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wa ? left . feehw l .- < It w& £ r $$ d by tfre faulty * and the consequejice wm * . tliat Wthe means of her dea £ b awd the little ^ ract , $ . ve of the individuals out of seven who composed the famil y *
were awakened and eventually were hopefully converted unto Christ . They have since brought forth fruits meet for repentance ; and these five persons look upon that Tract as the instrument , in the hands of God , of their
conversion . " Surely such a case needs but little comment . The fact speaks , with an appalling voice , of the danger and
destructive tendency of the misapplication of Scripture terms and phrases in attempting to establish unchristian doctrines . Thus a poor , ignorant , and , as far as appears , inoffensive person , was overwhelmed with the
denunciations contained in this tract against Sabbath breaking , which produced the extremity of mental agony , so that health was destroyed , the body sunk in convulsions , and the wretched victim of blind and unfeeling Bigotry , was hurried into eternity in a state of mind more dreadful than words can
express . For the perpetrator of this deed there may be some palliation , as he was not previously aware of the consequence of distributing those instruments of death . But what shall we say of those Societies in both America and England , who can publish such a case as a Gospel triumph ? Or are Dr . Milner and his sabbatical
partizans in this country prepared to recommend a repetition [ if that were possible ) of such a fatal transaction ; that is to say , if by the awakening and hopeful conversion , according to their
notions , of live persons , they would thus sacrifice a human being-, not to say an immortal soul , filling that soul with unutterable anguish , and by those means dooming that Jiuinan being to agony , despair and death ?
This doctrine , then , of sabbatical observan ces , having produced consequences so fatal as the case thus blazoned fortii by the Missionary Societies , may we not reasonably conclude , that where one has been driven to
despair and even to death itself , thousands , whose agitated feelings the world never knew ,, have suffered in secret under a load of supposed # uilt , and have been made miserable hy the anathemas of the misguided .
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sons a t su perstition ? Many < < are ? taW instances cm reqord * of criminals who at their last confession have : attributed the commencement of their vicioiis courses to Sa . bbath breaking . They have been taught so . Perhaps in the thoughtlessness of youth they
neglected their Sunday religious exercises , and in recreation spent that time which might ( or might not ) have been more profitably spent in Church ; but this has been magnified into a great crime , a heinous sin
against God , and judgment threatened and punishment denounced ,- till the youth has thought himself a reprobate , and in desperation has plunged headlong into every vice . Make a man believe himself vile , and he will soon justify the opinion by his conduct .
But such sentiments , such fears , and such mental sufferings , as are detailed above , never could exist , did we adhere to the simple truth , and not allow ourselves to commit the pious fraud of miscalling the first or Lord ' s day . So important does
it appear in this , among very many other instances , that we should oppose , and strenuously resist , the misapplication of words and terms in matters of so serious and deep concern as the truths of religion and the doctrines of Christianity .
These hints are thrown out , Sir , in the hope that some of your correspon * dents who have leisure and talent and the love of Christian truth and simplicity , will come forward and treat this subject as it deserves , to expose
the artitice of the priest and the fiery zeal of the bigot , who , by plausible pretexts and small but often repeated encroachments , are endeavouring to enslave the Christian world and perpetuate the reign of ignorance and fanaticism . S .. H .
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On Dr . Carpent&rff Use , of the T&rm " Evangelical" 28 £
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Bristol , Sir , May 6 , 1826 . 1 AM quite satisfied with Dr . Carpenter ' s explanation of his own meaning in the use of the term " Evangelical , " ( p . 155 , ) but he must pardon me for not being equally well satisfied with lib justification of his unexplained use of that word . Were I to declare in the Monthly Repository that I had b ^ oprae more orthodox ,. . might imt my Unitarian *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/31/
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