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Whatever weight there be in this consideration , to those who think that revealed religion has any evidence , it must have some weight . A . R-
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to kneel down with him under the same roof ? To myself , at least , must every sanctuary but one be a house of Ritnmon ? Then , beybnd all doubt , instead of there being at no very remote period of time one house of
prayer for all the nations , must Christian temples be ever as multitudinous as Christian sects , and while only one Jerusalem should long ere tljis hare existed ou the globe , shall not every little precinct of each land teem for aye with its Gerizims ? Osad , shameful
prospect , for the C hristian world ! Was it for a consummation like this , that " the Logoscameuntohisown , " saluted us as brethren , proclaimed himself our only Master , taught us to believe in a common Saviour , and enjoined us to adore a common Father and a common
God !!! And that a happier vision has never yet , for ages past , not been realized , may not more of us than may be willing to criminate ourselves , have been verily most guilty ? The precepts of the Son of God on this single point of worship are
scarcely to be tortured by ingenuity into matters of " doubtful disputation . ' The good mode of an apostle ' s worship is a simple matter of fact that must be accessible alike to every reader of his Bible . But now , if a believer in this doctrine is to
determine in spite of them how they could not have worshiped , and a believer in that is to conjecture how they could not but have uniformly worshipedit to some palpable practice as an actual occurrence , one interpreter of the sacred oracle is to oppose his con- ^
struction , and to an unimpeachabl e authenticated system , another , his inference—if here a corollary is to be added because it is become necessary to my faith , and there a doctrine to be questioned because it is opposed to
your reason—farewell , doubtless al £ hope of unanimity , all approximation to concord . Yet , oh ! amidst the interminable Aceldama of controversy 9 shall never then one little basis peer big enough to rear upon it any but a
sectarian temple to Jehovah ? Alas ! alas ! must not the understanding be less at fault than the heart , when scarcely two disciples at their Master ' s feet alone can meet together in a sanctuary dedicated to concord as well as truth ? Shall Athanaaiu * daily oon-
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Mr . Clarke on his proposed Chaptt . &&&
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Sir , Sivakcleys , July 17 , 1818 . KNOW not whether 1 ought to feel I surprised at the reception which my well-me&ut , however questionable ,
project of a comprehensive , because fully scriptural form and place of worship [ p . 122 , ] seems to have received from the Unitarian public . An assurance of our own absolute
infallibility , and a disposition to anathematize in some degree or other all who differ from us in opinion , are perhaps infirmities of which many more theologians are guilty than conscious . Assuredly , let the image fall from Jupiter , and what model so pure or perfect as that
we placed last in our own dear little inch-wide sacristy > The Trinitarian not content with his mysterious modificatioiT of an incomprehensible Being , must proceed to counting each on his
fingers , and then call upon the whole world at the peril of their immortal part , to fall down and worship before the idol , which his licentious imagination has set up , arrayed in all its fantastic and unaccredited lineaments .
The Unitarian in a too kindred spirit , hesitates not to cry out as well as fasten idolatry on the man who understands the term " Lord" as applied to Christ by an apostle in any other sense than that which he has
been pleased to attach to it , in correspondence with his most deliberate and conscientious convictions- All this is human nature , I admit , but is it , let me ask , genuine Christian philosophy ? Or if in our own closets , it be both , is it so every where or any
where else ? And even there , for my part , 1 am not ashamed to avowhonest haply in my own eyes , wrong most certainly in every pair beside , is a sentiment , an impression , worth a thousand times all the best dogmatism of the most conscientious bigotry . But
Bet the merit of an errhng conviction , and exclusive rectitude of judgment be what they may , must they be always acted up to and followed out ta ^ their every legitimate consequence ? Must every man construe his Bible precisely as I do , before I can consent
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 559, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/23/
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