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: a to tbe rigttway by true repentaoce ^ ? \> judge from the strain of the pasiage , true believers , when they sin , till preserve a charm about them gainst the small pox , the plague , and i > ther mortal diseasesx When the loose mountain totters fr « om on high , _ __
E ' en gravitation stops , till they go by . "Will our respected opponent meet ithis difficulty for us ? Will he tell us what becomes of the " sincere be-ILiever" who happens to die just after Ihe is hurried away into an abominable crime , and some time before he means to realize the doctrine of Perseverance , by returning into the right way" t
But little was it to be expected that Dr . Smith should particularly sanction and adopt the very mast exceptionable and malignant sentiment throughout the passage . A domineering faction of theologians , who lived at a period when it was fashionable to wreak all
kinds of opprobrious epithets on an opponent , stigmatize those who are unable to embrace the Calvinistic doctrines of Perseverance , as ignorant men and hypocrites . ( As if learning and sincerity necessarily brought men back to the five points !) And these are
the expressions which an obliged correspondent of the Monthly Repository in 1825 , italicizes , for the purpose of levelling them with a cruel point and effect against his living opponents . Such conduct savours of the rage of a worsted combatant , and Dr . Smith has
ho more right , on account of a mere unavoidable difference of opinion in an uncertain and almost verbal dispute , to apply these appellations to his opponents , than his opponents have to apply them to him .
With respect to Dr- Smith's particular notice of myself , I shall only say , that I was equally aware with him that one of the technical definitions , given by Calvinistic authors , of the word Salvation , was " deliverance from sin / ' Yet I would still
maintain , that if , in order to evade Mr . Bakewell ' s objections , he persists in exclusively defining the word in this acceptation , he very much softens the usual strain of Calvinistic Dreachinc usual strain or Calvinistic preaching
and writing which has fallen within my own experience , though I profess not to be deeply learned on the subject . Mr . Johns on Ordination Services
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deserves ^ e& ^ edit moderated $ nd ^ isjrassjopate tone , iOjm of his main considerations , viz ; tW sonj e other occasions besides those in quje s * tion might be chosen for the ctiUfra tion of social religion * seems ^ little captious . If people are really inclined
to adopt thtse occasions / for such a purpose , why discourage them ? Tfe danger likely to result frora the superstition of the observance , I mig-ht say , appears to me , ^ at the present day * altogether imaginary . Least of all Is such a peril to be apprehended among Unitarians . Their tendencies lie
entirely towards the contrary extreme . Mr . Johns would bind tis down to naked scripture . Then why not celebrate tbe Lord ' s Supper in a reclining posture ?—Is there no liberty in the
gospel ? Is it not the glory ami essence of Christianity to adapt itself flexibly to the innocent changes and forms of society ? For my part , republican as I am , I should feel little
regret to see adopted among Unitarians the episcopal form of churchgovernment , —not because I thiok it specifically scriptural , but because it is not anti-scriptural , because it may well embody and render tangible tbe spirit of Christianity , -and because there is
always a something in form and order to which civilized mankind are as naturally attached as the savage is to a wild and roving condition . Mr . Evans on the Sacramental Test Extremely interesting . Dr . Carpenter in answer to H . W . In consequence of reading this
statement , I have procured subscriptions for six copies of Dr . Carpenter ' s first volume in answer to Archbishop Magee . That gentleman will please to consider my private proposals to the Editor of the Repository , respecting the mode of transmitting them .
P . T . on Obituary Notices . Who can quarrel with this good advice ? Memoirs of Pepys . Perhaps there is observable in these articles on Pepys , and much more in an article of the Edinburgh Review on the same subject , too great a disposition to accep t
the gossip of this self-prattling Writer as ample authority . I do not think that so many historical reputations ought to be sacrificed , and so nmoy intricate questions considered as ^ at rest , in consequence of the scan » that Pepys happened to rake up abo »
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A lor his S 16 Critical Synopsis of the ^^^ f ^ y ^^ t ^^ ^ r > JP ^ 4 ^«« * i ? r , 182 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 716, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/16/
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