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from the subject of the Atonement . He made some statements respecting the more extended use of the appellation Unitarian , which brought about a
discussion displaying too much of that polemical and even party spirit which the defence of truth does not require , and which the Christian ' s rule forbids . * The result has nevertheless been beneficial *
With a very few exceptions , the term Unitarian is now applied > among us , to all who hold the Absolute Unity and Unrivalled Supremacy of God even the Father , who regard Him as the Sole Object of Religious Worship , and view Him as the Sole Original Source of the
blessings which we possess through Christ Jesus . In compliance with what , at the period when I wrote my Letters to Mr . Veysie , was among all parties the prevalent use of the appellation , I employed
it in its more restricted sense , —implying a belief in the Proper Humanity of Christ . Since that time , I have gladly contributed to extend the application of the term , believing that the principles , which separate all who avow them from the
fellowship , and even the worship , of every Trinitarian Church , ought to be the bond of union among themselves ; and knowing that among the believers in the Proper Humanity of Christ , differences exist on points much more important than the Pre-existence . " f—Pp . 4—7 .
And , again , . " But what is more than all , ( to pass by some single sermons , the existence of which the Dean might have learnt from the Monthly Repository , J and the valuable tract on the Sacrifice of Christ , above noticed , §) the volume for 1814 contained , in four numbers , a judicious and able
* " I must , in this connection , refer my younger Unitarian brethren to an invaluable Discourse , entitled The Love of Truth a Branch ef the Duty of Benevolence , by J . Kenrick , M . A ., published by ft . Hunter , St . Paul ' s Church-yard . If the opponents of Unitarianism would read it , it might afford them also some useful lessons . "
+ ¦ " I refer to the state between death and the resurrection , and especially to the final condition of the wicked . On these topics , Unitarians , as well as other classes of their Fellow-Christians , are divided among themselves . "
X < c For instance , a truly evangelical and excellent Discourse by Mr . Madge , on the Salvation of Man by the Free Grace of God ; and another , by James Yates , M . A ., entitled The Nature , Manner , and Extent , of Gospel Salvation " § Mr . Fox ' s Letters to Dr . J . P . Smith . Ed .
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Review of the Discourses and Dissertations . The brief but comprehensive and acute strictures which are found there , certainly demanded the Dean ' s attention , and claimed some notice in his
subsequent edition : yet he still leaves unaltered in the fourth , p . 412 , the remark which appears near the close of the third , p . 492 . * It is now ten years [ more than twelve years ] since the first publication of this work ; and , during that time , neither Mr . Belsham , nor any of his
learned Unitarian fellow-labourers , have , as far as I know , favoured the public with any observations upon the arguments which it contains . ' Dr . Magee was , however , acquainted with the
number of the Monthly Repository for December 1814 ; and twelve pages of that number were occupied with the conclusion of a criticism on his work , from a pen which is guided by sound learning without ostentatious display . " *—Pp . 9 ,
10 . he following classification of the national clergy is , we believe , just : < c The characteristics of the Evangelical party in the Establishment are well known . Those who for some years were
spoken of as the True Church , are now ( it is understood ) termed Orthodox , and are distinguished by their firm attachment to the doctrines and discipline of the Church of England , as such , ( without reference to Calvinism or Arminianism , ) and their indisposition to unite with those
whom they term sectaries in religious objects of common interest . By the epithet Secular , 1 wish to denote that class , who are not solicitous about articles of faith and modes of worship on account of their supposed truth and value , but who are attached to the Church of
England as the religion of the State , and supported by its honours and emoluments ; and who believe that all worldly respectability is contained within its precincts . For the interest of religion one would willingly hope , that few deserve an exclusive place in this division ; but is not the secular spirit distinctly visible among many who class under the other
* c His Appendix ( says the judicious Reviewer , Monthly Repository for 1814 , p . 785 ) is highly discreditable to his reputation , both as a scholar and a gentleman ; and must class among the most censurable effusions of arrogance and unfairness in controversy . ' The Critic
had not the task of reviewing the Dean of Cork's Postscript , or he must have used still stronger expressions of censure . " Of this Review we must suppose the learned Dignitary ignorant : and yet > is it possible ?"
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its ? Review . ' —Dr . Carpenters Examination of Bishop Magee .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/48/
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