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exercise of tk& iaalienable right and ctaty of private * judgment , and left , unbiassed by powjer and interest , to warship the God of his fathers in that way which he
deems most accordant with Cfonstian principle . Were I a . Trinitarian , I should desire that period as earnestly as I do at present : because I could not less , believe that Christ ' s kingdom is Dot of this
world . " That period will be accelerated by every instance in which the gradual yet rapid progress of enlarged and enlightened views is lost sight of ; and , on the other hand , it is reasonable to suppose , that it will be retarded by every instance of wise accommodation to the liberal spirit of the
times . Were 1 from conviction a member of the Church of England , 1 would aim to promote such accommodation , Truth cannot vary ; but the modes of maintaining and promoting it must have some relation to circumstances , or they must be ineffectual . "—Pref . pp . xiii . —
xv . The Monthly Repository has had the honour ( for such , of course , we must esteem it ) of being occasionally , though , as will appear , superficially , read by the Bishop of Raphoe . The following passage will shew how complacently his Lordship inferred , both from what he read and what he did
not read in our numbers , that the Unitarians had abandoned the controversy on the Atonement : in quoting it , we make one omission , that of the name of the Editor of this work , introduced by an inadvertence , for which Dr . Carpenter has subsequently expressed more than sufficient regret .
" Dr . Magee ' s supposition , that the Unitarians had relinquished the prosecution of this controversy , appears , however , to have been in part produced by a singular train of reasoning which is found in the Postscript , p . 355 [ 819 ] . * He had informed his readers , near the beginning
of his Postscript , p ., 73 [ 537 ] , that ' the Editors of the Unitarian Journal' had , in their number for December , 1814 , * no ~ tified their intention of making the doctrine of the Atonement the subject of their special examination , in a , series of
ensuing publications , ' and , * for this purpose iiivited * the fre « conxnaunications of the several co-respondents . ' In this last passage he tella thejn that a letter . of Mr . Frend ' s oa the , subject of Atonement , drawing < a broad line of distinction
be-* These double figures refer to the different paging of Dr . Magee ' s Work in different editions . Ed .
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tween himself and such Unitarians as Mr . Belsham , ' 'there is good reason to thmky had the effect of deterring * the conductors of that journal from carrying forward the discussion on that subject / The Editor of the Monthly Repository , and Mr . Frend , could tell him tbaft hi&
inference was erroneous ; and' any reader of that journal might shew Mite that it was unfounded . But I go ftwther , and say that it is a proof of the most culpable negligence , in one who wsis bringing such heavy and numerous ^ charge s- against his brethren-, if he did not know that it was unfounded . Dr . Magee has shewn
us that he was well acquainted' with the volume for 1815 , * in which it was ear * nestly hoped by many that the doctrine of Atonement would have received a-full discussion : he , therefore , ought to have known the two following facts . ( 1 ) Mr . Freud's letter ( inserted in the first number for the year 1815 ) did not deter the Editor from carrying forwards the
promised discussion ; for he introduced communications on the subject even to the very last number of the volume , f- And ( 2 ) Mr . Frend himself , having by vague expressions , drawn what Dr . Magee calls a ' broad line of distinction , ' maintained a persevering silence as to the import of them , though repeatedly called upon to define precisely the difference existing between himself and the Unitarians to >
whom he referred . J . " It is , however , the fact , that Mr . Frend ' s letter contributed to lead away
* " See Postscript , p . 352 [ 816 ] , where there is an enumeration of above twenty pages , ( from p . 226 to p . 745 , ) as references to papers respecting the use of the appellation Unitarian " f " In this number are several of the papers referred to in the preceding note , and included in the Dean ' s enumeration ;
and there can , therefore , be no doubt that he was not ignorant of its contents . What must we say , then , when we perceive that the first paper , under the head of Miscellaneous Communications , is an
able Letter expressly on the Atonement , and that the writer ( G . of Manchester ) adverts to the ' hardy assertions and inimitable criticisms of Dr . Magee * ? See Monthly Repository for 1815 , p . 738 . "
X " With a specific view to my own inquiries , I also solicited Mr . Frend to state his views in the Monthly Repository , but without effect ; and I do not find that he has ever given his Unitarian brethren any clue to his meaning . That view of the ends of the death of Christ which , possibly , he adopts , I shall have occasion to notice hereafter . "
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BevieiW « . I C -+ > v » arpenter * * Examination qf BMhop Magee . 111
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/47/
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