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      To the liditor of the JSlonthly Repository .

      siu , \ ^ Shrewsbury . Permit me , Sir , through the medium of your valuable Miscellany , to address myself to those among

      the Unitarian ministers , ( and I believe they are mdny , ) who have the spread of what they conceive to be gospel doctrines , and true Christian ' practice , among the poorer elates , warmly at heart .

      I think it will be generally allowed , that the sermons usually given in Unitarian chapels , are in language far too re fined for the comprehension of this part of the congregation : nor are the vices to

      which their condition in life renders them most liable , such as drunkenness , dishonesty , and lyiug , often even touched upon ; or if they are , it can be but slightly , in these elegant discourses . What hope then can there be , that their attention to religious doctrines will

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      be awakened , or their practice of Christian morality amended , by attendance upon public worship ! Yet the benefit of the unlearned is surely one great object of its institution . The higher ranks have various sources of information and improvement at all times open before them , but the poor have

      fewopportunities of instruction besides what they gain on a Sunday from their pastor ; but this might do much if it were well adapted to the purpose *

      I do not mean to propose that the style of preaching shall be completely changed , and all the excellent compositions from which the welL-informed and worthy

      receive instruction and delight , laid aside as useless in the pulpit ; but I do propose , and that most earnestly , that one animated , ardent and plain address should be made

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      Popular Preacning recommended to Unitarians . 321

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      for so many ages by r ralicsin , whose " works , " according to a note of Gray , are still preserved , jvnd his memory held in high veneration among his countrymen . ''

      I wish some of your intelligent readers , who are connected with ihe Principality , would inform us whether there are now any Christians in Wales who venerate

      Jaliesin as a divine , and adopt his theological opinions ; or if the system of Swedexiborg has made any progress among them . In the mean time accept this additional proof that there is nothing pew under the sun /' Your constant reader , QTIOSUS .

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      P . S . I might have mentioned on this subject those Christians ia the second century , whom their opponents called Patripassians , upon the supposition that they

      " believed the Father to have beea born , crucified , and died . " But Lardner has well shewn , that this was a false r inference , which Tertullian drew from the manner in which Praxeas , their chief , described the Father as dwelling in Ct

      the man Jesus , " and that they were proper Unitarians . See Lardner ' s Heretics , Art . Praxeas , -Works , ix . 496 .

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      POPULAR PREACHING RECOMMENDEP TO UNITARIANS ,

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/19/