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" X . We believe that all men have fallen short of the duty which they owe to God , and in some part of their lives have polluted themselves with the guilt of sin . " XL We believe that Christ came to take away sin , and to deliver his
followers from the consequences of those that have been abandoned . " XII . We believe that repentance and faith are the conditions which this Saviour of the world was empowered to lay down for man ' s acceptance with his Maker ; repentance , such as will fill the mind with a horror of evil ; and faith , which shall be effectual in making him anxiously alive to the importance of cultivating holy and virtuous habits .
" XIII . We believe that he who is himself resolutely and perseveringly anxious to lead a new life will be heard not only in his fervent supplications for pardon , but also in his devout prayers for the Divine assistance and blessing : that the Divine influence is extended to every true penitent , so as to enable him to succeed in his efforts to attain salvation from sin and its direful effects . " XIV . We believe that our Lord has truly revealed a future state of immortal and eternal happiness for his faithful followers , and a fearful state of justly apportioned retribution for all who wilfully reject his offers of pardon and acceptance .
" XV . We believe in the resurrection of the dead and a future judgment , when Christ shall come in his own glory , and the glory of his Father , to give to every one according to his works . " Do these principles , " asks the writer , while he tells us , and rightly , that the catalogue might easily be enlarged , " constitute ' a very small portion of the gospel' ? Can it be properly said of those who hold these views that ' their system embodies little but those principles of false philosophy which the Apostle condemns' ? Are these the parts of ' a system of not
believing' ?" In these questions Mr . Duffield replies to some of the thousand-and-one unjust charges of his opponents—adversaries We should have said , for such , notwithstanding Mr . Duffield ' s expressed wish that he and those who differ from him should discuss rather than contend , have the persons , who have entered into the lists , shewed themselves to be . It is not our intention to exhibit these stale calumnies , though the manner in which Mr . Duffield meets them , relieves them of somewhat of their usual tediousness . The charges and misrepresentations of his adversaries , Mr . D . has contrived to answer in a few pithy notes , so that the text of his pamphlet , " Unitarianism a System
of pure Gospel Truth , " exhibits an uninterrupted and systematical view of our principles and arguments , together with a confutation of the doctrines of reputed orthodoxy . Mr . Duffield is fairly entitled to the praise of being an excellent disputant . His knowledge of the points on which the controversy hinges , we have rarely seen equalled , while there is both in the matter and the style of his arguments very much that indicates an intimate knowledge of the Scriptures , of the best writers on the subject , and a mind of no ordinary powers . He carries on the discussion with the precision of a
mathematician , without the coldness , and with the zeal of a lover of truth , combined with the mildness of one conscious of having a good cause to handle . In one thing certainly he is sure of a victory , for were his adversaries as mild as they are fierce , and as candid as they are disingenuous , they could not surpass the Christian-like temper which prevails through what he has written . We recommend his " Unitarianism a System , " &c , to our Tract Societies , and to those who wish to see the merits of the con * troversy condensed into a nut-shell .
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480 Thorrie Unitarian Controversy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/48/
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