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ott-repea $ e $ , assertion , that God is one ; no authority so commanding as that of the Son of God declaring' that the Father is greater than he . They cannot , th $ y , | da ^ not contemplate God , either in his physical or moral nature , in any othe ^ light than that in which he is so beautifully represented in holy writ , as essentially one—a Spirit , who must be worshipped in spirit and in truth—a Being of infinite perfections—the only Good—the only Wise—the King eternal , immortal , and invisible—the same over his whole intelligent offspring as the most affectionate of parents over his family . Such is the character in
which he is revealed to us by the chosen Son of his love , whom he sent to instruct us both what to believe and what to do , that we may obtain eternal life . Their blessed Saviour they venerate and love , with a pure and hallowed affection , as the beloved of the Father , r ich in every grace and virtue that can render him peculiarly worthy of being the example and guide . of all generations of men , as entitled to everlasting honour and gratitude for all that he taught , did , and suffered ; as raised from the dead , and exalted to the right hand of God , to be a Prince and a Saviour ; and , having abolished death , and
brought life and immortality to light by the gospel , ' able to save them to the uttermost , that come unto God by him . ' From their simple and sublime creed , they learn to entertain the most expanded love for their fellow-creatures of all denominations . They doom no man to everlasting woe for any difference of opinion , or for what they conceive to be erroneous . Though they think it their duty to expose error > they sit not in judgment on the souls of those who err ; but , agreeably to the spirit of evangelical charity , hope
and believe all things most favourable to their neighbours' good . They rely , with perfect confidence , in every situation of life , however trying , in suffering and in death , on the mercies of our heavenly Father , and look forward with faith , and hope , and joy , to a world beyond the grave , where all the doubts which perplex us here below will be dispelled as night before the sun—where every tear shall be wiped from every eye—and all who shall be deemed worthy of entering into the joy of our Lord , shall participate a felicity too pure and exalted either to be described or conceived . "—P . 67 .
We have extended our quotations far beyond our original intention , and therefore shall only reiterate our earnest wish that the publication of these Letters may be found to answer the end proposed by their intelligent author , and that by them the Dissenters of Ireland , and not of Ireland alone , but of the whole empire , may henceforth be induced to regard their Unitarian
brethren not as objects of affected pity and unaffected mistrust , as a sort of outcasts from religious society , but as *• men and as Christians , " equally sincere as themselves in the pursuit of truth , as firmly devoted to what they consider to be the principles of genuine religion . We know there are those who maintain , and conscientiously too , that Ireland is wot yet fit for the reception and promulgation of opinions like these ; that in the existing state of things , all discussion on the subject is
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 741, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/13/
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