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ywir creeds Ahea ^ even yom * 6 wn bsdy - > M&h century in advance of your fo * mularie&o # faith . The monement to <> ha 6 , » g ^ » ft ^ age » foi © & frittered ^ way till now it is little more than the * teooticiH ^ ion ^ <> f tbe £ ^ w Testament . Yet thete it stands in your confesioris ia atll its r ^ volti ^ features ^ sfeaming the « e i even whom it ought to deHght . It matters not
The tfertg is changed ^ the name will disappear * Tfefese ar ^ o ^ fri tetpfe l ? he world is too wi « # t < oendure thtestyte £# preaching i * ^ Vbgtijfc € Wo e&tftuu ri ^ since . Diffetently from their predecessors the orthodox of th ^ day must preach ; or they would soon cease to ftfeaeh aralt . The natural feeling < # humanity , though still abused and still repressed , have assamed-Somewtet of their native empire ; they are even now too Strongfor ^ y ^ i ^ , ^ dsif ^ t ^ than lose their influence the orthodox have changed tif ^ fe ^ hiiigj nHir&fe our triump h * Ywir flocks have approximated to x&i tod your Minister
have followed * Our principles have spread amongst them , £ & * $ & yoli ^ uid your associates have taken them tip , and kept yfcur tiSflifc with d € fo&ti&&J character * Atnongst you , also , there are men wto > atein ad ^ nc ^ ^! * l \\§ ti congregations , who preach the poire gospel , at ^ lea ^ otc ^ siOft ^ Jy ^ a n ^ teotiW do so more frequently did they not feel themselves oblig&l iH tfwl pr ^^ ii slate of society to appear less wise than they really are . By the ^ b ^ ttei ^ dti 1 * cated among you , Unitarianism is sometimes preached , thomgh ' th # fedJ ^ horror which bigots have attached lo it prevents the mention < 5 f ^ Ul ^ ^ i ^ ani ^
Both indirect and direct is the ioflirence of our principles JttiiOftg yott >; di ^ d shall we not rejoice that truth is making progress ? For nanifes we car ^ ^ i much . Let creeds be purified ; let liberty prevail ; let the gosp ^ M ^ preached in purity and in power , and we thank hint heartily svbois tHeMnister of God's goodness ^ by whatever name he is known to men / ; The period is but short in which the progress mentioned has been mtfd& Two generations have not passed away since the revival of Unitafiariistti began in England . Priestley has hardly yet mouldered to ashes .
Belsham ' s corpse is scarcely cold . The eye-witnesses of the first , and th& pupils of thte latter , adorn our churches or fill our pulpits . Within so short a period have nearly four hundred congregations been withdrawn frotn orthodoxy or gathered out of the world , has Calvinism been banished from the haunts of men , the atonement stripped of most of its unsightly and utiscripturai features , and the Trinity reduced to a triplicity of distinctions . Orthodoxy , thou changeful thing , outnumbering even Proteus in thy forms , varying thy colours , as the chameleon , with the thousand lights in which
thou art placed , how hast thou lost thy once robust and welMleshed forth , aird dwindled into a shade of thy former self ^ Kind is it of thy friends in this thy wasted condition to forage in the camp of the enemy , that with his spoil they may reward thy forbearance , and save if possible thy emaciated body from going down to " the sidea of the pit , " But whatj ask& the opponent , do these people do for the promotion of ydtrr ^ awse / Not enough ; rfiyy ^ thatryauTnean the proiaotion of our peculiar sentimeritS 4 But ^ br the fP 0 tf ^ her sick , the igndranty iworG than will ever be known till the day of
teal aoeotmtv and more perhaps than those do Who atfe aided in their bette ^ ficencc . by tb 6 coveted meed oft human- applause . And what do Unitarian ^ foit fo ^ eiga landa ? Wd will ftrdt speak of what our principles effect ; Did t { ie Reviewer m ® n ike&txrf ^ ^ orthodoxy springing up spontaneously frorrt the soil ? We think not . It is a thing for man to make , not for God to give . The ^ rainsi and dews of Heavdn are of a nature too refined to quicken it into Ijeing , oi ; to nourish its gross and earthy form . But Unitarianism is God ' s power in raan ^ s heart . The Bible is the only qqickener which ia-a thou-
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774 The Watchman .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1830, page 774, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2590/page/46/
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