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siooeTfi souls , disentangled themselves from tfae web of sophistry , loving knowledge for her own sake , and foj his whose wonders furnish unceasing subjects for delightful study ; it wants them filled with the love of their fellow-creatures , that they may be ready to call out and bear witness to the gifts of God in other souls ; that they may lend their aid to all who desire to emancipate themselves from the bondage of corruption , and to enter into "the glorious liberty of the children of God . "
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( Continued from p . 88 . )
In resuming our consideration of Mr . BelshanTs services to the cause of Unitarian Christianity , attention is next claimed by numerous productions of humbler pretension , smaller size , and more temporary interest , than those already adverted to ; Pamphlets , Sermons on particular occasions , &c , &c . Whenever Unitarianism or Unitarians were assailed by calumny , Mr . Belsham was ready to stand forth for their defence ; and if , in the discharge of this duty , it proved needful or expedient for him to become in turn the assailant , he was always found to be a vigorous and formidable one . His
pamphlet style was excellent . There was no prosiness about him ; no flat , cumbrous , involved , interminable sentences . No controversy is more readable ; more full of stimulus and vitality . It is not declamatory ; it is not humorous ; but there is a wholesome , manly vigour in it which keeps the reader awake and alive . We doubt whether any of his antagonists did not heartily wish to be well rid of him . With most of the excellencies of an accomplished controversialist , let it be
conceded that he had his share of the failing which has so commonly clung to that character . Plain truths , repeatedly demonstrated , yet pertinaciously cavilled at , he did sometimes re-assert with somewhat of a supercilious and dogmatical air , and an impatient tone . He did sometimes tie to his chariot wheels the foe whom he had vanquished , but who would not confess his discomfiture . The unworthy and base behaviour of certain theologians did sometimes tempt him to the boundaries of " due Christian animosity" of language , though not of feeling . And there were , perhaps , some few occasions in which he was offensive without the palliations which such provocations afford . That this should have been the case we regret ; but we do not wonder . Who of the living that has had much to do with controversy shall cast the first stone ? Who of the mighty dead that struggled valiantly for the truth has come out of the conflict more stainless ? Every virtue of humanity has a failing for its shadow . The mild and gentle generally make but poor reformers ; and those who are incapable of being betrayed or provoked into controversial asperities would be but too likely to leave error and
misrepre-• To the publicatton 3 > whose titles are appended to the commencement of this article , we have to add the following : " The Accomplished Teacher of Religion : a Sermon , preached at the New Meeting-House , Birmingham , November 22 , 1829 , on occasion of the Death of the Rev . Thomas Belshaiu . By John Kentish . " B irmingham : Belcher and Son . London : Hunter . 8 vo .
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1 < t 2 On the Character and Writings of the Rev . T . Belsharn .
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ON THE CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OF THE REV . T . BELSHAM . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/18/
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