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them speak a little common sense , and stooping f rbth ^ U ^ fiklou ^ gle&tifttt ^ condescend to accost men who walk on the ground . While they promise JUberty ^ tt&ive the Bcriptiur e ^^ as Itti e garter o £ ^ ahclip [ b ^^ M ^^ ' n | '' d ^ let them not wrest away the right of * private judgment wiftf , the 6 meK , WeU
ther l $ t them < descant againsf good vvorks , as if their / performw < % ' were' A crime there is no danger of their becoming oppressive , eitiier ^ Jby- 'tketf 4 nWtitude or their weight ; tyut sometimes deign to quote the injunctidn br / pur Lord , ' Let your light so shine before men , that they may see y ^ ur . ^^ works , and glorif y your Father , which is in heaven / Let theih soinistim ^ s also quote the Epistle of James ,. which declares , that faith without' w ^ rks is dead , and shew that there is some difference between the clead works of the * ceremonial law , and the living works of * faith , hope , and charity ) ib ^ e three ; but the greatest of these is charity / . -
** The anxiety manifested by the new reformers to announce the nuftvbets which they affirm have been converted , would lead us to suppose , th ^ t huftiber is the criterion by which they would have the excellence of their cause to be attested : a criterion to which it is not always wise to refer , since we have great authority for believing that there are more passengers on the broad way that leadeth to destruction , than on the narrow way that leadeth unto life . "Pp . 51 , 52 . ' * From the history of the past transactions of the hew reformers , we cannot augur much future good . They seem to have succeeded in nothing but in scattering the seeds of discord , and exciting animosities which it would be the part of Christianity to allay . They resemble certain husbandmen
mentioned by Hosea , who ' have sown the wind , and reaped the whirlwind . ' Of their intentions I would not judge uncharitably . I dare not say , with a Rev . Dean of the Church established by law , who is distinguished by his ferocious zeal against Socinianism , that their design is political ; and that they would accomplish their object bv the scalping knife and tomahawk . But I cannot help thinking , with a noble statesman , that the new reformation is a chimera , i . e . a ' some-what , resembling the monster which has been so ably depicted by the Greek father of poetry , as % reiov ysvoq sprung from the saints—sd avftpwirov , and having nothing human—a hideous compound of three formidable
creatures—Tlpo < r 6 e Xewv , ouriQtv § e hpacneov , ( jleoto-y ) 8 e x ^ aipa . II . Z . 181 . * In this huge monster of no mortal race , A goat ' s shagg'd body and a lion ' s face , With a fell dragon ' s forky tail conspire / " The next circumstance is peculiarly characteristic—Aeiyov aironveiecroc irvpoq / xeyo $ ai&o ( A £ voio . * Her gaping throat emits infernal fire . ' But I hope , my Lord , that notwithstanding its appalling form there will arise some theological Bellerophon , & £ wv repaecra- * niOv )< ra <; , ¦¦
-- « A / Vl S \ »«/*»*~ i si c % 4 lt ¦ A nlri An — Who reads the skies , And trusts to heaven ' s informing prodigies , ' to free the land from the terrors of this pest . "I cannot find , my Lord , that the new reformers have sent forth any clear manifesto of their views . From what , and fo whaf , do tfrey wia , h , , ^ e people to be reformed ? A mere change from one ba < J system to anoj ^ er would be of small use . The fetters of orthodoxy are , as heavy to " the conscience aS those of infallibility . * Better t > eaf the ills we haVe , than ttV tt > otherstfaatWeknownotof . ?> ^ P . 66 . ' iT •* ¦ ' " ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/12/
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