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Qr * Evam on tie Bigotry qf sfdam ' s ' * Religious Wtold BUplm / # 4 *? 585
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addition to these , recourse h » 3 lately hezn \ k ^ to & New Tramiation , of the N $ w * fi $ * ta& # b $ s in v ^ Iefc a k ^ mm has been attached to many passages which , ai 5 fidr |^ $ 9 former ^ aiilliafe lions , did nqj ; belong- to them , wki
notes ^ re ad <^ ed , im ivlrieh Unitarian views # f otir l ^ r ^' s person are iliustrated and # fe | id ^ 4 . Such pre the means which have J ^ n adopted with a vj ^^| p % ls | ipip ^^; '^( ii dangerous system , vvhicb , m Bishop Ifeber has tpell observed , * & $ as | p the utmost verge of Christianity : ' <* nd which has been
in so many instances a steppjpg-ston £ to sipple Deism , " Jfis account of ; tl ^ e General Baptists is thus concluded : — ' * To so low a condition is this class ( Anti-trinita rian ) no * v brought , * hat four of their congregations i $ JLondon were lately
united into one , and it is not li&ejy to exist fy ? any length of time . In the mean time , their General Assembl y * consisting of from fifteen to twenty ministers , is still held annually at Wm * ship Street , q ^ the Tuesday in the Whitswn- ^ ecik , wfceo one Wf the meiiir
bers preaches , and the aflfairs of their Society ^ re taken into consideration ; and we are ( old that they have thus mej ; for upwards of a ceiitury . Among their eminent men may be ranked
the names of Grale , Koot , Noble , Bulkley and Wiche , all of them , as far as I know , sound Triaitarians 5 and Foster , Burroughs and Robinsoii a whose orthodoxy does not appear ifi their works . *
Now , Mr . Sditor , where is the claim of the Rev ,. Robert Adam to candour atid iqipartiality ? Here ate palpable falsehoods and the grossest misrepresentations I $ he Arian $ may "be diminishing , im& it ^ is a vile insinuation that they $ ? e degenerating into
infidelity . . ^ he Sociniun Unitarians ( as h $ x& pleased to ternar theui ) have a gospel to jpitesicJu and good-tidings to proclaim in announcing forgiveness of sin upon repentance , and the xeisarroction < rf the dead , when those
who persevere in weJWloing , shall be graciously rewarded by the possession of eternal life ! It $ s most unfair to refer to Horsley u « d Magee , two swora enemies of rational iGhristiamty , for the vinllent abuse of which the former was raised # 0 aa Bnglish Bishopinc , and tl (^ latter ( devated to an Irish Archbishopric . " Verily , they have
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titeir reward 1 ^ With respect to Hie AntVtriuitarian General Baptists , tiieir crime is ^ bein ^ f few in number , forgetting that Christ had only at first twelve apostles , and their followers
met iq an upper room , though they were afterwards destined to multiply &nd enlarge their borders over ail the earthI ? Neither Gale , npx jFooty ikrtf Noble , nor Stilk ley , iior Wiche , were Trinitarians ; indeed , the latter , who was jthe friend tof Lardner , was a
zealous advocate for the simple humanky of Christ . Foster , Burroughs and Robinson , likewise were no t Trimtarians j in vain , then , do you look for ortliodoxy ih titor works . But vvhat is infinitely better , they were enlightened , conscientious rnen , asserdng " , tkrougli < € ^ ood report and through of
evil Bepojtf , " the doctri ^ ies tke iSew Testament , and exemplify ing the spirit of their great Master , whose declaration was , My kingdom is not of this vNwrld . ^ Indeed , Jesus Christ when on earth had a little flock , but it was to this little flock he gave the kingdom—not &o * he blind tod erring multitude * Cafchtxiics are more nu ^ -
merous than Protestants , and Christians are exceededhy Mahometass and Pagans , throug-hout the three quarters of the habitable globe , Neither ftumbera tkor success cau he pronounced legitimate tests of trittk . We read in the Revelation that two witnesses
only , and they were dad in sackclotli > prophesied in a very deg-ene rate state of the church against the enormous errors and the iniquitous practices of
an apostate world . As to the Improved Version of the Testament , whatever be its imperfections 9 it has been ably defended by the Rev . Thomas Belisham : and were there
no new renderings deemed necessary ^ it would have been a work of supererogatk > n . With jespect to the charge of Deism , brought by Dr . Magee
against The Monthly Repository , it curries on the face of it falsehood 5 but its Editor is fully competent to repej the imputation , should he not think proper to treat it with silent
contempt . The ifav , JEL Adam exults in the extinction of Warrington , Exeter and HfiMpkney Academies , bearing * ' iqv a time imposing names , but all annihilated , and the only one which they now have is that which was removed
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 585, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/9/
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