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different languages necessary for elmc ^ datmg the fullest evidence of the | f truth * A mind thus ardently bent oil obtaining the pure revelations from heaven , and so perfectly free from prejudice and every religious bias 6 f system and sectarian ereed , and with abilities arid
strength of mind qualifying him for apprehending the subject of his investigation , and which , for his own sratis ^ - faction and for benefiting his species , appears to have been the sole object of his arduous undertaking , sacrificing to its attainment th ^ endearing ties of
f riendship , kindred and affection : —can the Christian public be justified in treating such a man with obloquy or neglect merely because the result of his patient , unbiassed examination of our Scriptures leads him to opinions , in some points , different from their own ? Would it not be more
consistent with a reverence for truth * the reading his works with due attention , and to consider whether such a character , so peculiarly novel , may not bespeak some high behest I At least ,
it ought to awaken a serious and can * did perusal of his arguments in sup- * port of those opinions whereon he so decidedly grounds his own fdifk > as built on the fullest conviction of their
being the doctrines of both the old and new dispensations , and which dispensations he feels no doubt in believing are revelations from heaven , thereby avowing himself a Christian .
Having but lately seen his ( Rainmohun Roy ' s ) publication of " The Precepts of Jesus , " and his " Appeals to the Christian Public / ' on the Rev . Dr . Marshman ' s censure of his
compilation , and their controversy on the doctrines of revealed religion , in which the superiority of the compiler ' s scriptural knowledge over the Rev . Dr . ' s studiously selected little but numerous texts of Scripture , and his systematic deductions therefrom , suggested to my imagination the following images , viz . that of the Rev . Dr .
as a nian of ingenuity and learning , long and sedulouyly occupied in close examination into , and picking from the eagle his small and minutest fea * tller 8 > &JQ JL with this tiny collection fancying * himself possessed of the powers of that mighty bird , yet leaving to his opponent the eagle himself wth his strong plumed pinions um touched , wliefeon he soars aloft toxxi
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w&ot bmtfen , fadug We blaming Stef , oastSaif tfe $ nc ? e w took of ptiftfh < M ^ vaiff attempt ta stop Iris * f > n % res $ &t throw the shadow of a shatte ovdr his clear and ; luminous egfrositibfts .
That worthy and ze&l&us adVdedrte of Unitarianism M Madras , William Roberta ' s ifrodests but anxious call fbfr missionary aid from England , reminds me , as often as I think of him , of tihb request of tfefc man in visionary api . pearance to Pael whilst at TrGafc
( Acts xvi . 9 ) : " There stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him , s&yiftg , Gome over into Macedonia and fieljfc us . " Is there no Paul among out ranks ready to go over unto Mad fas
to uphold and strengthen the feeble hands of stich a faithful and aeatlous disciple as William Roberts , and who by age and infirmity is rendered nearly incapable of longer sustaining alon 6 bis honourable station ? Yet without
a successor , in case of his decease ot greater incapacity , the valuable fruits of his extraordinary labours wouW fall blighted to th ^ e grouted . UNITARIAN .
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On the Moral and Christian Use of the Lord ' s Supveir . 163
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Sir , MOST sincerely do I congratu late you and tlie public , on the liberality which the Inns of Court have displayed in abolishing the custom of requiring gentlemen , previously
to being called to the Bar , to produce a certificate of their having- partakeii of the Lord ' s Supper according to the ritea of the Church of England ^ and which has been taken notice of by your correspondent W . H ., p . 39 . Few * even among the youngest or the most
enthusiastic of your readers , can hail this instance of the increasing liberality of the age with greater pleasure than I do ; but while I rejdieg M this ! omen of better times , I must ndt , ^
a Dissenter , forget that there i& a barrier w ^ hich the Legislature of my country has opposed to prevent per * sons having peculiar religious opi * nions from taking upon thetnaelvea certain offices of trust and confidence ;
The Test and Corporation Act still appears on our Statute Book as an existing law , and , as long as it remains unrepealed , should , I think , deter persons who entertain sentiments on religion different frdm ^ those inculcated in the doctrines of thfc Church of En-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/25/
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