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REVIEW. €€ Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame,'* — Pope.
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Art . I * — Unitarians not Infidels , a Sermon preached before an Association of Unitarian Christians at JHull , Sept . 29 , 1818 , in which are also defined the Nature and Objects of the Association . By John Platts , Unitarian Minister at Doncastfer .
pp . 12 . Hunter . Art . II . — The Antidote : or Unitarians proving themselves to . be Infidels , by dent / ing' the Doctrines of the Bible . Remarks upo ? i a Sermon
preached by John Platts , Unitarian Minister at Doncaster . By Evan Herbert , Minister of the Gospel . pp . 10 . Two pence , or Twelve Shillings per hundred . Warwick , Heathcote and Foden .
Art . III . —Letters addressed to the Calvinistic Christians of Warwick , occasioned by the Rev . Evan Herbert ' s Publication , entitled The Antidote , SfC . By a Unitarian Christian , pp . 170 . Warwick , printed ; and sold by Hunter , London . 3 s 6 d .
WE should have before introduced to the notice of our readers , this controversy , which has called forth a most able and superior defence of Umtarianism , but that the last article was not known to us until very lately . The Sermon , preached by Mr . Platts , * and originating the other two
pamphlets , wa 3 composed and delivered > vith the immediate object of rebutting those calumniating charges which , in tbe absence of more effective argument , it has of late years been fashionable , both in the Church and out of . it , to prefer against the principles of
Unitarians . That the Unbeliever himself should endeavour to establish this pretended relationship with 113 is by no means surprising , when we think of tUp cO ^ pfchient shelter of p artial toleration it has pleased the €€ Church and State" to ' altow Unitarianism , a moiety of which he seeks through a family
* This seems to Jje a new edition , with another title , of the Sermon of which we took uoti ^ , XIU . 768 . Kp .
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connexion . But that any bigotry , assuming to itself the character of Christian , should dare to deprive us of that merited and dignified title , is scarcely credible , and claims a monopoly more odious than any pretended to by the Star Chamber or St . Peter's : nor
could a more cruel ingratitude be perpetrated against a class of Christians who ma }' , perhaps , challenge the whole aggregate body of the Christian world for the Biblical learning and labour they have bestowed on the advancement of the great common cause , and more particularly on the external evidences of revelation . It cannot be
necessary to appeal to the most able and popular answers which Popery and Scepticism have received from the time of Chillingworth to the numerous and victorious confutations of the sophisms of Hume , Gibbon and Paine ; the great majority of which were the work of Unitarian Dissenters . We have had
too much contempt to notice this ecclesiastical slander on all occasions of its recent promulgation by the mitred prelate and itinerant preacher , willing to leave it to its own refutation , and bein £ quite of Archbishop Tillotson ' s sensible opinion in his remarks on Infidelity and * Socinianisin "— " If
this be Socinianism , for a man to inquire into the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion , and to endeavour to give a satisfactory account why he believes it , I know np way but that all considerate and inquisitive men , that are above fancy and enthusiasm , must be either Socinians or Atheists "
To the same purport we give the following- extract from the Sermon of Mr . Platts , and regret our want of space for further quotation from a very sensible and well-written
discourse : €€ It is true we differ in opinion from the majority of our Christian brethren on some very important points . Not choosing to have a religion imposed upon us—not wishing to ifnbibe the sentiments of others without due examinatio n ^ n 01 " to believe by any system of human invention : we have ~ raaffi ® hed the Sciip * u *
Review. €€ Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame,'* — Pope.
REVIEW . €€ Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame , ' * — Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 604, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/36/
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