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ffcr ourselves ; we have formed sentiments dear tons as our lires ^ --dear to us as our very souls .. Sentiments of which we are not ashamed , an < I for which , in the spirit of meekness and charity , we will earnestly contend .
"We are not Deists- —we are not Infidels—we are not unbelievers in Divine revelation—we do not slight the Scriptures , nor despise God ' s revelation of grace—we do not debase our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ . We are serious and firm believers in God and in Christ- — we believe that the Scriptures contain the
word of God , the revelations he has made to mankind in the different ages of the world—we believe the prophets and apostles were inspired of heaven in different measures and degrees , but superior to them all , was Jesus Christ our Lord ; in whoni God dwelt—in whom he wrought —by whom he spoke , and made known
his truth and grace to mankind m an especial , extraordinary : and supernatural way and manner . We believe that God has set his seal to the mission of Jesus , and proclaimed him by a voice from heaven , saying—* This is my beloved Son , in whom I am well pleased : hear ye him * In him we believe— -of him we learn—him
we follow—hini we obey . We aspire-to be conformed to his image here , that we may share in his glory hereafter . " We believe that Christ was born , Hved , died , rose again , and ascended on high , for us men and for our salvation ; uot indeed to reconcile God to man , as some have absurdly taught , but to reconcile man to God . We believe that Christ
was a sacrifice for us ; not by becoming our substitute , and suffering in our stead , but by devoting hiin&elf in the cause of truth and righteousness , and by sealing the covenant of grace and the promise of pardon by his blood . We believe that he is the Saviour of sinners ; not by being
holy and righteous in their stead , but by leading them by the divine and heavenly motives of his gospel to true repentance , holiness and the j > ractice of all righteousness ; thus becoming —* The author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him *
'We glory in the cross of Christ—we rejoice that he has broken down the middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile , so making peace by the blood of his cross : that he has introduced a new
and living way , a glorious dispensation , which has for its object the salvation of the whole human race . We behold him aa * The Lamb of God ; that , by the influence of his life , sufferings , death and resurrection , his doctrines , . precepts and example , on the minds Vand hearts of *** $% ' Jakah away Mt > sin of the HmMtS
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We maintain that our salvation by Christ is not a physical , but a moral a&lv&tiim ? - * -Pp . 4 , Si 5 The publication of this Sermon appears to have originated in the mind of the Rev . Evan Herbert , the recent pastor of a small congregation of , Calvinistic Baptists at Warwick , tfa $ 4 g Antidote , " as a sovereign , specific for the cure and eradication of .
Unitarianism , at thepaoderate price of ** two pence , or twelve shillings the hundred . ** A more vulgar or illiterate production we never remember to have been amused with . Its execution has to its pretensions much the same relation as
a barn tragedy to a low comedy ; and we suspect that the elders of his congregation offered up their supplications for a speedy deliverance from this unwelcome friend , which , indeed , speedily followed . The pages which compose his manifesto are a mere tesselated
collection of texts , gleaned from the margins of old folio Bibles , and set in a little of his original composition , of which the following illustration of the doctrine of original sin is a fair sample ¦<— " There have been very pernicious associations in all periods of time , an
irrefragable proof of what this writer ( Mr . Irlatt ) contradicts , namely , that * the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked / or original sin ; such was the Gunpowder Plat , the attempt to restore the Stuart family , &c . "—P .. 1 .
1 he Laureate himself could not have given us in Wat Tyler a more ingenious detection of the causes of political appstacy . Mr . Evan Herbert witkhecoining ingenuousness confesses his
erudition and ignorance : " As to Calvinism , if I have imbibed any of the sentiments of that great man of God , it is not from his writings ; for I never read a page of them ; but by analyzing the Greek Testament . "—P . 9 .
But however this rnay be , ( and Dr . Johnson said he had known many old women who knew Greek s thougli but few who were acquainted ^ vitu their vernacular tongue , ) it is clear that Mr . , Herbert ' s forte is not philology . And we would recommend him to a perusal
of the Diversions of Purley , where he may discover that an adverb and verb oaay have the same sound , and yet , difter lu their number of letters :, as for example , iu tlie sentence , p . . 4 ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 605, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/37/
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