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France is awaking from her mental * and moral lethargy ; she is putting forth the energies of her quick and active intellect , and extending her inquiries into every subject whichcdu interest man asai rational gnd accountable being . Religionmust feel the benefit of this changei Wer look with confidence to , more such con * versions to Protestantism as that which is recorded in these pages ^ and we
sympathize , by anticipation , in the joy which they who follow this course must feel when they reflect that there are in the neighbouring territory of Geneva horrest and enlightened spirits , warmed with the love of truth and freedom , who will be ready to welcome them into the bosom of a more liberal church , and to promote , by every means in their power , their present and their everlasting welfare . W .
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Abt . III . —Presumptive Arguments in favour of Unitarianism . By M . L . Hurlbut . Boston : Bowles and Dearborn . Pp . 42 . * The object of this essay is , by a comparison of Unitarianism with the popular system of orthodoxy in some of its leading doctrines , to point out the probabilities in its favour ; presumptions that are antecedent to any direct proofs
derived from the authority of scripture . ^ he firsj pre sumption in favour of Unitarianism that is noticed by our author is this , J nat " jit harmonizes with the vpic ^ ^ . ex ^ e rnal nature ; " secondly , " its repre ^ n tat ions ° f the moral character of po $ . accord , with . the dictates of nature , and reason $ '' thirdly , another
presumption arises from " the different view ^ . whjlch the two systems present of the i ^ ature a ^ d condition of man ;" fourthly , ** ijkerftfa nothing exclusive in the s |> hH of . Uqitarianism ; it permits and require ^ . p ' . ty } i ^ erjcjfce charity towards Christians of £ V £ ry name , ; " fifthly , this system . "' permits and inculcates ; th , e ex ^
ercisc ? of pur reasoning powers on a sublet of aljl 9 ^; erfl mp ^ , w ^ t % . tjo ,, ienv ,,,. ploy Jtjhein $ " and , > ist | y , jty $ pr ( # ump- ( tion arising jErpm '< phe 4 m $ \ iieity \ ofa the faith which n requires as . eswntml to the Chna ^ ap ^ arac ^ r ,, ' ,: . (( , it , u ) ^ e ^ a ] l giye a specj / nen or , two oft the ^ styje oj ?; Jt ^ ia Wjefil ^ a ^^ ned ,, pud ^ p i .. elusive f ^ mmlptp \^ hlphi , y ( id \ h 4 ^ emm 4 reprhuVin t % , c 9 yu || rv .. , ; i ,.,, . ,,: ¦ , i ( m , n I ¦ •^^ pme a ^ yp ^ at ^ p ^ UftU ri » W ^ I »^ eeiw ii to , « s ^ iWjeu a ^ o » ted ^ f ^ ^ f , 4 flfHOff 0 iv / wMwmutm mrmfmt * \ W ?< itm * ™
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sometimes thought that they fifeerotfl 4 o be ^ o ppressedD ? byi ^ tlieoJc ^ sOtdcfi ^ es ^ ' ^ beiirg idnlie miuttrltn <> 'W ^ bdto& 6 V % fei ptfthhee wHh sack Ji feelitr ^; ' ! Wer ^ nv ^ compelled , t 6 regard &&r 6 elW < 9 ss { ktdtiddWgx akine ^ fein ^ e io thq mi ( fe « 4 J ^ tft e ^^^ i ^ liV 1 we should regret tfre cJrcdrtistanee |) HiA cipally ¦ on th ^ account of Others . - Wtt should not 1 feel the teBs satined with our system , ; or the les « confident of H ^
ultimate triump h * We meet our opponents on th « broad level of our inherent rightgf , as men , and as Christians ; rights which they have not given nor can take away . What is it to us , if in a spirit of petulant and overweening vanity , they choose to deny our title to the Christian name ? Their folly and arrogance is their own affair , not ours . " - ^ - P * 8 .
The author cherishes an ardent expectation of the Anal triumph of rational Christianity . " A thick cloud , we are aware , has long rested on the religious world ; but we behold the bow of promise spreading its beautiful arch athwart
the dark surface , and brightening as it expands . We see the * lifting * of the mists , even from those tracts where they have hovered longest , and gathered thickest . Bright breezes , we doubt uot , will soon spring up , and the dark masses roll away for ever . "—P . 42 .
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Art . IV - * The Doctrine of the Holy Scripture * > concerning' the Only True God ; ' and Jmw Christ whom he hath sent . Wf tfoe lafc ; He * Johri Camerbn : L 6 ndon . 1828 . 3 * .
Th b preface informs us- that the author > of this work , which to i now first i pafo * - lished , was for many years minister of the Presbyterian congregation of iDutiluce , in the northern ' part of the county of Antrim , where he died in December 1799 : thati he was originallyi > a strict Calviniftt ; . bututhe loan of Taylor on Original 6 ia , by ; a > dignitary of the Estahliehmeaty i occasioned < the i com ^ ¦
\ , , , meBcemeat of a complete change in his religious : > opinions i that the mM S ; : of < the * work before ; -jua * wa * given by hhfr tofeth ' i i intimate- friend ^ ¦ n ow also dead , Who allowed , the editor to copy it , t ) ut With ' ! that wish ! that it should uot be published unless the attempt i should < '* be reiiewed i to interfere i with > the ) rights of private / *' ! judgHteaV > r and if ^ bind Presbyteriaiwto'i creeds which set reason and conscience '
at defttnoe ;* ' and tthaft ( ibfo casus jfefaHit having ! t anisfln .-j ( as ; every > bqdy ' i ^ io' htt *? heard iof the SydQdi > af'i ( Jl 6 ioi ^ uadi | lsY '
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Oi- ' itical Notices . 781
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 781, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/53/
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