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No . VII . c < Watchman , what of the night ? Watchman , what of the night ? The Watclu man said , The morning cometh , and also the night . " Tsaiah xxi . 11 , 12 . The tone of expression , if not the toiie of feeling , towards Unitarians , is , we hope , improving . You may now occasionally read through the whole
of an orthodox magazine without finding any thing worse than notes of pity and horror , with now and then an indirect thrust , and a well-planted and injurious implication . This abstinence may appear strange to those who know the bitterness of feeling , and the constancy of its exhibition , which not long since prevailed against our body . Whether our orthodox friends dread exposure , or have learnt better manners , or are taking rest and gathering strength , we presume not to determine ; but certain it is , that their periodical literature has for a few months past been less deformed than previously
with an antichristian spirit towards Unitarians . But we must not flatter ourselves that things are as they ought to be . When speaking of their own system , the orthodox have a right to call it truth , and to denominate that which we hold error . But this does not satisfy them ; no softer a term than * ' heresy" can many of them find it in their heart to use ; though , remembering the noble appeal which on a similar charge was made by an apostle , they might have learnt to avoid language which can only minister to bad passions , and may serve to confound rather the accuser than the accused .
Even the smooth-tongued Quaker quits his honied strain when he has to speak of Unitarians and their doctrines . " The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends" has just issued a document expressing " their deep concern and sorrow" at the close trials with which their American brethren have been exercised by «« the diffusion of Antichristian doctrines amongst them , " and then , by implication , these doctrines are identified with disbelief in " the inspiration and divine authority of tbe Old and New
Testament . " If the Unitarian Association were to circulate through England &n < l the United States of America a document charging the Quakers with having departed not only from the faith of their forefathers , but also from the truth as it is in Jesus , decryjng their tenets as Antichristian , and impeachipg even their belief of the divine authority of the Scriptures , would the emotions of the Society of Friends fall much short of indignation ? Would not the general voice of Christians cry out shame against so flagrant an outrage of decency ? Well , then , how do we know that these charges
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versaria Theologica , " commenced in 1694 , and therefore containing the author ' s most matured thoughts . The subjects are handled by placing pro * positions with their converses and the arguments for each view in opposite columns . Lord King publishes two of these pieces . The first is headed
" Trinitas . " | " Non Trinifcas . " The second is thus entitled : 44 Christus Deus Supremus . " j < € Christus non Deus Supremus . " As may be expected , they support the negative side in each case .
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64 S The Watchman .
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THE WATCHMAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 648, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/48/
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