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c ^ $ na $ 9 $ * & f ^ f&tfenaltte int " qthest % tmiid $ faw ite wperfititiw + K ope of his reasons is , that * ' i « g $# @ml it is calculated to impress men ' s naiads with superstit ion ** notymS i especially in regfutt to the validity and sacred * ness of the clerical office and character . " How'H h unfair to manufacture
a great &kow of arguments in thia way , and not to keep one ' s promises . As to the slno-Je argument itself , which the writer has thus made two of , I am persuaded lie would abandon it altogether , if he could witness the ex ^ eltefrt effects prpducicd by
ordination serv&es m New England , where they are still kept up by an universal spirit and interest that have never heea surpassed . There , at the clo ^ e of two centuries , no superstitions notior > s whatever are as yet attacked to
tb *> ceremony . It } $ m \ y regarded as a beautiful , iroprt&sire ainUn $ truetive iorcu , attaching the people to our common Christianity , and inspiring tlwn with tender and solemn sentijneiUs wi ^ h respect no the pastoral relation .
I cannot believe that Christ has " abolished" whatever i $ lovely . JJe ? sides , there is , in this same word " abolished , " as applied to the authority of Christ over ancient foiros and
ceremonies , so met king illusive , to which , if we do not carefully attend , we shall be seducqd to part witli aome valuable portion of our Christian & herty , 1 $ ought to be recollected , that ill abolishing the obligation and necessity of ancient positive ordir nances , Christ was ver y ftir from entirely prohibiting tbefn . This
distinction n > ust be saepeclly observed , Jeswp had no authority ftnd ^ o wis h to deprive rn&aof perfect liberty in things innocent . If he had , Ws religion would have been as oppressive aa the Mosaic itself . Far it is as irksome
to the human mjnd to J > e r £$ trvined from a ^ tin ^ r as it chooses jtlirougb the wide range «> f jeircumstances ia which God Almighty has set it down , as to be competed to pursue a particular ^ i ul gpegi . fic £ QBr 8 e . ** Circuincision unci
js not lHi *^ , i ^ nd reuinci ^ ion ia uothiog . * ' 1 ujight quote and write more to this purpose , but let the reader continue to think upon it , and he will , I am persuaded , soon arrive at similar conclusions . In fine , there is no dan-
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g # r that ordiiKiti !> fT * * mmg JJlutWians will l ^> ever ^ hu ^ ed , asiang a& Unil ^ rianUm eigttifies a b 4 d anil independent adherente ' to the printiples pf truth . When it meaii * ^ ay thing < eJse , wlpen it adopts a sjarish Interior reH * gioq , i % is possible that external cerer
monies nmy exert a corrupting influentie . Let us not be for teanu ^ up every things branch , root and fibre . Ancient systcin ^ w ore oot d // poisonous . Unilariwi ^ ni cannot m ak e men at once angels . Let us beware of thQ error of the Quakers . Caa " B « ris Coloaus" endure the sound of an
organ i On , the Rev . John Baker's Prayer Booh . Yes , the " Immortal God /* and the " Father ' s Co-eternal Son ^ are expressions not to be twisted by any mental , secret ingenuity ioto 3 compatibility with Jesus dying on the
cross . On a Canon of Criticism relating tQ the Greek Article . The alternative which this acute critic adopts is certainly the most inoffensive of either . He might even have softened and rendered hU supposition less
exceptionable still , by ascribing to the Apostle merely an idiomatical impropriety , rather than an tmgmmm&tkftl mode of expression ; for 1 think the peculiarity ju question comes rather under the former than the latter species of error . In this manner , then , the Greek
canon which Mr . Cogan and the present writer have beea examining " , needs not be formidable to Unitarians , . since I presume no intelligent Trinitarian will contend that the apostles were even inspired to wrke the Greek language
in the utmost classical nicety of which > t was susceptible . The whole strength of the Trinitarian argument , however , rests on the supposition that such was the case . But , surely , on our side , there is an antecedent probability that such would not be the case . And
when this probability is moreover fortified by the general doctrine of the New Testament in favour of the strict unity of God , the difficulty sinks to nothing , and the classical journal may multiply its canons on the subject to any extent it chooses .
Tbe conjecture on St . Paul ' s ' * large letters is ingenious . Mr . Parkinson on the Habttnts of the Papyrus . Multmn inpamo .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/17/
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