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SOME REMARKS ON THE RELIGIOUS WRITINGS OF THE LATE REV. JOHN NEWTON7
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Extracted and abridged from " Religion et Christianisme , Recueit Pzriodique " Published at Nismes by MM . Fontaines and Vincent . We do not , in general , bring sufficiently enlarged ideas to the reading of religious books , ^ very one fastens upo n the writers whose manner of viewing things and setting them forth he himself approves ; their books he opens with pleasure , congratulates himself upon their good points , closes his indulgent eye to their faults , and seems to have sought rather ior the confirmation than the
improvement of his own notions in reading them . As to other books , of a somewhat different tendency , either they are slightly read / or neglected altogether . We soon take offence at ideas we do not ourselves entertain , and this is the chief fruit we extract from them . IChus-minds become narrowed , parties straiten themselves , and conclude by losing the power of understanding or bearing with one another .
And yet , who is there that can say , I possess truth unmingled with error ? ' Who that has viewed religious questions under . every possible change of position ? Who that has nothing useful or important" to learn ? If those readers who love clear , wellarranged arguments , would try to read without antipathy books in which relig ious feeling and practical applications of doctrine predominate , might they not see some things in a new point of view ? And if readers of such books as those last-mentioned
ivould ^ ot so ye might not they gain some good ideav ^ n large their own views , and learn to express them more correctly ? The study of superior books , whatever may be the school from whence they emanate ^ ought to enlighten and extend the limits of the spirit , if they are
of any utility . The author most opposed to our own particular views , if he has but thought and observation , may make us observe facts which have hitherto escaped us , or . the hearings . of those facts upon which we have imperfectly reflected j and often we may discover a foundation of truth eminentl y assistant to our faith , under the very form which had at first repulsed us .
AVe cannot but think the works of John Newton a good subject of study for those who are inclined to listen fairly to a religious man , whatever his theological opinions may be . For this reason we have selected them as the theme of a few remarks .
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Some Remarks On The Religious Writings Of The Late Rev. John Newton7
SOME REMARKS ON THE RELIGIOUS WRITINGS OF THE LATE REV . JOHN NEWTON 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1833, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2623/page/1/
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