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' -Siifr MONO the numerous causes of _ xjL . contention that occur , it is pleasing to find a subject in which opposing parties may unite . This presents itself m various instances when public
charitable institutions are to be promoted ; but it rarely happens when speculative opinions are to be discussed . There does , however , one now offer itself in which the Trinitarian and the
Unitarian may meet on the same ground , and each may refer to an authority both admit to demand their chief attention—the word of God . May the arguments of both be conducted in the spirit of love , and truth will be
the result . I refer to a sermon just published by the learned G . Stanley Faber , at the last anniversary of the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews . It is entitled , " The Conversion of the Jews to
the Faith of Christ , the true Medium of the Conversion of the Gentile World . " The introduction is historical and ingenious , and the whole of the discourse judicious and argumentative . But the point for which Mr . Faber contends is , " That whatever
partial success may attend missionary exertions in regard to Individual Pagans and Mohammedans , the Gentiles \ idll never be converted nationally and upon a large scale , until the Jews shall have been first converted ; and the ground of this very important position is , That the converted Jews are
destined in the unsearchable wisdom of God , to be the sole , finally successful missionaries to the Gentile world . " This , Mr . Editor , involves some important inquiries . Are the Jews to be converted to Christianity by first
giving up the belief of the Unity of the Divine Nature ; or are they to retain that distinctive mark , that cause of separation from other nations , the teaching- that the Lord is one Lord , and besides him there is no other God ?
If they are to continue in the belief of their Scriptures , they must reject the doctrine of the Trinity ; if they are to give up their Scriptures , why did Jesus command the Jews whom
he addressed , to search their Scriptures , declaring they testified of him ? These are inquiries which the Unitarian , and those who are generally his opponents , may make without exciting any bitterness 5 and . as the learned aiu
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tftor of the s ^ rnion rejects ' thtf spiritu alizing of prophecy , whic ^ lie ealh <* mischievous humour , ther * e is additional motive for a Candid and biblical investigation of the best mode of converting the Heathen world to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus . I shall content myself with proposing the subject to your numerous readers . L . E ,
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Chtchester 9 Sir , May 3 , 1822 . FAS est ab hoste doceri : I would not , however , apply the term hoste in a malignant sense to those who dissent from the Unitarian creed :
but a § these worthy persons are hostile to it , if there can be drawn from their own works any thing that will take from their taunts a portion of their edge , I may , as an Unitarian , be allowed the motto , while I am making the attempt of deriving this solace from their publications .
Unitarians are sometimes described as being worse than Atheists or Infidels . Now , to justify this language in any degree , surely the tenet they deny ought to be so far beyond contradiction , as to brand them with
determined perverseness in rejecting it : bo far from this being Jlie case with the doctrine of the Trinity , Dr . P . Smith , in his Sermon on the worship of Christ , states this doctrine to be the result of a cautious induction
from the whole testimony of the Scriptures . A tenet which requires a cautious induction for its discovery , has very different claims on our regard to one which is clearly and obviously declared . It is not every one who has either time or ability to make this cautious induction : and it must be a
little too severe to brand people as infidels , who may happen to miss one of the links which compose this induction or lead to it ; and who thereby , notwithstanding all their caution , fail in arriving at the conclusion . While , thien , the unity of the Divine Being is
acknowledged by Trinitarians themselves to be clearly revealed in every page of Scripture , a Trinity in Unity can only be discovered by a cautious induction ; the one tenet may , therefore , be adopted to the rejection oi the other , without anv perversity ot
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4 JF& Mr . Fader ' s Sermon Strike ( f& nv ^ rsfon oP * Fews
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 476, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/20/
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