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were , in a more than common degree , conformable to the standard of duty towards which his eye wgs directed , and that all pur scepticism must be reserved , for hjs opinions , and the particular course of conapct to which those opinions sometimes led , Haying before our eyes the effect which similar sentiments produce on other characters ; knowing that , though modified , in a thousand ways , by internal disposition and outward circumstance , Calvinism
will ever produce a certain tone of feeling and course of conduct , of which the good is | the good of Christianity itself , and the evil is the evil of what is human in the system , ^ -we expect that an eminent Calvinist will more or less have his part in what we cannot but consider error * And yet , though such be our own impression , it is impossible to rise from the survey of a life , laborious , virtuous , full of love to God and man , like that of Legp Richmond , without
a wish that they especially who are themselves preparing for the services of the sanctuary , may receive from it a new impulse , prompting them to rc- » consider their own previous steps , and ponder the path ? of their feet , that all their ways joaay be established . 111 , indeed , shpuld we augur of the future course of that man who should firjd here onl y themes for objection and di ^ culty ; who had made hiras ^ lf perfect in the study of the Calvinist * but had felt no genuine sympathy with the Christian *
We know it will be said that in giving to Legh Richmond the title of a real Christian , ( erroneous as in some points he might have been , ) we give what he would have conscientiousl y withheld from an Unitarian , however earnest , serious , and self-sacrificing . But what then ? We can believe he loved us , though he believed us jq dangerous error : we hope it was his infirmity to condemn tl \ ose whom Ood has not condemned . Even now the clouds may Have passed from jbefore him an $ he may have found brothers where he looked for ipes . That Saviour who was precious tQ himself , he
may be convinced was precious to them also , and voices m , ay be , joining in the chorus of praise offered up at the Internal Throne , with which on earth he would have deemed it treason to unite . Not that it Is well to silence every just complaint against religious intolerance hy a referenqe to eternity . To the minds of me Aggrieved , this fe , indeed , tpe best refuge ; but one could wish good and t > io , us ' men , fpi 1 their own sakes , as well as , % r the peace
of the world , tb feel tnattiiey wbuld . be more humble , more ^ par conformity to the will and word of Gbd , if neither in thought , nor deed , npx word , did they anticipate his judgments upon what they deem mental e / ror . If , not being infallible , they would allow ! the principle of HpPE for their fellowcreaiurea to predominate , where could bpssibly be the , ^ vil ? W ^ have felt no desire tfeat the Memoii b ^ ifore us had been abridged , unless by the su ^ pressiori of a few pages of extract from Mr . Richmond ' s
pri-? A Memoir of the iWv . tagh Richmond , A . Mt > of Pr \ n \ ty College , Cambridge ; Rector of Turvey , Bedfordshire ; and Chaplin ta his Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent . By the Rev . T . S , drirae ^ w ^ , A . M ., &c . 8 vo ,. Pp . 674 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/22/
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