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v Sir , NOTHING pleased me more in the interesting report of the Christian Tract Society ( pp . 189—191 ) than the statement of the acceptableness of the Tracts in France .
Since I read this account , I have obtained the foreign journal referred to , ( namely , Melanges de Religion , published at NismeSy ) and extract from the number for November , 1820 , ( Tom .
II . p . 32 , ) the passage glanced at in the Report . It is an addition of the editor ' s ( M . Vincent ) to a brief notice of the Christian Tract Society in a list of English Religious Societies , translated from Evans ' s Sketch of
Denominations . " On remarque dans les Trails qui e * manent de cette Socie ' te quelque chose de plus large , de plus propre a s ' accorder avec toutes les nuances du Christianisme , que dans les traite * s e * mane * s de la Socie ' te * des traite " s
religieux . On ne nous a guere fait connaitre en France que les derniers . " Hoping that the Christian Tracts will soon be better known to our French neighbours , I remain A CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATE .
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quotation , * and as the number and variety of his remarks supplied abundant occasion to mention it , the omission of all reference to it appears scarcely reconcileable to integrity of principle .
My only reason for addressing you at present is with a view to some objections which the Reviewer introduces to the statements contained in my Sermon preached at the Annual Meeting of the Unitarian Fund . The passage alluded to is the following : —
" Mr . Yates has published a Sermon , which he calls ' The Peculiar Doctrine * of the Gospel : The first half of this discourse is occupied in an attempt to shew what are not the Peculiar Doctrines of the Gospel . Then we come to what are so : and the three following are
given ; the resurrection of the deadthat the love of God is the first and greatest commandment — and universal philanthropy . We hardly think , however , that either of these doctrines can be called peculiar to the gospel . The Pharisees held the resurrection of the dead in common with St . Paul : * I have
hope toward God , ' said he , * which they themselves also allow , that there shall be a resurrection of the dead , both of the just and unjust . * ( Acts xxiv . 15 . ) Nay , a little while before he had only occasion to say that he maintained the doctrine , to make a party in his favour . ( See Acts xxiii . 6—9 . ) As to the doctrine that the love of God is the first and
greatest commandment , the scribes ( Mark xii . 32 , 33 ) and the lawyers ( Luke x . 26 , 27 ) seem to have had some idea of it . And , with regard to the doctrine of universal philanthropy , Christians have had it in common with Franklin , with
the French Theophilanthropists , and with Terence . It is singular that , on the subject of * the first and greatest commandment , ' Mr . Yates gives a reference to the very passage cited by us from St . Mark . St . Luke is decidedly against him ; and we find no reference to this apostle . " Pp . 148 , 149 .
To these observations I reply , that it was suitable to the title and the design of my Sermon to call any doctrines "Peculiar to the Gospel" which were promulgated through the medium of Divine Revelation only , although maintained by Jews as well as Christians . It is usual with the party
op-* Vind . of Unitarianism , Advertise ment to the second edition , quoted by the Reviewer at p . 176 * .
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Birmingham , Sir , March , 12 , 1821 . AM induced to request a few co-I lumns of your valuable Repository in consequence of the appearance of an article in the British Review for
this month , which the writer calls ** The Unitarian Controversy , " placing at the head the titles of Dr . Wardlaw ' s two publications , and of my Vindication of Unitarianism in reply to the former of them . I do not wish , however , to occupy the time of your
readers by answering any of the Reviewer's objections to what I have said in the work , of which he professes to give an account . His observations seem to be merely a selection from Dr . Wardlaw ' s second publication , entitled "" Unitarianism Incapable of 9
Vindication : They were answered more than four years ago , in my * ' Sequel to a Vindication of Unitarianism : It is , therefore , sufficient to refer to that work , and to observe , that , as the Reviewer was informed of its publication in the brief < r Advertisement , " from which he has made a
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204 Christian Tract Society .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/12/
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