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statement of his doctrinal views , Mon . Repos . far May , 1825)— " Oar limits will not permit us to notice the malversations of the trustees ( Lady Hewley ' s ) in reference to the Alms-house at York , and the other objects of their trus $ ; but they correspond with the specimens we have given of their conduct in relation to ministers and students . - ~ consider the subject of no small moment , as affording additional and conclusive evidence of Unitarian
morality , " In the number for Decembers-first , we have a bare-bead and bloodybone story told of the life , confessions , and edifying death of ** a doubter , " " an old doubter who understood all isms ~~ - from Antinomianism up to Atheism , " who quoted as curious or worth thinking of the opiqion" ( oh , nefas !) " of Dr . Priestley . " " Others he tried to seduce—but an antidote was furnished by the old doubter himself . " " In the desperation of an
awakened conscience he tried to drink himself to death—and failing , swallowed poison . Whilst writhing under its effects , the writer was called in to see him die . He heard him curse the spirit of what is called free inquiry . He saw him tear off the mask from his soul . He was warned by the seducer to stop in time . " And all this tragic strain is given to frighten naughty children out of thinking with " Dr . Priestley and Robert Robinson , ( hat mental error was innocent : " that " to follow truth wherever it led was
no-P-ble ; " and " to frighten young and old Socinians" into thinking that " they treat the authority of God , in matters of faith , as basely as profligates treat it in matters of practice ; " that " the whole state of the Socinian mind is in hostility to the whole system of salvation by the blood of the Lainb , " and takes " reckless liberties with the word of God ; " that " Socinianism brands
the wisdom , the justice , and the truth of God ; " that "it strikes at his whole character , and most of all , at his mercy ; " that it is "the highest sin in the scale , " as it is " that daring which dictates to God—which discards or derides his word—which pours the direst scorn upon the things which are evidently dearest to the heart of God ; " that it is " open and quarterless warfare against both the Divine character and government ; " that it is " human nature in its worst shape towards God . Its calmness , coldness , and freedom
in doing as it likes with what he has said , form the very climax of ungodliness . This spirit is the concentrated essence of supreme contempt for divine authority . It makes God nothing . " In the January number we read , " Captain Hall totally misconceives the extent of Unitarian influence in this country ( America ) . It is a mere local disease , limited to Massachusetts and , especially , the vicinity of Boston . Elsewhere it is little known , and of little power . Even here its influence is greatly broken , and , we trust , the system
has received its death-wound . Its advocates have recently come out with an explicit denial that the Scriptures are a revelation . They have been forced into this denial by the urgency of arguments derived from Scripture . Thus their system or the Bible must be given up . " So low is the cause of Unita-r rianism in America , they tell us , in the very teeth of their own admission in the number for March , that the Harvard University , containing " 269 students , " a library of " 34 , 600 books , " and " 15 " professors , the whole
number of whose alumni , since its foundation , is 4 , 941 , of which 1 , 271 have been ministers ; " that the Harvard University , " the roost ancient and best endowed classical establishrnent in the United States , " to which the " list of contributors is long and respectable , containing sorne of the most distinguished characters in Great Britain and America , " is in the interest of Unitarianism , " the painful fact" being recorded , " that Socinianism is the undisguised creed of several of its professors . " In the number for January last , six pages of the , work are taken up in an attempt to exhibit " the
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Holy Horror raised against Free Inquiry . 175
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/31/
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