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Should the reader begin to ask whether our modern Trinitarians aFe not becoming avowed Polytheists , -aiid to exclaim , What was there in Paganism itself more palpably absurd than that three Being's are one Being ?—the Reviewer sitenees him with tlje remark ,
that this a subject on which he , tke reader , and the Reviewer , and the great Dr . Dwight , and all ih $ Trinitarians , and all the Unitarians , know nothing , absolutely nothing , and therefore one proposition is as good as another , and no man can be fairly charged with absurdity :
« The ideas intended by the words God ( here denoting the Infinite Existence ) and Tripersondl ' 9 are not and cannot be possessed b y any man . Neither Trinitarians nor Unitarians , therefore , can , by any
possible effort of the understanding , discern whether this proposition be true or false , or whether the ideas denoted by the words God and Tri-personal , agree or disagree . "—P . 262 .
This is a curious sample of Dissenting orthodoxy of the more erudite sort : with one more item of self-complacent bigotry in the true spirit of the Athanasian Creed , we shall conclude this amusing , though somewhat disgusting , catalogue of Trinitarian novelties :
< The question at issue is , not so much whether the Saviour is Divine , as whether man needs a Saviour . —If Unitarians are not recognized as Christians , let it always be remembered , that it is not because they reject the doctrine of the Divinity oi Christ , but because they reject with that , and we think consistently reject , the whole of the Christian system . "—P . 265 .
This nameless writer decrees wi $ U one stroke of hie pen * that Unitarians , ( Newton , Lardner and Lindsey , ) are not Christians ; they reject the whole of the Christian system . They renounce , that is to say , a certain system , on which the calculations of the
proprietor of the Eclectic Review , as to its success * are ibuaded , and which is defended by certain anonymous persons M so much per sheet , and , therefore , they shall not be Christians nor have
Christ for a Savicwr ! Q 001 I Ectectfe 1 call them Att * ekjtsM once * they , < Us-< , ^ « ^ Triipe God , consisting , of * ree Infinitely perfect Beings / 'and you say there fe no God hesides , and tterefoite nhey believe not iw God * but are drt ^ iuriglit . Athefefes . Q . E . 1 X ^^^^^ fiy ^^^ M ^^^^^^^ ^ r
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Sir , Liverpool , Oct . 7 , 1821 . SEND you the following extract I from a ! letter lately received from a friend in the United States of America / which may be interesting fcb your *
readers , not only as it shews the opinloi * entertained by an iiitelligeBt and highly respectable foreigner of tj * e Diftsentiiig body of England , but also &s coatajn ^ ing some pertinent observations on Bishop Marsh ' s celebrated r Quest& >* is ~ AN ENGLISH D 1 SSENTB&
" I read the MontWy Sle ^ itofJ mth much pleasure , and think it ha $ Ba ^ atiy excelient papers . In my opinion there is ho class of people more tfesrpecitafcjie * thwit the English Disseuters ; I meati ; those s / tho are well educated , and really charitable and liberal . Bat they are , as being a sect , frowned upon by the GkreewHpaeiit , and this makes them , as I think ,
unreasonably jealous and hostile to tl * e adfmnistratiou for the time bei ^ g . They ^ re , moreover , perpetually insulted and uaisrepresented by the bigots of the Establishment , and this produces , unhappily something of a coi * respondiA ^ narrx > wi ^ eW » oa their side . On the w ^ ole , however , I
love them , their character aad ^ ieir spirit , and pray that ' my soul aaay he wth these peopled I admire your & £ r . Richard Wright . Be is qwte au extraoi ^^ ary man , and possesses the true appstoJical character of a Christian minister . There
have been , and still are , such men among the English Dissenters , and now and flijfea also ainoug the Missionaries abroa d * f n the English Establishment they can hardly arise ; or if they do , would probably be discpuntenanced , if not expclied ; I see the Bishop ( of Lincoln , * t think ) Marsh
has lately obliged his clergy to sign eightyseven new articles of faith . An pepub would understand the Scriptures in d \ ffei cut senses , Queen Elizabeth , in , or ^ er to produce an uniformity of faithy established Thirty-nine Articles , which are the Bible of all good ^ hur ch men . $ Jo tv it
seems the Bishop has discovered that a subscription does not ensure this uniformity , and that these Thh $ y- * iiiie want eighty-seven moi ^ to explain in what seuse they are held I And what adds tc * the absurdity is , th ^ t these eighty-seven
are intended to keep out those persons who hold the original Ulriity-aine in their original sense I At least it seems to . Jli 6 that the Calvinists had the greatest sh ^ ro in their icompbsltion / ' y
* This mistake is pardonable in a deeceudant of * he men * thom \ Jur * iu $ * ttesciibes as cros ^ ihg the Atlantic to g < Jt out of the way of bishops 4 ift «*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 603, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/35/
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