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he evidently alludes , and had said of them—persons , who in modern times have assumed the exclusive appellation of Unitarians . Against this modern arrogance I have protested , and shall continue to protest ; and I am happy
to find , by an extensive intercourse with Unitarians , that the body in general is free from this arrogance , and a very great majority are far from allowing that the maintaining of certain dogmas is to make a part of the Unitarian creeds—dogmas which do not relate to the Unity of God , but to some circumstances in the Christian
faith , on which there is room for a vast diversity of opinions . Our departed friend and the writer of the Memoir had reason to be offended at this exclusion , and this new use of language in the Christian world . I have heard them both
express it , and I have joined in the disapprobation of such language . I have my own opinions on the tenets which the dogmatical Unitarians have laid down as articles of their creed , and am under the same interdict with my friends though on different grounds upon this subject . So far from denying to our friends the title of Unitarians .
I am happy in thinking , that we maintained the same opinions on the great object of religious worship ; and I hope that the writer of the Memoir will not leave the world , of which he is , and may he long continue to be so great an ornament , without impressing
on his congregation , that he is in the true sense of the word an Unitarian , and that he is not to l > e deterred by the exclusion of dogmatical Unitarians , from claiming his right to this title . I ani sorry to have witnessed this dogmatical spirit in the Unitarian body . A little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump . Popery gradually rose to its enormous height from equally small beginnings . One tenet after another was introduced as necessary to a Christian ' s faith , and enrolled under tlie specious title of orthodoxy . That the Unitarians may not slide into the same error is the sincere prayer of W . FREND .
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^ mmmmmm » Dock , Sir , February 7 , 1821 . np ^ HE following resolu on" having - * - been unanimously voted at a special meeting of therUnitariaa Christian
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Church in this town , held January 7 th , I take the liberty , upon my own responsibility , to transmit it for insertion in the Repository ; under an impression , that as the Course of Lectures which form the subject of it , lias not been noticed in your Magazine , its insertion may tend to excite the
attention of those who have not yet had the pleasure of perusing this interesting volume , and perhaps to stimulate the worthy author to persevere ia his active and laudable efforts to revive and
extend the invaluable blessings of primitive Christianity . " Resolved , That the warmest thanks of this meeting be presented to the Rev . George Hams , of Liverpool , for the publication of his eloquent Course of Lectures on Unitarianism and
Trimtarianism , to tne re-delivery of which from our pulpit , during the last twelve weeks , we have listened with feelings of peculiar delight , and , by the excellent sentiments it contains , so clearly elucidated and so energetically enforced , our minds have received superior illumination , and our bosoms have been animated with an increase
of zeal in the noble cause of pure , unadulterated Christian truth /' I am aware that some refined and fastidious critics may not be disposed to bestow upon these Lectures so warm a testimony of approbation ( and it cannot be denied that there are marks
of haste in some of them , which will , no doubt , be corrected in a new edition ) ; but it should be borne in mind , that it was not the author ' s intention to compose a series of polished essays for the libraries of men of literature , but to set his hearers and readers a
thinking on subjects of the highest importance ; and I am persuaded , that no work which has fallen under my inspection is better calculated to effect this very desirable object . Originality is not absolutely essential to this purpose : the most difficult part seems to be the moulding the materials into such a form as to arrest the attention
of a mixed assembly ; and in this Mr . Harris has certainly succeeded : which opinion is fully corroborated by the excitement produced when the Lectures were first delivered in Liverpool , and also when they were re-delivered In Dock . With regard to the latter , I think , I may safely assert , from personal observation , that never was the
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Harris ' s Lectures . —Deficiency of Zeal . 225
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/33/
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