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    846 Critical Notices,, --** Theological*

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    Religious Prejudice Overcome. *

    an author wlhose name is involved in as much mystery as its contents * but borrowing- that of Athanasius . If common sense be discarded , and men embrace their teligkm without thought , doctrines as discordant as Hindooistn , Mahonietanfsm , and Christianity , may be blended together , and cordially deceived : but if they read the Scriptures as the Bereans did , with a desire to understand thern tnen the doctrine of the Trinity and all its adjuncts must inevitably t > e scattered as by the winds of heaven : neither the popularity of a c ? reed nor the high reputation of a preacher who advocates it , will be of sufficient . weight to bear down the plain conclusions of an honest understanding . r errors of the Roman Catholic , the Mussulman , or the Heathen * arise from implicit belief and a dread of the consequences of inquiry * from a recumbency on long usage and established forms and modes of worship . "—Po 36 .

    Let tl > ose whose opinions are unstable ., or who are not sure but that their stability is false 9 take the word of one who knows not only that peace is the reward of honest inquiry , but that the worst doubts and fears and struggles which departing error inflicts , are to be preferred to the most flattering security she can offer * With such an example as the present before us none can pretend that it is ever too late to seek after truth , ever too late to use the powers which God confers and preserves ,, or to cultivate the understanding and cherish those affections which shall never die .,

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    Art . I . —Exertions for the Diffusion of T ? 'ulh Recommended . A Sermon , [ occasioned by an Article on the State of Unitarianism in the Eclectic Review , No . XXII . N . S ., ~ preached in the Old Jewry Chapel , ' < Jewih Street , Sunday , October 31 , 1830 . By David Davison , A . M , London : R . Hunter ^ , St . Paul ' s Churchyard . Pp . 32 . 1830 .

    "VV ^ E beg Leave make our gratel acknowledgments to the Editor of the Eclectic Review for having occasioned the composition and publication of this valuable seriaott * Let the uniutended goo <^ be feclrt > oed as a set-off against wftikJtaver he . might intend that was not

    Mr , Daviaorrs text is James iv . 17 , ' * Therefore to him that knoweth to do £ oodp ( ai }< i | docjth . it . not , to him it is sin ;" it tej ? t which incapable of very wide applu ^ tAOtfyk We fern that many Trinitariiiiia , aa we Imiow that many Urutari-; ms , have much occasion to profit by ifl ;

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    in what concerns their conduct towards each other . Their sins of omission are perhaps of a different description ; arising in the one case frojn a deficiency of zeal , and in the other from a deficiency of charity . The sermon commences with a very just and important observation : " One of the worst delusions whi < rli

    can affect the mind of a Christian is the impression that there is some value in what are called negative virtues . Matny persons suppose , that if they are not guilty of gross and flagrant sins , if they can manage to steer their course in such a manner as to escape public reproach or private scandal * they are very

    estimable characters , and have good ground for relying upon a favourable acceptance with the Father of mercies . This is , at the same time , a meany a selfish , and an irreligious feeling . It implies the absence of all generous and benevolesit affections towards our fellow-ereatuTes ,, is founded upon a very erroneous estimate of tlhe duties which tSie gospel requires , ami evinces a want of zeal for the honour

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 846, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/46/