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    will w obdiuteficy of heart being- manifested . , But , without having further ta do with Dr . Smith , I would turn the attention of your readers to the "Memoirs of the Rev . H * Martyn , " a work which appears to me , to " tell a little out of school /'

    To taunt Unitarians , they are some- i times asked , " Where are your converts ? " Which question is generally accompanied with an insinuation , that , <

    were their opinions consonant with Christianity , numerous converts would attest their validity . This test of truth is not quite infallible , as appears from these Memoirs of the late Rev . ]

    Henry Martyn , who is said by his o biographer , Mr . Sargent , to have C ' * vindicated the truths of Christianity J in the very heart and centre of the a Mahometan empire . " After which assertion , " if , " says Mr . S ., € C sue-

    cess be demanded , it is replied , that this is not the inquiry with Him ' of whom are all things / With Him , the question is this— what has been aimed at , what has been intended in singleness of heart . '" I cordially agree with Mr . S . in this remark , and while

    I should not consider the little success which his friend Mr . Martyo met with as any ground for supposing that he was inactive in his missionary undertaking , or as casting any reproach upon the cause he espoused , I claim the same allowance for Unitarians and

    their cause , many of whom have planted it , and many have watered it in singleness of heart , leaving the success in the hands of Him who alone can give the increase . Unitarians are sometimes taunted

    with want of feeling in religious matters ; they are too cold , and have too little of fervour in the exhibition of their sentiments . Mr . Sargent , for our comfort , observes that , from the details gioea by Mr . Martyn of the fast of Ramazan , * ' we plainly discover

    that a love for particular popular preachers , a fiery zeal in religion , a vehement excitation of the animal feelings , us ivetl § & rigid austerities , are false eriteniom of genuine piety ; for

    we see all . ' Jikeae itt their full perfection amongst the real follotvers of the Crescents , as well as « unong the pretended disciples of the-. Cko&s . " " / and my E&tk&r are one , " said

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    Jesus ; and these words # re brought forward with great parade t < r prove the divinity of Christ . Unitarians consider the words as indicating only oneness in design and object ; and thus has the orthodox Mr . Martyn

    : \ used them - " I y for , having been grieved at a distich repeated to him by Mirza Seid Aliy on account of the blasphemy which he supposed it contained , anil being asked by his companion the cause of his grief , he replied , could not endure existence if Jesus was not glorified ; it is hecause / amone with

    Christ , that I am thus dreadfully wounded . " Mr , M . thus acknowledges that he ^ imperfect as he would own himself to be , was one with Christ : was it then surprising that Jesus should say " I and my Father are one" P

    s < The doctrine of the Atonement seems not to have beien understood by Mr . Martyn ' s associates , which was not surprising , as his auditors

    chiefly objected to Christianity on account of the divinity of Christ * But he was once asked , How he was so assured of salvation as he had represented : how did he know that he

    had experienced the second birth ? " Because , " said Mr . Martyn , " we have the spirit of the Father ; what he wishes we wish , what he hates we hate , and , therefore , though sin might remain , he was assured that it should

    not regain dominion , and that he should never come into condemnation , but was accepted in the Beloved . " Here is comfort for the Unitarians ; for if assurance of salvation is gained by " liking what the Father likes , and by

    hating what the Father hates , " many among them have been born again ; and instead of being , as they are sometimes represented , in the gall of bitterness , they are participators ; of the new birth .

    I shall refer , Mr . Editor , to but one passage more . " In the midst of a Mahometan conclave , " says Mr . Sargent , * ' Mr , Martyu proclaimed and maintained that prime and fundamental article of true religion , the divinity

    of the Son of God . " Anci ^ controversy having taken place * . Mi ? * Martyn was asked , " If Christ had ever called himself God ; was he the Creator , or a creature ? " Mr , TSl . says , " I replied , 4 THE ClUSATOR ; ' * th $ Molfahn looh-

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    Orthodox Concession * : Memoirs of . the Mite Ret :. H . Martyn . tfffl

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/21/