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argument reminds me of a most reprehensible artifice practised by the * Socinians not many years ago , ahd reported , as worthy of imitation , in one of those journals which are open fo £ every thing that is mischievous / ' ( Tlie Leaureate refers probably to the E $ ~ amlner . ) " They offered a reward to a set of school-boys for any one who should find the word Trinity in the
Bible ; and this was represented as an ingenious and praiseworthy device for leading the boys to infer that the doctrine is unscriptnral . An Infidel might just as fairly invite them to look in
the same place for the word Christianity , and argue , with equal reason , that Christianity is a fable , because there is no such word either in the
Old Testament or in the New ! " ( Pp . 230 , 231 . ) Passing by the fallacy that lurks in the Laureate's simile , which is absolutel y good for nothing unless be can find a word or words tantamount to Trinity in the Bible , © id leaving him to the quiet use of €
the " ill-mannered" term * oociniangy" which he knows well enough is nq ^ Joo ger appropriate , but which he knows equally well is offensive , —let
me " remind' * this eager polemic that he founders in his fact . The reward was not offered by the Unitarians , but by an individual , an Unitarian Churchman , who was regularly
educated afc one of our Universities , and never joined any Unitarian congregation , but on the contrary has always frequented the worship of the Church of England .
Let the Laureate inform himself better before he becomes again the accuser of the Unitarians ; and it would be well that he should
moderate his temper and soften his language , if he would really distinguish himself from " J . M ., Vicar Apostolic / ' and the tribe of polemics , whose " words are sharp swords , " and above all , if he would convince the world
that he is a practical as well as poetical Christian . CANTABRIGIENSIS .
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mm * ^ £ > w # 72 upon Unitarian Chapete . f ^ HE Congregational Magaziue has JL returned to the project of dispossessing Unitarians of their places of worship , and we think it may be useful to put some of its statements upon
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record * Our readers will bear in mind that this work is the organ of the Independents , who usually set up t ^ eij * claim for being true Dissenters and warm friends to religious liberty . The Congregational writer represents the Unitarians as maintaining " the high prerogative of reason in
separating the credible from the incredible of revelation , and in rejecting as spurious whatever may be above * its comprehension ; " and further , as denouncing " the preaching of th ^ cUvi * nity of Christ as blasphemy , thejj > elievincr in the existence of the Devil
and of Hell as the height of folly , in the sufficiency of the Scriptures ^ s the grossest absurdity , " as exalting " the light of reason to the Level of revelation , " and as holding " hut such parts
of Scripture to be inspired" as fall in with the " scheme of the gospel as it ought to be . " This is a specimen of the theological knowledge and discrimination , and the honesty and candour of the Congregational penman .
He praises the lawyer who started the scheme of ejecting the Unitarians from their Houses of Prayer , for " the habitude of striking at the point , and at those parts only on which somewhat more than mere honour is to be gained /'
He refers with apparent satisfaction to the abominable statute of William and Mary against Anti-trinitarians , the repeal of which was hailed with delight by every man of every party , not blinded by passion or hardened by bigotry . He looks to Courts of Law for
assistance to the " Evangelical" cause . He admonishes the Unitarians to give up quietly to the Congregational ^ their chapels , which ' tf they could not hold but for the ruinous expense of dragging them into the Court of Chancery , to learn there that the law can and will compel them to act like honest men . "
Finally , he promises to return to the subject , and to produce " matters of very grave accusation" against Lady Hewley's Trustees , Dr . Williaxns ' s , and those of the College at York , all of whom are to be summoned to the bar of the Congregational . Will this writer dare to give his name ?
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168 Design upon Unitarian Chapels
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/40/
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