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    become the instrument of ambition and tyranny , and be subjected to other inconveniences ; but I question if they may not be more than compensated by the order * beauty and

    momentum infused by it into the life of social religion . Have not * many young Unitarian preachers experienced a feeling of desolation from the solitary and unleaning- bravery with which they have been compelled to throw themselves on the current of

    their duties } They want some im » - mediate , fixed and definite standard of ecclesiastical authority to refer to in doubtful cases ; some system of rules as the channel of their general

    exertions ; some sympathy and even controul from an uniform community . Wh at * mighty effects were produced l > y the monastic orders ! Do we sup * pose that the Reformation has eradicated from the human breast the e&-ft

    prit ^ du corps Proud and mistaken Unitarians 1 It still survives , and operates &s t > ne Of the most effectual engine that play frbrii every quarter tm yout eatiae . I felt & kind of envy towards the ydufeg Irish Pfe 3 bVt # ian , when I came tQ thfc following

    sentence in the description of the S y * nod ' s discipline , &c .: * ' He is now < ienominated a probationer * and is tinder the controul and direction of Ah Pf 4 $ byterp" I almost longed to be bound by the same trammels . My iinaginatiop was captivated by the humbleness and meekness of the si *

    tuation . I thought to myself how f ood , how obedient , how Presbyterian would be * if 1 were the servant of such a master , or ^ to soften the terms , the meinber of such a community , which might be rendered as democratical in its polity as is

    consistent with a proper exercise of re * gular government . Doubtless such a relation might contribute much to one ' s happiness * virtufe * and intfelfcc * tual advancement . Will a eottespon * $ ent of the Repository present the considerations that belong to the opposite side of the question I

    I am uncertain whether the fbl * lowing phraseology iix note , p . 706 ^ be pure English , " Georg 6 I . who * it is reported ; , should say , ' > &c . Al- > though iu some parts of America it ^ s used in common conversatio n , yet I believe it ia avoided by the most

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    careful speakfer « > and I never t ! saw it in print . 4 Bigotry of the Home Mimm&x ,, Magnmne . A just bufc tnild ren&& strancea Mr . Frend on thte British Critic * The re in arks on the ierm Monotheism ai * e a most ingenious retort . Mr , Frend ' s proposal ^ tov ^ ards the close of his communication , seems

    nearly impracticable , because , although the propositions , On which he recommends disdusgian , J ) osseas the utmost troth , interest and importance , yet they are precisely Such as our brethren of other denominations deem fundamentally erroneous in the outset * and would therefore decline

    discussing altogether . Can you get a circle of English courtiers to assera ^ ble with a knot of rank republicans , and discuss the merits of detnocratical government ? £ > r . Gale a Trinitaridn . Dr *

    Evans ' s assertion may y £ t appear jus * tinable , notwithstanding these proofs to the contrary , during one period of Gale ' s life » Friendly Gorrespvtidewde between dti Unitatiah dnd a Caivftif&t :

    The first letter here is tflily y Stib ^ lime composition . Yet why write sublimely , or argue ingeniously ? If the following propositions of the Cal ± vinist be correct ^ this whole correspondence is one of the roost

    nugatory things in the world : " You arid t are all blind by natnre . The Lord * I trust , will give you sight and me too * " Probably if his correspondent agreed in speculation with him , the Calvinist would think that time had

    come . Yet he appears to itie very inconsistent in holding so long art argument with liinb . H £ expects from an unawakened Universalist all the docility and reasonableness of an

    awakened Calviaisfc * He s&yo , that pride cannot consist in ali awakened Calvinist , But cannot something be ? y like pride consist in him , so m to deceive and provoke the uiidiscefningf wortd i In i * eply to one of the afguments of the Universalist , the ( Jafcin ~>

    ist says ^ " Time will shew : we shttll see how it will be * " Would he Jjter-J unit his opponent to use suclir aoc argu « ietit ? One of these notes , litOW- ^ eveiv contaias > I think , a very happy and Unanswerable retort * The t ? nii

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    ^ - ""' ' a "ij& ^ W ^ W&X 6 Critical Symfptis qf the Monthly Repository for I > e&en&Sr > \ S 2 ik ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/6/