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book , and several English translations being current in the market . Dr . Smallbrook , Bishop of ^ St . David ' s , says of this > vork , that Grotius in the composition of it * was , among several other authors , more especially assisted by the valuable
performance of a writer otherwise justly of ill fame , viz . Faustus Socinus's little book De Auctoritate S . Scripturte . ' ( Charge to the Clergy of St . David ' s , 1729 . ) The reader will be at no loss to discriminate between the verdict of the critic and charitable denunciation of the
bishop . " Stegman ' s treatise is an excellent little compendium . It is appended , as stated above , to Brennius ' s Commentary on the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament , which is often classed as a tenth volume of the Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum . "—Pp . 9—11 . [ To be continued . ]
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Art . II . —The £ > eist 9 the Christian , the Unitarian : a Sermon delivered fit the Chapel in Trim Street , Bath , on Sunday , November 28 , 1819 . By Joseph Hunter . Bath , printed . Sold , in London , by Hunter . 1819 . 12 mo . pp . 31 .
FOR delivering and publishing such a sermon no apology * was needed . Mr . Hunter presents us with a highly judicious and seasonable discourse , from Heb . x . 23 , 24 [ Let us holdfast , &c ] : the occasion or it was evidently a recent trial , in which , to use this preacher ' s language , " a bold
and forward Deist" pretended " to identif y his opinions" with those of Unitarian Christians ; " declaring that the name [ Unitarian ] was common to him and to them , and that the law made for the protection of Unitarians was a law for the protection of the professors of Deism . "
Mr . Hunter does not intimate the faintest approbation of the interference of the magistrate for the alleged support of one set of religious opinions and for the suppression of another . The abstpct princinle of prosecutions of this kind "Unitarian Christiana have
always marked with censure : and it seems impossible to add any thing to the clearness and good sense with which the subject was long ago , treated by the incomparable Lardner , who , in a letter to Dr . Waddington , then Bishop of Chichester , says , * f
* Advertisement and pp . 7 , 8 . t Works , Vol I , Life ; - ** cxvii , &c .
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" Your Lordship freely declares , he [ Woolston ] ought not to be punished for being an Infidel , nor for writing at all against the Christian religion ; which appears to me a noble declaration . If the governors of the church and civil magistrates had all along acted up to
this principle , T think , the Christian religion had been before now well nigh universal . But I have supposed it to be a consequence from this sentiment , that if men have an allowance to write against the Christian religion , there must be also considerable indulgence as to the manner likewise . This has
appeared to me a part of that meekness and forbearance which the Christian religion obliges us to - y who are to reprove , rebuke , and exhort with all long-suffering . The proper punishment of a low , mean , indecent , scurrilous way of writing , seems to be neg lect , contempt , scorn , and general indignation . " We submit to our readers , whether
these observations are applicable or not to the case of Richard Carlile ? In our own judgment , they completely dispose of it : we do not partake in the spirit , we do not subscribe to the
reasoning , of his prosecutors . Nor , on the other hand , shall we admit that , so far as concerns religious sentiment , he has any thing in common with Unitarians : it is a broad and an obvious
line by which he and they are mutually separated . At the same time , whatever be our opinion of him personally , we are strangers to the Antichristian and savage feelings which such journals as the Courier have expressed , in consequence of his sufferings . We
cannot triumph over him : we cannot venture to pronounce that he is no object of compassion and relief on the part of those whose views and expectations are the most diametrically opposite to his own . If . Archbishop Seeker , as his biographer informs us , * more than once extended his bounty "
to the distressed and " wretched authors " , of publications ' " manifestly calculated to corrupt good morals or subvert the foundations of Christianity , " siurely Protestant Dissenters and Unitarian Christians may thus far imitate his example iand be blameless ! So much for the wcum&ta , nces which have given rise to Mr . flutter ' s
* Ported Works ; Vf . 65 .
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106 Review . —The Deist , the Christian , the Unitarian .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/42/
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