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alrtiiito fcrfe-bifeflfreh , * he children of itfce * fcatoe AlirijgWfyFather ? He was indeed modest 6 rra humble and bettevbleAt and cdncil $ &ta £ ; . **** what tVfttffd have been thdttght of his docfrineintd ' hfe acted upon swh % iotSons as tho ^ e d&erished by Mr . J . ?
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Mdfelfty 6 giF- ^ Tfffl <* ienfcy whieh tit ^ i ^ e-Wm '* Sfer ctitfdtet tif ^ btit too ma « y wfe ^ rbffess , i& these * & 15 &tttefted d ^ y « , 1 ^ Hte- % fifin 08 t ligld fc « feFwtrr ^? Afrfe ikidtiatfi ^ e latter too much disposed to imitate the Pharfeee ^ ^ f old with
their Stand off , for I aai holier than tbtfu ? Will Mr . J . deny l * at this 4 s € * : * hfc getinine spirit" » f thrfr Chrtedani ^ rr A ^ id if it fcEfftitefc be deaied thrftit is , ought not such b ^ lieivers to euspehd theh- " ftopro v ^ * ^ at the presence of Unbelievers , and to
abstain from stig-tnatizing and reproaching : them with ^ injustice , ' or want of modesty in the sij ^ ht of men" ? If such men ^ are really sincere and serious irk their * ' concern for the reputation" ^ rf their Christianity , ought Ifbey mot to shew by their candour , Ktterblity and kindfteeB , that it will be j » 6 discredit for Jn * delB to associate
with Chetn ? ff ;^< J-ti& 6 vali dwelle th not in temp ies made with hands—and heaven is his throne and eaith is his footstool ^ " how arrogant and indeed ridiculous is the attetnpt to inculcate the idea that the presence -of Unbelievers in an
Unitarian church , is an * ' injustice " and a ** reproach" I I * not such a notion utterly discordant with the practice and instructions of Jesus himself ? Does not the whole tenor
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of them prove that be deemed tfeU gfoa a personal concern between God aad hfe crea ^ a re man , Wn ^ istlng in b ^ nefieent actions and unity of moral feeling-, rather than in muformity or correctness of opinion ? And was not
the Beings whom he worshiped and whom he taught others to worship , that God whom he designates as a " spirit , " and the true worshipers those who " worship bifin in spirit and in truth * ? Did he not himself
worship this Spirit , and moreover ^ caH upon Je ^ s and Gentiles to pay hemage to the same On ^ iripotent Jehovah , rtie God of Israel—the " Father 6 f all iti every age , in eve ry ^ eliiae adored ** ? Were not the Jews Deists ?
And in what then consists the impropriety of a modern Unbeliever worshiping the God of Jesus ? Are 1 he Jews the irreligious and hateful beings which some modern divines would have Unbelievers to be thought to be t Do not the same moral feelings
exist , and the same moral motives operate , now as in the days of Jeans ? Are there no good Jews and Samanitans too in our times ready to do good to a fellow-creature in distress , though the priest and the levite may
be disposed to pass by on the other side , because his creeu may « ot be precisely of their dimensions ^? Jesus taught a morality which was pure , benevolent , liberal and philanthropicH what a pity it is that some who pro » - fess to be the teachers of his doctrine
seem to know so little of his lessons , and to have imbibed « o small a portion of his kind and courteous spirit ! ButMr . J . seems desirous to have € t a confession * ' as a test to discrimi * nate his true followers from
Unbelievers 1 A test aniong Rational Dissenters ! and mereiy because ignorance and bigotry may chance to say that his profession of religion is * cowardly Infidelity" ! What ha ? e been the consequences of religious tests ? Has not the invariable effect
been to make men hypocrites and knaves ? And are knaves and hypocrites to be preferred as the " subscribers to £ iici members of Unitarian congregations , " to " . ac . lwe ,. fefficten t and highly-respectable" meii ? to what pitiable straits is bigotry sofiaetimea reduced ! If sin , our comJXWft intercourse with our fellownmen we were governed by a regard to precise
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/34/
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