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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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afford to lose our aid in maintaining their stand against that torreat of i gnorance and fanaticism which sometimes threatens completely to overbear them . No doubt many of them would gladly have done more on the recent occasion , had the feelings of their party allowed , had they not been restrained by the timidity of some , and the violence of others . We regret that they should have occasion to throw such a sop to Cerberus as the following .-
" Beyond the expression of their opinion in the petition which they agreed to present to both Houses of Parliament on the Catholic Question , the body of the Dissenting ministers have taken no steps for the propagating of their sentiments . TTieyhave used no efforts to rouse their brethren in the country , far less have they expressed any opinion of the conduct of those who differ from them . "—Letter to Lord Holland , pp . 23 , 24 .
On subjects certainly not of greater moment they have used very strenuous " efforts to rouse their brethren in the country . " All of that which was done , on the present occasion , was done by the Unitarian Association . But if we rightly read the signs of the times , there is a spirit excited among Dissenters , and rapidly growing both in its extent and its energy , which will not allow their ministers to act upon a timid and conn promising policy . And if some of them shrink , on the one hand , from the imputation of being led by , or co-operating with , Unitarians , they may perhaps be taught , ere long , to shrink , on the other , from the severer reproach of only following-, in the rear , with hesitating step , that march which they ought to head , the march of the friends of religious liberty in all denominations to the completion of its glorious , bloodless , and blessed triumphs .
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On the Logos : EMr act of a Letter from the Rev . C . JV . If pham , Salem , Mass .
To the Editor . Sir , March 21 , 1829 . While 1 am writing , I would take opportunity to observe , that the difficulty which the writer of an article upon my ic Letters on the Logos /* in your
last Volume , p . 689 , found in a note , was entirely owing to an error of the printer , who , by putting an " L" in the place of a " W , " changed PFord into Lord . This was so obviously a typographical oversight , that I cannot but wonder at the doubt of the writer of
the article , f cannot admit the idea that he wished to insinuate that it was on my part an intentional misprint , adopted " for the purpose of corroborating my argument . " So far from corroborating my argument , the use of " Kvpios , " instead of " Aoyoq , " in the Septuagint , would have removed the whole groundwork of iny reasoning and speculations in tjiat part of the inquiry . I mean , by
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434 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
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the mere humanity , " p . 688 , of our Lord , that view of his character which strips him of the superiority of nature falsely ascribed to him , and fails at the same time to invest him with the true glory , as I conceive it to be , of his office , as the eternal word of God to man . With respect to the remarks neartlie top of p . 690 , 1 would only sav , that if a design
which can be perverted is therefore necessarily unwise , then there never was indeed any wisdom in the world ; then will it be true that it was unwise in the Father of lights to beatow upon man the faculties of intellect for the purpose of guiding hMn to truth , * for thfy have surely led him , too often , to the grossest error ;
then , indeed , was it unwise in the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ to send him into the worlcj to establish his truth , and make fiis children blessed ; for it cannot jbe denied that Christianity has been perverted into an instrument by which truth has been oppressed and resisted , and the peace and happiness of man vio * la ted and trampled upon . mmm mmjm ^^ m ^^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/66/
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