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¦ 4 i . 'Manchester * SifR , January 26 , 1826 . IN a communication inserted in the Repository , ( XX . 739 , ) entitled , * ' Dr . Carpenter on his Reply to Archbishop Mag . ee /* the following sentence occurs :
" My opinions have acquired greater stability and precision ; and though I have not seen reason to change them materially ( I think ) in any instance , yet my sentiments have increasingly become , what I fliay be allowed to call evangelical , " &c .
The term evangelical , in this sentence , gave rise to some discussion amongst a small party of friends who differed in opinion as to the meaning and propriety of the term as thus used by Dr . Carpenter , considering the received notions which are attached to
it in the present day . It was , therefore , agreed that one of the company should respectfully solicit , through the medium of the Repository , an explanation of the word evangelical as applied , ia the above sentence , to
Unitarian sentiments , being-generally used as descriptive of those most opposed to them . Such an explanation it will be satisfactory to myself and the friends at whose request I write , to find inserted in the next number of
your valuable publication : and we shall all feel ourselves obliged to Dr . Carpenter if he will , with his usual candour and condescending liberality , enter into it . A Friend to Free Inquirit .
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fnquiftf respecting the Meaning of * the Word Evangelica l * 83
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On the Correspondence betiveen a Calvinist and an Unitarian in the last Volume , by one of the Writers . Sir , Feb . 1 , 1826 . NOW that your ingenious correspondent m America has closed
his remarks upon nay controversy with a Calvinist , I feel it proper to offer some explanation as to the origin and progress of that controversy . The Calvinist ia , in fact , an elder brother of mine , and , from his earliest
youth , has been eminently religious . His integrity and benevolence are not less conspicuous than his piety ; and I have , through life , looked up to him with sincere respect- It is nearly forty years since I was first apprised that any sect of Christians denied the
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eternal duration of future punishments ; I was easily prevailed UJ > oa to listen to the arguments which were urged against that doctrine ; but it was not until I had perused the writings and attended the ministry of the late Mr . Winchester that I became a thorough convert to the doctrine of the final restitution of all men to a state of purity and happiness . Having myself derived unspeakable delight from the knowledge of this grand
scriptural truth , I was eager to communicate it to my excellent brother , but had the mortification to find that what I had considered to be an invaluable discovery , he regarded as a dangerous , if not a damnable , error . Our religious communications , which had formerly been frequent and profitable , were thenceforward in a great measure suspended ; and the few which have since taken place have always been conducted , on his part r upon the presumption of my utter incapacity to judge of spiritual matters . The result of conversations carried on upon such a ground as
this , could not possibly be very agreeable , and although we have always been on friendly terms , we seldom touched upon the most interesting of all subjects . I can , however , truly say , that my respect for him was not at all impaired by the contrariety of our opinions \ and , abating my heresy , I have reason to know that he thinks
well of me . It chanced that about the autumn of 1823 , I overtook him going homewards , and , among other desultory matters , I mentioned the Rev . Mr . Irving , whom every one was
then talking about : this plunged us at once into our old controversy . He waxed warm , told me , as usual , that I was to all spiritual purposes blind and dead \ I retorted 5 we began to talk loud , and when we reached the
place at winch we were to separate , we parted rather abruptly . He , good man , fancied that he had hurt my feelings , which , however , was not th <* case , aud tlie next morning , on returning to business , I found upon my table the note which laid the
foundation of our correspondence . It was carried on for about a month . My endeavours were mainly designed to bring him down from the mount of infallibility an which he was seated ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/19/
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