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flows , as a necessary consequence , a score of others . Unitarian polemics are often accused of misrepresenting the tenets of the self-styled orthodox . The determination of this question depends on what standard of orthodoxy is fixed on as the criterion . To say the least , there are two—the orthodoxy of books , and the few who philosophize on the subject ; and the orthodoxy of the people , with which is closely connected the orthodoxy of the pulpit . Now , if the actual sentiments of the people be taken as the test of orthodoxy , we are prepared to maintain that Unitarians rather under than overstate the
dogmas they oppose . We have heard , and that too by a clergyman in a most respectable town , and preaching to a large audience—we have heard the certainty which , irrespectively of good or bad conduct , the doctrine of preordination gives to the elect , illustrated to this import , though not in these words : When once the relation between father and child has been formed ,
it cannot in its nature be broken . However rebelliously the child may act , he can never cease to be a child . So with the child of God . He may act the part of a prodigal ( and here the preacher entered into a long enumeration of enormous sins ) ; still is he safe ; once a child of God , he is so for ever ; " once elected , he is never rejected . " The same clergyman spoke of " the eternal three" without explanation . The following words , no less offensive for the sentiment they imply than for the doggrel in which it is conveyed , occur at the end of some lines inserted in the Protestant Methodist Magazine for July last : "
Shout , Chorus , together ; To the Trinity , glory , for ever ! And in the number of the same work for September , these , among others , " On the Agony and Death of the Saviour : " Let all creation blush at her Creator ' s anguish : I ask no more ! a voice from yonder skies Reveals the cause divine why great Jehovah dies ! Again , from the Gospel Magazine for October : " The incarnate God . " To the rich fountain of thy blood , Thou great incarnate , precious God , My soul desires to fly .
A little after : Stern Justice with his vengeance came , And wrung the heart of that dear Lamb Who gave himself for me . At the close :
By thy sweet influence , cov ' nant God , U plunge me in that purple flood Whose virtues are so great ; Thai though as vile and black as hell , Constrained by love this truth I'll tell , Salvation is complete .
In plain prose of the same magazine : " The Son in the fulness of time assumed their nature , and came into thi 3 world to do and suffer all that was necessary to satisfy ( he justice and holiness of God for them . " "' It pleased the L 6 rd to bruise him . Is it just ? Is it reasonable that the innocent should suffer for the guilty ? Ah ! reason , thou canst rise no
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Revolting Language of the Orthodox . — Prevalent and Offensive Errors . 4 \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/41/
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