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half of the ^ posi tion which Is so offensive to Dr . Smith . I think the Unitarians of England , and of York especially , can lay their hands on their hearts ^ and assure themselves before God , hot only that the / are
doing what the authors of the endowments are now approving of ia heaven , but what they would have approved of , and would have caused to be done , if they had been living at the present moment on earth . And this conclusion is still farther
strengthened by the circumstance , that the Unitarians of the present day are constantly making great pecuniary sacrifices themselves in support of what they deem the cause of scriptural truth . The charge against them Of avarice and selfishness cannot fye predicated * therefore , upon the fact of
their apparently entering into fields enriched by the labours and munificence of others . It is at * least etea-r , that if Lady Hewley had become a modern Unitarian , it would not hh \ e closed her hand ; and it is very little short of certain , that had she lived in these days , she would have embraced the new views of divine truth wMcli
nine-tenths of her denomination rri England , and more than that proportion of its wealthy and cultivated membersy have with such remarkable concurrence adopted . This whole question is one of those many complicated ones in which human Conduct is often involved , and in which io milch can be said on differ
rent sides , by different parties ^ according to their passions * interests , and views . Unless distance frofti the scene has caiused me to be mistaken , to J > oint out the instances df insidious tinfaimess iu the book
abovementioned , would be an easy but a copious task . Nor can I well understand why the Unitarians so abruptly declined prosecuting the controversy , except because they felt secure in the
( strength of their legal and moral position . If any more exceptionable inotive was the cause , I hope they will tfome forward and frankly resign what they cannot defend .
The Duke of York ' s sacramental speech is under this article of intelligence . The two points of if vital inkfjaortamce" which he cannot remove , may be removed in this way—admit reppeBCBtatives of the Church into the
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Lower Htaite of Legislators , and th * first difficulty which he siitosu va dishes . This surely would seem to be better than to keep btie-third of a whole empire in discontent and on the verge of perpetual rebellion . Se
condly : That difficulty about the Coronation Oath m&y disappear from his Highness e s mind , if he recollects that although a King of Engfeud cannot entertain , when he swears , any " mental reservation , yet he is not
compelled to keep a ba $ oath more than any other man . Dr . Palfcy has clearly shevvri that such an oath is more righteously broken than observed ; eirid surely there is nothing ia the royal character which excludes it from the operation of Dr . Patey ' s reasoning .
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486 Mr . BeUhftfn on the Review of hte Sermons .
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Mr . Belsham on the Review of his Sermons . Bath , August hy 1826 . MR . BELSHAM is highly obliged to the gentleman who officiates as Revievver to the Monthly Repository for the early notice which he has taken and the candid review which
hk has gi ? en of Mr . B . ' s Volume of Sermons and Discourses , Doctrinal and Practical . Mr . B . requests permission to correct a misconception of
his idea by the Reviewer in p . 421 , where Mr . B . is strangely misunderstood as interpreting the phrase " they that are Christ's , " as including * ' bad men who will fall under final
condemnation . " Nothing could be more distant from Mr . B / s meaning " , which he trusts will be made fully apparent from the following quotation of the
context : " To this successive introduction to ultimate felicity the apostle alludes in the 23 d verse , where , after having observed , that as in Adam all die , so in Christ shall all be made alive ; he adds , but every man in his own order . Christ the first-fruits — afterwards , they that are Christ ' s at his coming-— Then coineth the end : a third period more glorious still , when Christ shall have put down all rule , and all wick
authority and power : when all - edwess shall be subdued , and wlien the wicked , each in their own order , having been gradually purified from their vices and raised to ha ppiness , all misery shall be exterminated .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/22/
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