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mythology ; but this I do know , that they too have gods many , and yet I am informed by the respectable Reviewed < bif Miv Fox ' s sermon , that ; a ! S they worship " with an honest compliance with the dictates of an erring ¦¦ If
judgment /* they are not idolaters . ¦ even the more polished of the heathen world , had many gods , and differed one from another as to the particular god or image of their worship , and were considered idolaters , how . in the
name of common sense , can we reject ** Mr . Lindsey ' s opinion , that * Trinitarian w orship is Christian idolatry * " ? Have not the Trinitarians gods many ? I well remember to have heard from the Tabernacle pulpit , ( for , for many years I was a Tabernacle
man , ) addresses in the same prayer , to God the Father , God the Son ; God the Holy Ghost , and these compounded , making another god . If this gross worship had not been , again and again , obtruded upon my understanding , no doubt I should have kept
my seat there to this day ; ; fur I bear witness to their sincerity arid piety , ) but I thought this worship ( first ) a great impropriety , — -then a perversion of reason , —then , contrary to Scripture , —then idolatry , though without sin , because my worship was in "
honest compliance with the dictates of an erring judgment ; " nevertheless I have thought , and continue to think , 1 was an idolater , and a " Christian idolater" too , though not wilfully . I hope some one of your learned Correspondents will take this subject up ,
and inform your readers ( especially the class to which I belong ) what idolatry is , —distinguishing between Jewish , Heathen and Christian idolatry . In giving the above in your valuable Miscellany , you will greatly oblige a new subscriber . ¦ A . Z ,-
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Plymouth , Sir , March 28 , 1818 . A LTHOUGH it is our lot , as a -TjL sect > to be much spoken against , and we may expect from every quarter , both direct and indirect blows
from the parties which divide the Christian church , yet we have no occasion to apprehend offence where none was intended , nor to imagine that every advocate of orthodoxy means a fling at tis ? w hen he says
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something Htaiatared of a different party ! \ The ^ ings bf TWitariaiiS ii « those of men , alive to every touch ; aftd liable , therefore ^ to be unnecessarily awakened by the inuendos of the orthodox champions . I am inclined to think this has been
the case in a recent instance ; -- and , lest the alarm which has be * 'n iraised by a friend , warrti in the iiiterests of truth , should spread in the Unitarian circle , I must beg to- rectify what Iconceive a mistake , as to the opinion that is entertained by an eminent Scotch divine * of the actual state of
the Unitarian church , I refers Sir , to a declaration thade b y Dr . Chalmers , in the Introduction to his very celebrated Astronomical Sermons ; the passage is as follows : *• This was the sole attribute of his
theology , ( a firm belief in revelation , ) which I had in my eye when t presumed to eulogize it . 1 do not think that , amid the distraction and the engrossment of his other pursuits , he has at all times succeeded in his
interpretation of the book , else he would never in my apprehension , have abetted the leading doctrine of a sector a system , which has now nearly dwindled away from public observation . "
Now it has been thought that the Doctor here alludes to Unitariahism ; but this I apprehend is a mistake . 1 learn from a very intelligent gentleman , whose usual residence is at
Glasgow , that the opinion generally prevailing in the circles of that city is , that he refers to the Millenarian hypothesis , or the reign of Christ for a thousand years upon the earth . Hi& language is doubtful , and I do dot think we are warranted to apply it to the case of Unitarianism . Whether
Sir Isaac Newton was a Millenarian or not , I have not been able to discover either by my own researches or by those of an industrious friend . His tutor , Dr . Barrow , avowed this notion ; it was very generally prevalent at the
time Sir Isaac lived ; and the sweet influences of Christianity appear to have laid fast hold of his enlarged and philosophic mind ; it is , therefore , highly probable that a notion scV accordant with the moral and benevolent
sensibilities of man would be acceptable to > him . i Churchmen and Dissenters equally patronizing the opinion , lie might become its advocate
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On a Passage in &r * Chalmers s Astronomical Serm&ns . $ 0 f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/23/
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