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Caleb , That is their excellence , and not the merit of tho 3 e who put forth , as the same thing , God ' s word and men's inventions . Ebion Adamson .
I excuse them not . The whole Christian world is disgraced and guilty so long as the Scriptures given to the people are known to vary , in any particular , from those written by the Apostles and Evangelists . The Church of England most disgraced and guilty , because this imperfect Version is her Version , and is upheld , as it could easily be amended , by her authority .
: Caleb . And they are Churchmen , too , by whom these efforts are made to set up the principle of exclusion , in all the Societies which have hitherto admitted of union . Ebion AdAmson . It is fitting that the fanatics of that corporation should sympathize with its Universities , and take up principles , as they took up men , when the Country and the Legislature had discarded them .
Elhanan . So in the serpent of bigotry , as in that of eternity , the head and the tail come together . Caleb . Why do not the would-be purifiers of the Bible Society attempt to purify their own Church , or else secede from it ? They are evidently hostile to Dissent , simply as Dissent . They want to break down every kind of union which gives strength to Nonconformity .
Elhanan . And of course to separate the rest from Unitarians , who , whatever their paucity of numbers , are the life and energy of Dissent on all questions of Religious Liberty . Ebion Adamson . Long be they the vanguard of those who battle in that cause ! And they may soon have to bestir themselves again , for Church Reform must follow State Reform . Barnabas .
I fear no such Reform as will much diminish sectarian hostility . That seems on the increase . The Church of Scotland has been anathematizing . Caleb . And the Rev . E . Irving has lost his boasted privilege of belonging to an Establishment , and finds himself a Dissenter , without any previous notice of the fact in the Apocalypse .
Ebion Adamson . The excommunication is only conditional . It is contingent on his admitting the authorship of the works under his name in which this mighty quiddity is taught of the natural sinfulness of Christ's human nature . Elhanan . The Church of Scotland h consistent . She has a creed , and she enforces it . Moreover , she tests morality as well as faith . Ebion Adamson . And therein is much purer than her gay , proud , wealthy , conniving Sister
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434 [ Ebion Adamson and his Friends .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/52/
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