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the civil maintenance of falsehood arid delusion /* would * be * ' thev commission of a ktJOMm crime ; " nor that it " muSt nefces * atily create resisstanee , " any more thtiwth& payment of tithesi We ttiutt dfde ^ ohtfvreverj , in hi $ iJbactosion , that " * y $ v 4 &H * Givil governors , to confine
their-attention toahe legitimate Objects andi e * i < ls " df- civil legislation , leaving re ^ . ligibfi t © take its course by its own power andcresojifroesy or lending it their sane * tion only hi a moral respect , they would best secure its-real interests , and furnish less occasion for dissatisfaction in any class of their subjects . "
The style is chaste and nervous . We extract * the following remarks on the formality ; of Church-of-England religionjuas a > specimen of the author's manner * . * " Nor can I in this place fully ex * pose , although I cannot refrain from touching upon , the dreadful influence of that mechanical routine of ecclesiastical
observances , * which is all that multitudes in England know of what they are told is Christianity and religion . The church of God has never been in much danger from an undervaluing of the external ordinances of religion .
The danger has generally been of ait opposite kind . The great evil to be deprecated has always been the substitution of forms for the power of godliness , the sign for the thing signified , and a ritual obedience for spiritual holiness . The disobedient Jew has
trusted to his natural descent from Abraham , and to his circumcision for salvation ; the ignorant aud vicious papist believes that the sacraments and the absolution will save him ; and how many thousands equally disobedient , ignorant , and vicious , in our own land , have lived and died with a lie in their
right hand ! Taught from their earliest years by their own venerable and apostolic church , that they were ' regenerated in baptism , * and thereby made * members of Christ , * children of God , '
and * inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ; f confirmed afterwards in the delusion by the imposition of episcopal bauds , recognized as Christians ever after ; and , however immoral , admitted as such to the table of the Lord ; absolved from all their sins on their
death-bed by their Savioutf , the clergymany i aud receiving the * * < B&cramental passport' to heaven from his hamdsi they die $ <» the puryivdfs hear' thanks glvetr to Go ( t » for taking > fchei * scwIb ttfhimseifj and in perfect conelfttenoy with the wljole delusion , their bodies arc buried ,
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in certain hope of the resurrection to eternaPHfej and all this takes place continp&Hy ,. without any inquiring jnto the « feyiSenfes ^> f conversi on ' of htfart , 3 nd even ifa -thV face of iimumer ^ le k f * reofs ^ £ an impenitent , unbelieving , wicked mind ! . And this is ^ Metf&he &j&stouW ^ h ¥ i ^ ari churchr ^ pV 4 <) , 50 . * ' - - v- : - \'
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kn ^ r . Vl . r-jOn some Corruptions of Scripture . . Pp . 28 .. On Tests of True Religion . Pp . 20 . On the Evidence necessary to establish the Doctrine of the Trinity . pp . ; i& ' The Apostle Paul a Unitarian . Pp .
35 . Objections to Unitarian Christianity considered . Pp . 18 . A Serious and Friendt y Address to every one who h halting between Two Opinions , and is willing' to have his Doubts , Fears * and Suspicions removed . Pp . 18 .
These are Tracts published for the American Unitarian Association , and appear to us well calculated to diffuse correct information , and to remove many of the prejudices with which our
system is regarded . That which is entitled , " On some Corruptions of Scripture , " conveys in plain , familiar conversation , the result of correct criticism in reference to the
different passages of Scripture as relating to the Unitarian controversy , which are affected by Griesbach ' s emendations . We give the following as a specimen of the manner , p . 26 :
** You said that there were different readings in different manuscripts . Why may not the alterations have been made by Unitarians ; for I suppose some of the manuscripts were written by them , were they not ?"
" Min % It is doubtful whether any now in existence were . During ' jthe dark ages , when most of ' the manuscripts now known were written , the Holy Scriptures were In the keeping of Trinitarians , who cettainly would not suffer them to be altered to favour
views Which they deemed erroneous . Accordingly there is no evidence whatever of any change having been made in the manuscripts , of the New Testament to favour the Unitarian scheme . This b a striking fact , and merits serious
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Critical Noticed 625
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/41/
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