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    writer ' s argumei * t , < that the difficulties which clog the existmg gospels oppose themselves to it ^ i-eceptiOn . Are there ** anjri perplexities to be unravelled" in the declaration that " there is one God , and one Mediator between God arid rmen * the > mill Christ Jesus ^

    iJin the preaching of Peter , that * ' Jesus of NazarethJw& » a man approvedof God b y imrafcles and wonders and signs which God did by him" ?—or in

    that of Paul , that " God had appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained , whereof he hath given assurance to all men in that he hath raised him from the dead" >

    The writer may shut us out of ** the churches of Christendom $ " but , as he has confessed the authenticity of the book of Acts , and of Paul's general epistles , he has in that very admission borne testimony -that we are the church of Christ : " So we preach and so they believe / ' When the writer , therefore ,

    ventures to assert that " Christianity has never been proposed to the Unbeliever in its native purity , * ' he contradicts both himself and the facts : for as to his implication that the canonical gospels do not so exhibit it , this is a

    mere begging of the question in dispute ; and wherever the Unitarian faith has made proselytes , it is by the aid of those very gospels which he describes as exclusively favourable to the corruptions of Christianity . Vet we are to admit the necessity of government's interfering with p rosecutions for blasphemy , because it is

    impracticable to convince Unbelievers by argument , in the existing state of the written word , and because government is the guardian of the public tranquillity . What is meant by " the torrent threatening to overwhelm the peace and security of the nation / ' I cannot guess . I have seen and h&ard

    of -tumultuous meetings for reform . of -tumultuous meetings for reform , but I Jiave neither heard of nor seen any insurrectionary prayer-meetings in honour of the ; " unknown God . " It seems this writer , who Rives the

    orthodox credit for their doctrines being justified : by ¦ scripture , . ; admits ,. with equally respectful acc [ uiescence , that c ^ i ^ ii ieA ^ s ^) thafeft bia ^ eflm aptjr and */ i flulTwiissipn to the laws of tRi& * j !^ larvae ; lind- t ^^ aiHe

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    fin < Jr !«| bd £ & |^^ foiih as an ^ aertor of *^ the nat \ v ^ purity * ' ; of the religioa ofrhim w ^ a said , " My kingdom is not of this

    WOrldift * ' ( i »> t > r | r * u * ' ^); u ^ Ti ' jnr : 'Y -r ^ But if , politically spewing , goyen \^ ment would be justified in . repressing the expression of infidel opinions " by the strong arm of the law , ^ it would only be , f suppose , from the probability that the remedy wou P be effectual . Now it is notorious that the reverse is

    the case . Persecution ? adds importance to the man , and the stimulus of curiosity to the matter : nor is this ^ 1 ; for the inference is naturally drawn , that as they who have recourse to the > pow : er of the law are reduced to this mode of

    defence through the impotence of argument , the InfideL is imprisoned because he cannot be answered . The government arc , therefore , defended by the necessit ] M > f extirpating opinions subversive of national peace and security , ( meaning private judgments in matters of religion , ) ^ in their adoption of means which halve an inevitable

    tendency to propagate what they are applied to extirpate . If , then , the writer mean that this "torrent " , threatened to overwhelm the religion of the State , the same necessity of repression by the €€ strong arm of the law , " ( a most goodly and

    all-juptiifying phrase , )" may be made put ; f # r ^ . T ^ p ^^^ m . ^ tO ( ^ . ^ M 0 f ||}^^ agam W ^ ft &Wj ^

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    > •¦ i ; . ¦ ' '¦' t ; . . - . < • t , t ' '» , m 7 * The commissioners were empowered to visit and reform all errors , heresies , schisms ; bv dhriwfy tp : $ tig $£ te 9 & opiniqqs , m , WRftjB 0 M | i' 4 ^^ uniiforiwity- > 8 llm&i ^^ toty ^ t M ****^^ juries and wtilmMN ^^

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    The Canonital . Gospels the suppert , of Unitarian GkrhjAanity . IIS

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1820, page 713, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2495/page/25/