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are at present able to contribute only a particular sum to their favourite subdivided pursuit ? You must either do great things after this new proposed movement , or the whole Unitarian interest will be likely to sink in
character and importance . It will be a critical effort . Will not the objects in view be too multifarious and unwieldy for one body ? There must be Sub-committees—but it is impertinent for me to be recommending such things .
Letter from Dr . Doyle * To say nothing of a little dimness in the general outline of this writer ' positions , his plan seetns to me to be absolutely crazy . G . B . IF . on Dr . Priestley ' s Opinions , has pursued a very neat , and I imagine , successful argument .
Mrs . Hughes on Unitarian Education . I agree with these suggestions . I never think the better of a person , who savs that he teaches his children no religious opinions . Remarks on Matt . xix . 28- Good . Dr . Hartley ' s Letter to his Sister . This letter must have been written
not long after the author ' s correspondence with Dr . Priestley alluded to in p . 389 . If it were written before that correspondence , the argument of G . B . W . will want support , since in that case Hartley must have already entertained the sentiments which yet Priestley says , he " made appear to Hartley ' s satisfaction . " It would be
nearly decisive of their question , if the disputants on this subject in the Repository could ascertain the date of the letter . Judge Hale , Sec . I like this correspondent ' s modification of the maxim JJe mortuis . The original form of it savours of superstition .
Correspondence between an Unitarian and a Calvinist . This is the most serious , impassioned , yet argumentative letter that
the Unitarian has thus far written . His words , sentiments , and paragraphs flow on in a strain that reminds one of the simple entvainante eloquence of Rousseau .
I am sorry to meet with a puerile argument in a series of such masterly reasoning ; yet I cannot otherwise regard the writer ' s attempt to prove that evil persons in the future state ought to be considered children of
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men , because Abraham called Dives by the appellation child ! The whole passage seems like a word-catching punning prolusion , introduced to overthrow the reader ' s gravity , rather than strengthen his conviction . I preten d
not to instruct this writer in a point of criticism ; and therefore presume he must only have forgotten for a moment that children of men is a Hebraism , equivalent simply to ? nen . It would be useless to urge other critical considerations which exist to the same
purpose . Ought he not to have stopped an instant near the beginning of his letter , where he maintains that ' those only shall be saved who do the will of the Father / ' and have explained how
he regards the proposition quoted as consistent with his general belief on the subject ? What , too , correspondently with the rest of the letter , does he mean near the close by saying that he is far from being confident as to his final preservation ?
Mr . Le Grice on Consistency . This writer incorrectly compares an Unitarian ' s taking the sacrament to " perjury . " The perjurer tells not the world of his mental reservation , nor protests every where aloud against the tyranny which compels him to swear . If he did , his oath would not be taken .
So that our reasoner commits the illogical fault of borrowing an illustration from an unanalogous , or rather , a morally impossible case . " To say that Unitarians may he members of ourChurch , seems a strange
assertion /* I can tell you of a fact still stranger . It is , that your Church and Government set up claims which compel honourable and high-minded men to torture themselves into a specious , distressing , and , alas ! assailable code of ethics .
" What need of the repeal of any test V What need of any test ? ' * If such a system were to prevail , we should trust no one , we should respect no one . " Believe it not . It would be the very thing aimed at by
the law—a feigned outward consent . All things would go on so quietly , so smoothly . The Church would bear such unresisting sway . You do not make yourselves very anxious and prying concerning the sincerity of more than suspected unbelievers . " Hooper and Ridley might with
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390 Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for July , 1824
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/6/
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