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publication shaws us that they were begun , and we cunnot doubt of the success of the experiment .
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Umtarianism , which is as rational as It is scriptural , and as perfectly suitable to man as it is honourable to God , aud to bis Christ . If Trinitarianism exhibits the marks of antichrist mentioned iu the
apostolic writings , and be included in the grand apostacy foretold in ttie New Testament , and Unitarian ism bears none of those marks , and cannot be traced as either that apostacy , or any . part of it , which is what 1 have aimed to shew , it cannot remain questionable which of the two systems is the true doctrine of Christ . "— Pp . 22 , 23 ,
The second tract is a sequel to the first . The author does not follow those that interpret the " Man of Sin" of his Holiness at Rome . * The titles ' man of sin / and ' son of perdition / " ( he says , p . 8 , ) " are not designed to characterize any * particular man , or
church , or class or description of men , but are forms of expression used to personify the corrupt and destructive system of false doctrine , bad principles , superstitious practices , delusion and infatuation , religious domination , prostration of the understanding , and
mental and moral debasement , which has for ages borne the venerated name of Christianity , and which the spirit of prophecy anticipated as existing arid prevailing during the continuance of the grand apostacy predicted by
the Apostle PauL" He explains the hindrance to which the Apostle refers , in the way of the man of sin , as being not , according to > the majority of commentators , Rome Pagan , but the apostolic ministry , supported by miraculous powers .
The third tract is on a fruitful subject . The author treats it in the free spirit of a Nonconformist . He i ; $ careful to distinguish between priesthood and the Christian ministry .
" It does not appear that any precise form of church order , government and discipline was given by Jesus Christ ; for we find no precise form laid down in the New Testament ; but the great principles which he taught , and the maxims he inculcated , are a sufficient foundation for Christians to build upon , and rule for
them to proceed by , in > all ages , if they be careful to do everything in his spirit , and never to depart from his precepts . The wants of mankind , and the edification" of the church , rendered the ordinary Christian ministry essentially neicessary at first , and its evident utility would lead to its continuance . So long as the wants cyf men render religious and moral instruc-
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102 Review . —Wright * s Tracts , on Antichrist and Priest or aft .
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Art . IV . —Antichrist Detected among Reputed Orthodox Christians * In a Series of Essays . By Richard Wright . 8 vo . pp . 24 . Ad . Art . V . — Thoughts on Paul ' s Man of Sin ; or , the Great Apostacy from the Christian Name , described 1 Thess . ii . 3—12 . By the Same . 8 vo . pp . 20 . 4 d .
Art . VI . — The Christian Ministry Defended , and Priestcraft Exploded * By the Same . 8 vo . pp . 86 . Is . 6 rf . —All printed and sold by F . B . Wright , Liverpool ; and sold by Eaton and 0 . Fox and Co ., London . 1824 .
i ^ HESE tracts appeared succes-JL sive numbers of The Christian Reflector , a periodical publication at Liverpool , and are now made up for wider distribution , with separate
titlepages , and , in the case of tlie last , a Preface . They are in the author ' s usual unpretending manner , and are well adapted for such readers as have not access to more bulky and elaborate works .
The title of the first pamphlet shews where Mr . Wright finds " Antichrist /' He contends that the portentous name cannot be applied to his own denomination .
" Unitarianisra is not only , no where in the New Testament predicted as a departure from the faith , no where mentioned'as included in the apostacy which it was foretold would take place under the Christian name ; it is also undeniable that the apostate church , in which the most prominent of the predictions referred to have beeu verified , has always been Trinitarian , and Unitarians have never been allowed within its pale . —Trinitarianism has all along been the doctrine of that church which Protestants have denominated the mother of harlots , and of the apostate churches , her daughters , it is found in all their creeds , and
is identical with the predicted apostacy . The marks of antichrist , as stated by the apostle , have ever been found associated with the other great and acknowledged ' corruptions of Christianity . It cannot be pretended that the name mystery , which stands foremost in the titles of the mother of harlots ^ and which is so strikingly appropriate to reputed orthodoxy , can in any way be applicable to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1825, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2533/page/38/
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