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fkmtuitions of Je $ iis and the apttetles &o £ & cttr 6 etecl * - * that therefore Mr . J . was wpong 10 ki& premises , —tlmt in ftjj j ^ l yitig' eqUul censures to such persons now , and maintaining that they must be exposed to a like condemnation , Mr . J . was wrong tn his cotkclusitm . Mr * Jones e s two quotations in iilvi&tr&tioii a ? e therefore inappropriate * ic We read of same who said
is tbc time of our Lord ' s personal ministry , * He is a good man /" These surely could not have been amongst the condemned Infidels . The second illustration is most unhappy . " Agrippa said , Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian . ' " A
more striking instance could not be gifen of a believer in the divine mission of Jesus unwilling to profess his belief . If I used the expression ( I nave here no means of reference )
" Deists may confess Christ to be a good man , " I was wrong "; I ought to
have said Jesus * You have permitted , Sir , a fresh writer , under the signature of a
" Christian Unitarian / ' ( p . 411 , ) to indulge in personal invective against ine ;~ without giving me an opportunity of replying . You will , however , permit me to say , that the writer has ah advantage over me , as I have no idea who he is . But if he feels confident that he has done half as much in support of genuine Christianity aad agahVst the progress of Infidelity a ' s-l ktnve done , his reprimands may eoine with some grace and deserve some attention . J . G .
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feet law of liberty" fib * ttflidh" ^ - ** . pears to be pleading gVe ' fr ' -Wfrlte * ife blushes , a little I will Say , tvith ah ^ er at rn& , for affording hini a practical illustration of the game > Perhaps but I would be eharitable , he is one of those , of whom there are rnany , who are very zealous for the liberty of thinking , speaking and writing oft their own side of all important questions . However , I am really obliged to him for his endeavour to set nje right ; but , ? " Oculls capd fod&re cubjlia talpa * ;"
for in my blindness I must still consider that eloquence as " wasted ' which spends itself in vague generalities , or which declaims about general principles , when the point at issue is not whether those general principles be correct , but if , or how , they apply to the matter in debate . I admire a&
much as he can do "* ' the principles 6 f universal charity and enlightened toleratloti "^~ no , not c < enlightened toleration / ' Init the still more " enlightened principle /* that every one lias aft unquestionable right to bold , profess and enforce , whatever
religrous opinions may seem to him true but I am still unable to perceive bow these principles requite a Christian Church to receive into its bosom professed Unbelievers . Here again , Sir , your correspondent appears to be pleading for a one-sided liberty . Snreiy , even on his own ground of
argument , the right of rejection should be free to be exercised towards th < tee who differ from us "in toto coelo : " else " universal charity and enlightened toleration" become t | he diacklete of a most arbitrjwy bondage .
As to the question . Who is a Chnstranl I agree , Sir , with my opponent , that he is not one wboJKtfc merely a correct speculative faith ; but I see not how the term an bfe applied , on the other hand , Co any man , however pioma and virtuoutf , who denies the divme authority df im
Jesu ^ Christ . doubtless pc ^ - gible to preserve a Christian Church free frottt the contagion of hyp ^ j erites : but because we cannot uvttm one evil , ua ^ t we voltinftarily ernfc *^ anotke p ?
" An Unitariim Ctiristiato ^ # & takes wry yAl ^ vm to e < a simple * m eapre&sive rite ord »** n ea fe $ Cfe ^ Bt * m
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\ fA € tt * Uribeii&tiePs $ mning Unitarian Cvngregatiaitb .
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Deptfordy Sir , August 14 , 1826 . AVAIL myself of your kind permission to effcr a few words in explanation . I beg to assure " An Unitarian Christian / ' ( p . 411 , ) that I have not " yet to learn , that on all
subjects of human inquiry the expression of opinion is , and ought to be , free . " It was one of the first taseons my mother taught me . I quite agree with hi era , " that ethers have tke s a me right to give their ide ^ s of Mr . Jones ' s views as he had
to declare them : " and I go a little farther also , and ckvim for myself the JjbWty , which I have exercised , of
n » qtfk | ng on their remarks . If I j b&y' ^ t ' db'this , where is that " per-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 474, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/30/
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