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care the qualifications which Div C . himself introduces into hts strictures . For instance , the latter says , " The Unitarian s of England may be considered as forming a political , as well as religious party /* The latter says ,
" Dr . Channing is pleased to represent the Unitarians of England as a political sect . " But this is not an exact report . The most that Dr . Channing ' s representation can fairly be made to convey , is , that the Unitarians of England are swayed in some
degree by political motives , in consequence of their peculiar relation to the state . Now , such a charge , I hum-My maintain , is neither " unfounded ' nor " contemptible . " Not " contemptible . " For , supposing you are , in enmp rpnec . te- a noYitical Rent , vet how
can you be blamed for it ? Indeed , yoit would scarcely deserve the respect of mankind , if you did not possess that quality . If the Unitarians of America were to be oppressed by their government , Dr . Channing would be the first to write and talk and act
against the oppression ; but at the same time , he would candidly allow that this new relation to the state rendered us a political as well as a religious sect , and especially , that it would endanger and injure the purity of our religious susceptibilities . Nor is the charge " unfounded , " if we
may believe the testimony of almost every traveller , both American and English , both Unitarian and Orthodox , who comes to our shores . Would Dr . Belsham please to state what proportion of English Unitarians he coolly thinks are Whigs , and what are Tories ?
Letter from Rammohun Roy to Dr . Rees . Let liberal members of the Church of England for one moment consider the weighty and unprejudiced testimony here offered by this great man , as to the light in which the Establis hment appears to the most cultivated foreign subjects of the realm .
We Americans were astonished at the sagacity with which Rammohun Hoy had seized upon the true theory ° 5 ° ur complicated political institu-^ > as shewn in his short letter to V - Ware . How guarded and . precisely correct also is he while
animadg in the letter before us upon l « e influence which the Kinif of En-S i"i possesses in his Church ! He v ^ l . xx . 1 i
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seems to ascribe to him no absolute , oriental power to make alterations therein , but at the same time 5 s fully aware of the paramount force of that patronage and influence which belong to him as Head of the Church .
Friendly Correspondence beticeen an Unitarian and a Calvinist . There is no writing so eloquent and beautiful as purely religious writing . The second paragraph of this letter enters into and fills the soul .
There is something to my mind awfully oracular in these short responses and notes of N . at the bottom of the page . They seem to come up from some gloomy shade below , where Calvin is dwelling , and obstinately holding fast his favourite dogmas . Yet it must be allowed that in some
of them our Calvinist is softened a little . He admits that a discriminative recommendation of vice and virtue by preaching is better than vociferous denunciations of eternal damnation . He grants that some distinction of character will be made in
the punishments of a future world . Dr . Griffin , one of our great orthodox leaders in America , denies this . He says that a line is drawn amid the inhabitants of this world . All on one side are irretrievably and indiscriminately damned . All on the other are received into unspeakable e-lorv . And
he urges on his hearers with all the force of voice and limb the intelligible and practicable direction to " step over the line / ' or they are lost . I am glad that I . at' length makes use of the proper distinctive term in this controversy , in speaking of Calvinists and Universalhts .
On the following remark of I . — " Upon the whole , I am pleased with the complexion of the times as respects tolerance and Christian charity "—N . observes , " All this is the refinement of unconverted man . "
Now this looks like a fictitious sarcasm put into his mouth by I ., and whispers somewhat of the identity of the two opponents . Review . On the Bible Society s Turkish Testament , Learned and
instructive . On Mrs . Jevomfs Funeral Sermon A picture of Christian gentleness genily drawn . Obituary . Funeral sermons appear to attract unusually large audi-
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Crilical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for November , 1824 . 657
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 657, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/17/
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