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httuhPW jj **^^ 4 ) ££ iri £ ie ^ ftilly ^ aftdslWil ^ Wjttaeir * detrimen t ^ dn every d ^^ M ^^ yMfeniiKi ^ a ^ d flpmtuaJ /* they- have proclaimed therp convictions , l ^ t it fciiippb « ed that « they t&m * r&rpdi > m ha * test of sacc ( es& ^^^ " ^^^^ f ^ ftiOTftf te » taught theffi that there mmt be sowing before reaping dons ^ C ^ h ^ i ^ they dbubtttot Wll « atec into their laboursand gather abimdtmtlv the fruits * *< $ F
the final triumph of truth , they are as certain as that God is good and faithful . Its universal prevalence th&y feel , no doubt , will take place as soon as consistent with His designs who ordereth all things well . These thoughts # fl their breasts In the discharge of their duty and to banish error , they have done what they cdiild . The event they calmly leave with One whom they know t ^ a well to impeach , and love too well to distrust .
These are among the sources of their support ; and if the Reviewer cannot appreciate the value of them he had better study his Bible before he resumes hk ~ pen . This , however , we have to say to our assailant , that we prefer our vmtchedness to his splendour . Many as are tire good things he enjoys , they are Hot baits alluring enough to catch the humblest Unitarian * The possession and the maintenance of honest convictions we hold dearer
than the Indies * and we have learnt to feel in this manner whether men will hear or whether they will forbear . And throughout this kingdom there are hundreds of the same spirit—^ men who have sold all things , and come to a " wretched -lot , " in order to follow Christ—men who are ashamed of nc * thing but treachery , and who , for the sake of truth , will bear , as they have borne * all the dirt which orthodox hands may heap upon them , and think
they do not a jot more than their duty . How preferable to think and act with such men , few though they be , than with the herd I Fond as he is of human applause , the Reviewer surely is not so greedy as to devour garbage At least he estimates most what proceeds from the best * If so , the unhappy Unitarian minister may , after all , be more nearly on a par with him than
he imagines . Shew me a Unitarian , and you shew me a man of sense . The humblest of the body can render a reason and refuse a bribe * If you seek strength of mind , strength and consistency of principles , we find m the Unitarian body the possessors of them on the right hand and on the left , before and behind . The suffrage of such , small though their number con ^ pared with the many , is worth the noisy and inane shouts of myriads . How unguarded is this Lelectic Reviewer ! How unfit a hand to be trusted with
a delicate subject ! He actually ventures to praise his own sect as standing in the front of whatever is " free ** and " dauntless ? his sect , the knis * named Calvinists , the head of which perpetrated a legal murder on ^ er ve tuK , aud the tail of wlikh , in the recent struggles for religious'liberty , took it * station , as all modest tails ought to do , behind—inglorious position for the " free and ** daunttessw" Perbaq > s he may know , -if not we can * ttll hrtii ^ who ; anjongst religionists led the van on these meniorable oceasionsv The
very men whom fee traduces , the Unitarian body , have the proud consete * i $ ~ ness of having been throughout the atrcgglet ^ fii ^ m and the ; lay out of the field , the foremost in danger , the greatest sBfi ^ € *« ki the- fetriife . In ^ eir conducj ^ whatever thfire rnay have beem in that I-bf ^ oftt e ^ ^ t&re'lm be « n no iuconsislency , no vacillation . From ftrst to test tfiey to a inrtti havo been the declared , active , indefe ^ gable frkwuta of traiversai Telft ^ S * liberty ^ Ami now , who like then * labours tex strike A «? fetterji ftoiii ofi fee J ^ w ? Whose petitions , save theirs , v # ere offeted 6 o »' tlk rfert ^ vttl ttf 3 tti ini pedinxiit , and a disgrace frooi Gbrtatiamty , by itayi ^ tte bn 3 totok ^ ^ f unbelievers ? Who ^ Ise Wotested a ^ inat the ititrod ^« um of a teat ^ v ^ U
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1830, page 771, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2590/page/43/
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