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he would never have penned such a passage as the following : he has be ^ n speaking of " the successful culture and proper application of biblical knowledge , ' and continues , * ' With the same weapons also must } we combat , as they from time , to time arise , the false and injurious doctrines which the Unitarians of our own
country are continually endeavouring to obtrude upon the pages of the Sacred Volume . The most illiterate Christian , with the vernacular version } n Ms hand , may indeed easily refute their unscriptural opinions ; but as they appeal from this simple process to elaborate philological arguments , it is necessary that the sound biblical student should be able to meet them in this arena , and thus overturn , as has hitherto been most triumphantly done , their unhallowed speculations . ' *—P . 45 . ¦ - ;
After this , and what he says of the Unitarians in p . 208 , we have no very sanguine hopes , we must confess , of seeing Mr , Carpenter converted to the opinions which we deem evangelical ; but sure we are , that " the successful culture and proper application of biblical knowledge / ' not only have confirmed , but will continue to confirm , those speculations which to him ar > pear so " unhallowed . " Biblical criticism has already deprived orthodoxy of some of its main supports , as for instance , 1 John v , 7 ; Acts xx . 28 ; 1 Tim . iii . 16 ; Rev * i . 8 , 11 . Let Mr , Carpenter then put in as many caveats as he pleases against the poison of Unitarian heresy—we will tell
him , that the very rules which he prescribes render his warnings of no avail ; the seed which he has sown will spring up into a harvest , the kind and quality of which will astonish the eyes of the sower ; and they whose inquiries terminate in the adoption of a simple , a rational , and a trul y evangelical faith , will not rejoice in it the less , because their light and their guide has been one who has not consistently followed the principles which he has himself laid down .
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No . IX . c * Watchman , what of the night ? Watchman , wliat of the night ? The Watchman said , The morning cometh , and also the night . ' * Isaiah xxi . 11 , 12 . The last Report of the American Unitarian Association , which we have laid before our readers , is calculated to occasion both joy and sorrow . In regarding the zeal and energy which prevail among our Transatlantic brethren , and the consequent triumphs of their righteous cause , we feel that
pure and exalted pleasure which results from the perception of the progress of truth and righteousness . But when we turn from this gratifying picture to the Report of our own Association , and the state of primitive Christianity in England , we feel painfully the contrast that presents itself , and would fain inquire if there is not a road to a brighter prospect . We shall therefore , in the first place , consider our present condition , and in the second place and on another opportunity , our present duties , as Unitarian Christians , The Missionary labours of the Unitarian Association during the last year must be pronounced an almost entire failure . Three missionaries have been employed , and they have been employed nearly in vain . We speak of course of tne manifest and declared results of their exertions . How far their preach-
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VOL ,. III . 3 G
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THE WATCHMAN .
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State of Unitariankm in Great Britain . 761
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1829, page 761, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2578/page/17/
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