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    display indifference or lukewarmness on such a subject , or who will not be at all times ready by conversation , by the press , and above all by his example , to give a " reason for the hope that is in him , " and to " count all things but loss for the excellency of 1

    Christianity . ' If such conduct constitutes " cruelty and baseness / ' and we are on this account to be held up to the world as ' * cowards , whose conduct , " in defending Christianity , is " so shocking that it is impossible for language to be found sufficiently expressive of the deep detestation and horror ' of Infidels : if this is to be

    vile , I most ardently hope our resolution will be , yet to he more vile ; * and that the universal , the firm reply of the defenders of Christianity will be , " We know and are sure that Jesus is the Christ , the Son of the living God , and that he only has the words of eternal life . "

    Let the vain world pronounce it shame , And fling * their scandals on thy cause , We come to boast our Saviours name , And make our triumphs in his cross . With joy we tell the scoffing * ag-e , He that was dead has left his tomb 5 He lives above their utmost rage , And we are wailing 1 till he come .+

    BENJAMIN FLOWER . P . S . Just as I had finished my letter , I received a piece of information , which I cannot but take the earliest opportunity of conveying to your correspondents Chiron and Thomas , in hope of its somewhat calming

    the agitations of their troubled hearts . Infidels , instead of " having their hands tied behind their backs / ' and in spite of" threats of fine , tortures , impmonment and death , or of" great gags being thrust into their mouths , "

    are opening a new battery against Christianity . In the prospectus of a periodical work , shortly to make its appearance , " The disciples of nature , the followers of Pyrrho , and every class of Latitudinarians , " are invited to " favour the Editors with their sentiments / ' Chiron and Thomas jfiay therefore , with due courage , bring forth all their « strong and unanswerable arguments" against the Uxristian system ; and , I am " sure , " li they confine themselves to argu-¦¦

    a- — . « n » i < mm ~* & —v . 1 - ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ * 2 Sam . vi . 22 . + Watts .

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    ments of such a description , they will be most cordially welcomed by the Editors , and equally " sure" they will not be any great intruders on the patience of their readers !

    SCRUTATOR sympathizes with those Unitarian ministers , who may most emphatically say , " If in this life only we have hope , we are of all men most miserable . ' They were evidently not actuated by the love

    of the world to engage in their profession , but by the love of truth , and by their firm belief in the pure doctrines of the gospel . The money which was expended on their education would have been sufficient to

    introduce them into trade , in which they might have succeeded as well as their neighbours . Besides , they sacrificed all that they possessed , and all the property of their wives in propagating what they believed to be

    divine truth . They were never chargeable with concealing or contradicting their uniform sentiments . They passed through many difficulties , in persevering in thHr ministry , without being moved by the enmity and malicious clamour of the orthodox , or the

    trimming instructions of sonie who called themselves their friends , and continued to old age in enforcing upon their audiersees the love of God and of their fellow-creatures , and an unreserved submission to all the

    doctrines of Christ . Is it not hard then , that they should be left destitute , and forced to relinquish their ministry , at a time of life , when they could not apply to any secular calling , for

    copying the example of Christ in declaring that there is only One True God , the Father of all ? A nd is it not strange and wonderful , that those who call themselves Unitarians should

    totally neglect them ? Much money is expended in training up young men to be Unitarian ministers . This is well done . But , would it not be equally laudable , to make some provision for

    those who have spent the whole of their lives in advancing this doctrine , and not suffer the 111 to perish , or languish in extreme want and wretchedness ?

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    Case of aged Unitarian Ministers . —Bibliotheca Peirsoniana . g&

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    JBihliotlieea Peirsoniana . f 11 HE literary world are much anrms-_ JL ed with a catalogue of the Library of the Rev . Thomas Peirson , D . D . Senior Minister of the Established English

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/31/