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reasoning powers ^ are apt to rest for some time in speculative religion , and to allow the activity of the intellect to supply the place of a vital principle in the soul . This is an evil aiising out of
that scholastic theology which has heaped extraneous additions upon the simplicity of gospel truth ; and which must necessarily be first combated b y the application of the reasoning faculties . Mr . Yates , however , if I recollect
bright , by no means concedes that these 'Unitarian converts are " content to dwell in arguments for ever- /* and I trust and believe that there are many families that worship the Father through his Son , with whom religion is a sanctifying principle and a warm , though steady , feeling .
The necessity of defensive argument , in a manner peculiar to a ¦•• sect every where spoken against /* gives a controversial and philosophical air to our pulpit discourses ; &ud , perhaps , the fact of enthusiastic demonstrations of
religious emotion beings often found in Union with superstitious notions , has 'led-Unitarians to affect a coldness foreign to their sentiments ; to assume more of a philosophic than a reli g ious exterior ; and to yield a compliance with worldlv customs and manners of
- §* &&& a * dr ^ ad appearing " righteous dVetf ^ uudb /* and fro m the hab it of connecting a rigid scrupulosity and Banetimbniousness of behaviour with gloomy ¦ tenets' of religion ; The effect ^ of this 86 rt of lantagonism shewed itself -tispjr ^ maimB as well as
misehievoasly , m theuqo ^ d uct of the Chu rchmen at the Restwaition ; ? who , in deft'mod oft tfcfe JPuritans , ^ onnivedj at a 'If ^ entiou ^^ lieaireioand a Sunday rear ' - mmmrsitm ^
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\ m ^ m ^ ¥ »^ m ^ the congregations have dwindled ^ away ' a fact which has bee » aseribeiLib yithfi bigoted calumniators of : what S ^ eyim ^ roperfy call Sochwanism , to
something barren and' tmsaitisfyiag : ija the nature- of Unitarian Mth ; instead of to its proper ; cause—the coW , . generalizing and unbiblical method pursued by Unitarian preachers . // M 3 » e * e :
Unitarians have preached i s te&tually && evangelicallyi instead of ^ livering Deistical essays on na , t « ire I or ! Ciceronian theses on morals , ah effect has been produced no less > awakening to tbe heart and conscience ^ than : what liiafcformfly results from the plain Seripture-preaching of eminent Methodists :
and , in fact , the ^ ame congregations which have ^ decreased under the lecturer on .. ethie& ^ riphysics , * have reple * nished their deserted pews vyhenever an evangelical mode of preaching , consistent notwithstanding with the aposr
tolie basis of One God the Father , has been introduced or revived . The same remarks apply to prayer . Unitarian prayer has * too much resembled a dissertation : it had lmie more of prayer than the form . ; but > it is . a mistake to
suppose that Unitarian congregations prefer this . That Hainiste * has imodt hearers who , instead of dryly enumerating the attributes of God ; m : e ^ atiating on the works of his , material creation , pours out i » his sopl in , the affectionate fervour of gratitude jGur-hb works of grace , ani utters th § eloquent and impassioned language ^• " a brokeB ¦ i ¦ ¦
and contrite spirit . ? ' , .: 4 ¦ - ¦ •' : ' Thi » is , i I , conceive , a Mt jstatemeot of the circumatances ia w ^ ich the Unitarians- are placed , ; &nd . whieh' hav ^ ^ casionallv t ^ ffofded a colour ,. fofo t »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1820, page 590, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2493/page/26/
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