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    of that court must by virtue of liis office consider pereticpjl , and for a worship which he must regard as schismatical . Unbelievers in Unitarian

    Congregations . P , 72 . The controversy on this subject carried through the volume has , we understand , given occasion of triumph to one of the Calvinistic magazines . It is sagely concluded that because there are

    Unbelievers amongst Unitarians , there must be an affinity between Unitarianisrn and Infidelity 1 What would the Calvinists say if we were to argue from their own occasional admissions of there being immoral men amongst them , that Calvinism and immorality are in alliance 2 The controversy before us shews that Unbelievers are

    distinguished from Unitarians , and that the connexion of here and there one of them with Unitarian congregations , is to those congregations matter of great surprise . The number of Unbelievers in such connexion is we

    are confident very inconsiderable ; they are in every case known to us , mere hearers and in no one case communicants at the Lord ' s table ; and probably , in all cases , they are rather doubters on some one point of the Christian evidence than decided

    Unbelievers . What should induce an infidel , really such , to attach himself to Christian Unitarians ? Their profession is nearly as unpopular as his own , and they have no bribes to

    offer in any shape to a worldly temper . In truth , no Christians are more disliked and reviled by the leading Unbelievers of the day than the Unitarians . This fact is a sufficient

    answer to the charge which has occasioned these remarks . The Calvinists cannot but know the fact ; the Unitarians can scarcely lament it . Dr . Priestley . P . 75 . The

    English do not , any more than the American Unitarians , look up to this great man as a master . They admire his powerful mind and his excellent character , and consider him to have been

    an eminent and most useful Christian Reformer ; but they do not subscribe to all his opinions . He himself would not have been bound to hold to-morrow the opinions of to-day . What they complain of in " Dr . Cnanning ' s Sermon" is , not that he undervalues , but that he misrepresents Dr . Priest-

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    ley ; what $ bey wqpder at is , not that Dr . Chaniiirig does not receive Dr . Priestley ' s views of the person of Christ , but that he shews an unfriendly feeling towards the Doctor ' s memory . The misrepresentation is we know unintentional , and the

    unfriendly feeling may have grown up insensibly in Dr . Cbanning ' s mind : yet both may be injurious to the cauge of truth . On either side of the water , it is really a work of supererogation for an Unitarian , of any descr iption , to attempt to lessen Dr . Priestley ^ s influence . The world is

    not gone after him . —We mate not these observations in anger but with much regret . We consider Dr . Channing to be a masterly theological writer ; and no greater proof can be given of his powers than his growing popularity with the English Unitari * ans , whom he has certainly takea no pains to conciliate .

    " Geneva Catechism . " P . 77- The favourable reception of this valuable manual of Christian instruction is not more flattering to our Genevese brethren , than creditable to the good sense and piety of our Transatlantic friends .

    Violation of the Principle of the Bible Society . P . 97- The violation is not confined to India . Scarcely an anniversary takes place at home without exhibiting some departure from the neutral ground on which the members of the Bible Society profess to stand . The writer has heard

    clergymen from the platform at these meetings extol the Church of England as pure and apostolical , and praise the Liturgy as all but inspired ; and he is not sorry to remember that he lias

    not always heard such eulogiums without protesting against them . He has heard Dissenting ministers deliver on such occasions something like Calvinistic sermons . He has even heard

    a reverend Secretary of the parent - stitution make his boast in one of tiiese public companies , consisting " partly of Quakers , of the circulation of the Bible by means of the Society among the myrmidons of the late kinof the

    peror Alexander , the Head " Holy Alliance , " and of its efficacy in making them good soldiers ! [ Wlt ) 1 the same flagrant inconsistency , the late Mr . Butterworth , of the Wesley ^ denomination , being in the chair at tac

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 702, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/2/