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translation : the members in general 6 f th&t Establishmtet wiU thetefoipe , it is to be fearfcd , long * remain itkig + noranee on this important subject ; but should th £ questions of your correspondent be repeated by Dissenting ministers of my description— - " How
few persons know how frequently the wotd Lord means Jehovah ; how can they know when it occurs , who do not read but otily hear bth&rs read f they must not be surprised if wfc repeat the question of the old courtier , —" Whose fault's that "—Reverend Gentlemen ? BENJ . FLQWER .
P . SL Might it not be beneficial to Bearers in general were their ministers occasionally to remind them that the words printed in their Bibles iti italics , are not in the original , but were inserted by our translators , in order to render the sense more obvious ,
although in some instances they weaken the force of the original , and in matters of controversy little stress is to b 6 laid on them .
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Fnorne , -Yorkshire . Sir , Feb . 18 , 1824 . BEING in the habit of attending a weekly-evening meeting here , partly for the purpose of discussing any subject proposed the week before , the last we had was Luke xvL 19 , to
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Sm , March 8 , 1824 . IT may be thought a degree of presumption in an obscure individual , to censure one whose Unitarian 2 eal and useful writings have procured her general respect amongst our
body ; nevertheless , I cannot forbear expressing the sentiments with which I read Mrs . Hughes ' s Protest , in your last Number , ( p . 97 , ) against the paper of Philadelphia . Into the opinions advanced by that writer , I wish not to
enter : your giving them a place in the Repository affords a presumption that you considered them a fair subject of discussion . They are , however , expressed with a modesty and seriousness , and breathe a spirit of
benevolence , calculated , I should think , to conciliate the ingenuous mind ; and which , to say nothing of the names of Priestley and Hartley , whom the writer calls to his aid , might have protected him from the stigma of ' * insignificance and absurdity /*
How , after reading- the third paragraph of Philadelphia , Mrs . H . can find any indication of " utf ; er indifference with respect to Scripture authority , " I cannot conceive , tje there expressly says , "No speculation , as to the termination of pain with the present life , coufd be safely enter-
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a protested reviler ot Unristianity r Throughout the paper , I can observe no disposition to receive the deductions of philosophical investigation , except so far as they accord with the declarations of revelation . As I
betained by ^ J ^ lirisfiaa philosopher , ui& less it em l $ && ^ to be ebtoist € at ivith tl ^ ose passages of Scripture which have relation to * the state of mankind after death /* Does this warrant Mrs * Hughes in placing him on a par witji
lieve that all such investigation will promote the ultimate discovery of truth , and that a comparison of its result with the Sacred Writings , will , in the end , most firmly establish their truth , by making them better understood , I view with horror every attempt to put down inquiry by assertion and invective . Such jneans 1
deem peculiarly unbecoming in ; tb& zealous professor of Unitariaiiism , which owes its progress to the extrication of reason from the trammels of authority , and the free exercise of
investigation . Had Mrs . Hughes fairly control verted the sentiments advanced by Philadelphus , none could gainsay : bat the dogmatism with which she denounces
the erroneousness of his views , is unworthy alike of a lady and a Christian . Her concluding paragraph is so illogical and inapplicable , that I am surprised it should proceed from her
pen . Perhaps I may do wrong in reflecting upon so respectable a person , under an anonymous signature r but , in truth , my name would add little weight to these observations . Moreover , I will confess that I should rather
shrink from the odium of publicly censuring one so much looked up to . If I know my motive in thus writing , it is not to give needless pain , otto gratify a censorious temper , but to maintain the free expression of opinion and unrestrained discussion—the
surest supports of knowledge and of virtue . VINDEX .
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140 On Mrs * , Hughes * $ Strictures on PhUadelpfnts
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/12/
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