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    nothing as to prevalent controversies , atHi every onfe who believes in ( he Scriptures / and we among the rest , could with gre&t satisfaction declare his faith of almost every article it contains . We believe there is an old , we fear in sonffle quartet &n almost obsolete , command , *< Thou shalt not beat false witrifess against thy neighbour . *

    Churchmen , at least , from the frequent opportunities they have of beholding this injunction in tetters of gold , might be expected to know something of what it requires . Yet from the Archbishop of Dublin down to the humble periodical scribbler , it has been honoured more in the breach th ^ h in the observance . We mean not to disparage periodical literature in general , but we must be allowed to express our astonishment , mingled frith pity , that any respectable editor should admit such trumpery as that on " which we are now about to remark * In itself the production is unworthy of notice , but in its effecfe it may be , and doubtless has been , highly injurious , and on account of their effects only are such puny efforts deserving of castigation .

    So , haply , slander , Whose whisper o ' er the world's diameter , As level as the cannon to his blank , Transports his poisoned shot , may miss our name , And hit the wound less air . " The general character" of ** the Socinian creed , " a writer in the Christian Guardian , who offers himself as a leader of the blind , thus gives : . " No

    Redeemer , nor Intercessor ; no Incarnation , nor Atonement ; no sanctifying hor comforting Spirit , is to be found in their creed ; both heaven and hell , angel and devil , are equally banished from their consideration . " But a serious list of negatives might be made out against this son of the church ; for long ias iriay be his creed , Othets there are who have longer . A Roman Catholic , we will suppose , endeavours to excite a pious horror by a pious fraud against him , and thus declares : " No transubstantiation , no angelic

    intercession , ho auricular confession , no worshiping of images , ho infallible guitle , is to be found in their creed ; both purgatory and masses for the dead , mir&clea tod miracte-workers , are equally banished from their consideration . " The Hindoo desirous of checking me progress of Christian missionaries , Alight easily , b y similar misrepresentation , "disgrace niniself ancl obstruct the way of inquiry and truth . But what tinholy arts are these ! - ^—arts which many a Hindoo whom our Christian Guardian would , no doubt , desire to convert ^ &nd whose saTVability ( to usfe a new-coined , wor ^ l ) he would gravely , question , would disdain ( 6 tfee . In the words of Hotspur , we say to Iftfe Guardian ,

    " Oh , while you live , tell truth and shame the devil . " But , like Glendower , the Christian Guardian is somewhat attached to the devil ; for one of the grave charges against the Unlucky Unitarians isy that they have no devil in their creed . 0 Judgment ! thOu art fled to brutish beasts , And men have lost their reason . he

    To ^ u&rtel With a fello * r * cr 6 ature because has " banished" the devil from his " consideration , " deems not i 8 r froth the height of absurdity . But if the writer knew how to diis £ rimin # te between yrorfik and things , and had been dispensed to act fairly ^ by Unitarians , lie might have found them in a less pitiable situation , even in tfris respect , t ^ han he has chosen to set forth . The ^ fevil Of common creeds and common apprehensions they do discard ,

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    650 The Waiehman .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/50/