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REVIEW. « Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame."—Pope
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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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Aut . I . — T % e Unitarian Christian ' s Apology for Seceding ^ from the Communion and Worship of Trinitarian Churches . A Discourse , of trJiich the Substance was delivered in Lciciris ' -Mead Chapel , Bristol ,
on the 6 th of January , 1822 . By S . C . Fripp , B . A ., late of Queen ' s College , Cambridge . With Notes , and an Appendix . 8 vo . pp . 84 . Bristol , printed and sold by Parsons and Browne , and sold by Hunter , London . Is . 6 d .
MR . FRIPP's secession from the Established Church was announced in our Number for January , ( p . 63 , ) and the above is the title of the sermon then described as in preparation for the press . The peculiarity of the case out of which it arises will ,
no doubt , procure it celebrity , ot which it is indeed deserving ; for , though it pretends to no originality or display of eloquence or learning , it has the merit ( a much higher merit ) of being the artless effusion of a mind deeplv intent upon Divine truth , and
thoroughly imbued with the Evangelical spirit of disinterestedness , purity , frankness and candour . Uprightness of principle and ingenuousness of character are always venerable and lovely
in the profession of religion they are pre-eminently entitled to esteem and admiration ; and they who are influenced by these sentiments will receive Mr . Fripp \ s " good confession" with Christian affection and gratitude . , _ n
I his respectable clergyman thus describes the course of his theological inquiries : Respecting the origin and progress of his present religious sentiments , the narrow limits of a Preface will onlallow of
y us now adverting to the fact , that they have not been taken up lightly or inconsiderately ; that , on the contrary , so long as four years ago , a considerable impression was made on his mind , by the perusal
° * Dr . Carpenter ' s Letter to the Editor of l Bristol Mirror , written in reference tf ) bother letter of a most interesting nature , the production of an excellent Person , who not long before had relinquished the doctrines of Unitarianisin .
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From the perusal of that letter , the Writer of these lines arose , with a persuasion that a « Socinian' might be a good man , though his doctrines were decidedly erroneous ; and this persuasion Was strengthened , and some doubts as to the
purity of the orthodox system of theology arose in his mind , upon comparing the general spirit of an able and eloquent defence ( just then published ) of the Caivinistic doctrines , by the Rev . E . Vaughan , with the spirit of Dr . C . ' s Letter . The consideration of the much-controverted
topic of baptismal regeneration , and the possibility that the author might , sooner or later , be called upon to subscribe his solemn and e < v animo assent and consent to all and every thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer ; together with some doubts as to the generally-received meaning of certain texts of Scripture ; all impelled him to devote a considerable time and attention to the serious
examination of the Unitarian controversy . The result will be found in the following pages /*—Pref . i . ii . To a person coming for the first time to the Unitarian controversy , nothing will appear so strange as the unmeasured abuse that is heaped by
polemics of all other denominations upon the Unitarians . This fact seems to have deeply impressed Mr . Fripp ' s mind , and to have been one of the secondary causes of his conversion . He begins his Discourse with reciting
some of the maledictions upon " the sect every where spoken against , " that have proceeded from the pens and lips of dignified and mitred churchmen ; and very naturally and sensibly remarks . b j& -y
^* j m ^ 1 m ^ ^ b ^ I m " Many reflections necessarily crowd into the mind at this melancholy recital 1 call it melancholy ;—for is it not truly so , that the professed disciples of Him
who hath taught us a new commandment of universal love , should so far forget themselves , and be so little solicitous to imitate the example and to imbibe the spirit of their great Lord and Master ? When did He give these defenders of the
orthodox faith a commission to refuse the name and ( as far as this is in their power ) the privileges of Christians to those who equally with themselves believe in ' One God , and in one Mediator between God and men , the man Christ Jesus ? ' When
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/45/
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