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be made to the Father only . And if such doxblogies only were admitted , as are found in Scripture , the supreme and incommunicable glory of the Father would be fully proclaimed . Among sucLua people I believe this
doctrine could not exist ; it would die a natural death : vet the distinction of this people would be derived , not from their opinion on this or any other disputed point , but from their broad principle of scrupulous adherence to the gospel , which few could dare to dispute , though fewer would submit to
practise . I I should feel much gratified at a friendly reply to these remarks from any of your readers . practise . should feel much gratified at a friendly reply to these remarks from any of your readers .
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fi&ge of my creed , whatever violence offer in doing so , to my reason or my faith ; the Son of God to be God the Son , and a divine person equal with the Father . I am a Unitarian , and must believe , in the technical
phraseology of my sect , the simple humanity of Christ , and the finite duration of human punishment . The Trinitarian is an idolater , the Unitarian " cannot be saved . " How can a consistent Unitarian pray to Christ ? How can
a consistent Trinitarian recognize the sole supremacy of the Father ?—Is there an honest man who attaches himself to any religious party by name that is not conscious of such unjustifiable influences on his mind ? Is there a candid one who will not confess that
they have sometimes intercepted inquiries , and even opinions that might have issued in very different conclusions to those with which he is at present satisfied ? Is there a pious and benevolent man whose head or heart
does not often remonstrate against their ascendancy ? To what purpose these less generic names ? They apologize for no error ; they justify no opinion ; they warrant
no issue ; they conclude no question . May I not found my one only hope of heaven on my Saviour ' s death , would many a * Bible only" Christian say to himself , and be an Unitarian ? If
not , then am I no Unitarian : I care not . May I not hold daily intercourse with him in thought , in converse , in prayer , and be an Unitarian ? It matters not to me : would John , would Paul , have ever renounced such
intercourse but with their lives , is the only question I care to ask , and am satisfied , let me belong to what named or unnamed class of believers I may . To be a Unitarian , must I believe that our High Priest , passed into the
heavens , my Advocate with the Father , my Intercessor at the right hand of God , knows no more of my sighs , my tears , before the throne of grace , than any other man , who never ascended into heaven , who never died for my sins , who never rose again for my justification ? Could I hold the contrary opinion and be blameless as ay apos ~
tolical Christian , is still ail that 1 am solicitous to know , all that I can pos ^ sibiy be interested to determine . O , but they are so compendious , so
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On Sectarian Names and Controversies . 28 §
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Sir , April 9 , 1820 . HAVE been reading the leading I article of the British Critic for the last Month , and the more I read in theology , the more and more only do I lament and deprecate sectarian names and sectarian controversies in religion . What is Trinitarianism ? What is Unitarianism ? What is Arianism ? What is Southcottianism ? &c . &c .
To any disciple of Christ , what matters it one straw what they are , have been , or ever will be ? "In that day when the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed , " shall it be asked , Was you a Trinitarian ; a Unitarian ; a member of the Church of Rome ; a member of the Church of England ; a member of the Church of Otaheite ? Of whom
but Christ is a Christian " to learn" ? On whose name did the apostles call , whose authority did they plead , whose commission did they bear , in whom did they hope to be saved ? But admitting , as we therefore legitimately
may , the titles of Christian , and of apostolical Christian , to be identified , wh y not at least stop here ; whither , whither else , or one step beyond , need we ever , ever ought we to go for the words of eternal life ?
The titles are as mischievous as they are unwarranted . Witness every record where they occur ; they become immediatel y rallying points to error and to hostility . They do more than every cacoethes besides , to perpetuate division in a church , whose character-18 tic should be inviolable unity . I a ! * i a . Trinitarian ; I must therefore somehow or other believe , in the Ian-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/27/
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