new doctrine , ** that we are amenable to the common
law" ? I am aware that Christianity is considered as part of the common law , though , unless it can stand without this prop , perhaps some may think it not worth preserving . But I was
not aware that any particular form of Christianity , to use the words of a Church Dignitary , was so established by common law , as to make those who differed from that established doctrine
sinners against the law . In fact , was not your able Correspondent , who sent you an account of indictable offences not many months since , correct in shewing that , upon all informations thus laid , the judges uniformly made a difference between impugning the evidences of Christianity , and the questioning of the validity of these
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Sib , March 11 , 1818 . IN reading the critique on Mr . Fox ' s sermon , delivered before the Unitarian Fund Society , 28 th-March , 1817 , [ p . 137 , 3 * was struck with what I conceived to be a great impropriety ; and as my only wish is to be guided
by reason and truth , I shall feel greatly obliged to any of your Correspondents to relieve my mind from the perplexity I labour under in consequence . The critique informs me , that Trinitarians , as . such , are not idolaters , because their worship is the result of " an honest compliance with the dic-1
tates of an erring judgment . * Until now , Mr . Editor , 1 had thought that the worshiping of any object , other than the great Creator of all things , wad idolatry , although , at the same time , I did not think the sin of idolatry was of equal magnitude in all . For instance , the Roman Catholic
maintains the efficacy of saint-worship , the Heathen nations the efficacy of worshiping the sun , moon , fire , wood , stone , &c . &Cw ; but as this worship results from ignorance more or les $ according to the degree of light and knowledge which they might , or might
not have , so I thought would be their sin before the Almighty . But if these people worship , according to the Reviewer , with an honest compliance with the dictates of aii erring judgment , " they are not idolaters . What then is idolatry ? 1
Again : " Mr . Fox , * says the Reviewer , " seems to maintain Mr . Lindsey ' s opinion , that * Trinitarian worship ^ is Christian idolatry . * " Now , Mr . Editor , lam not very well ac - quainted with ancient mythology , but I am told they had gods many and lords man y ; neither . am 1 sufficiently acquainted with modern or Christian
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/22/
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