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$ 05 Unity of the Godhead assented .
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of their griefe on bur shoulders \ theyj atfe not easy aM happy while weare Stiffening- for them . The instaii ^ e # dd deed by your correspondent off ** children being punished ( and 1 & * t before they have done either good or evil )
for the sins of their parents /* U still less to the point ; for do t | ie pains of the children in any dfegr $ e Ifefcseii thos § of their parents ? Do tiiey not rather increase them ? I see ho thing jn eit&er of ftieife cases , or it ! any which my fc ^ etJeifcCe of human stifferipg farnishes me with ^ jil the slightest degree resembling vicarious punishment . $ < & . ** Is not tlie whole animal
creation , though innocent of moral ^ uilt , made subject to pain and death ? Yes—ara ^ as was Jjefbre Sa ^ far reasons inscrutable to tis . ' - I )|§ t why / we should , because one appointment does not coincide v % tfc our ideas ot |^|| ice , believe in another which appears infinitely more unjust , and even absurd ,
I own I cannot see . Much might be said in explication of the reasons why the animal creation are made stibject to pain and dearth ; but this is not to our purpose . I would oaly mst ask ,
wliat connexion their suffering has v \ ith vicarious punishment , or yrhai resemblance to it ; or M ^ ieth ^ r any one can conceive that portion of evil to be inflicted for toy purposes o £ redemption ? <
Your correspondent takes it ibr granted that the Orthodox doctrine of Atonement is ** certainly the most agreeable to the language of scriptare . ' * Unitarians in general do not think so . They believe that if the
iriind were divested of all prejudice , nothing ceuld appear farther from the lajiguage , as well as the tenor of scripture , than this mysterious
doctrine , and would easily account for the use of all the language which now appears to the Orthodox to inculcate ittpy remembering the custom of the writers of the Epistles to allude to Jewish ceremonies and institutions ;
among others , to the very striking institution of Jewish sacrifices , In the Gospels tbere is nothing whatever which can be twisted to the meaning affixed to certain passages of the Epistles .
^ ^^^ ^^^' % doctrine must be acknowledged to be attended with difficulties verjr harassing to the mind anxious in tine filearch of truth ; and as I know
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by expenetice ^ the un ^ siii es ^ of ^ btib t on snbjects t > f stfcK inrpoftaik ^ , J ^ motet heartily vvish thcti ; E& < tisyi <; tiriay sboii repose in the perfect cdnifictiofi 1
thsit ht § Saviour died , hot trtappease wrath , or to Temovie from the guilty the punishiiaient denouiiee 4 against their sins by Hitn # h 6 canhot lie ^ Uut to nidtice ** ttie stnriei * to forsake
hfs way ; and the unrighteous rn ^ n hi ^ thit > 1 ights /* l > y setting the seal of bi ^ Mood to that new and better cove ^ - nsait whicli invites the transgressor bapk to the < tr Lord who will have mercy on him , to tfefj Qod who \ Vili abundantly pardon . * » H . M ,
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Srft , IN your number for FebiHiary last , ( pp . 88 y & e ^ , ) containing Correspondence on a Charge of Heresy against Sir Rdse Pricfe , Bart . ^ who has ad opted Unitarian doctrines , and is said to have asserted that hte kno \ W it to be to
a feict ^ * thati wi % jre ap ^ the Trimty , IH ^ king -i s of i&e « ame ^ e » - timents ^ s j ^ i ^^ Up yott li ^ e subjoined jpartW a l&fier ^ gtied O , wltich appeared in the Path and Cheltenham Gazette , of the 27 th of January , th ^ writer of vsrtiiiih S € Qfs > "he can easily conceive it to be true , and that a of
lar ^ e proportion hfe Majesty ^ subjects are Delievera in the Unity of the Godhead . ^ Little did the writer of that letter expect to he so fully borne out in his conjecture , or that it would be allowed in so extensive a degree as is ^ sinc e admitted bj the venerable Archdeacon of Bath , in his late Charge to the Clergy of the Deanery of
Bedminster . The Archdeacon there say ^ , speaking of Unitariaas , that the n ^ me is ** afalse distinction /* and , repeait * - ing the expression , assigns as a reason for it , that " the Unity of the < Godhead ' * is hold ^ h by himself and his reverend brethren as a vital principle in their fetith .
With due deference to Dr . Moysey , I beg leave to say , that I do not know a fitter name than Urritari&ns for those persons who believe there is only One God , of a more proper distinction
between them and those who profess the doctrine of a Trinity . Contemplating thia subject in connexion with royalty , ah argument occurs , which may have had some weight in the royal mind , and which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 600, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/24/
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