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    attacks which Burns undauntedly made , oa * poor gapin % glow * rm , superstition / should have been prevented from appearing before the eyes of the polite , when the strong-tmt honest language of virtuous indignation against those sons of mammon who fir ^ t corrupted the poet , and then deserted

    him in the day of trouble , was not allowed a place in one of the most celebrated editions of the works of the northern luminary * Can such things be , and overcome us like a summer cloud , without our special wonder ? Aye , even so , for the age is evil and corrupt I But here are the lines :

    " « O Goudie ! terror of the Whigs , * Dread of * black coats aud reverend wigs , Soor bigotry on her last legs , Giriiin' looks back , Wishin' the ten Egyptian plagues - - ¦ - Wad seize you quick . '* Poor gapin ' , glow ' rin , superstition ,

    Waes me ! she ' s in a sad condition ; Fy , bring Black-Jock , her state physician , To see her ; Alas ! there ' s ground o * great suspicion She'll ne ' er get better .

    * Auld orthodoxy lang did grapple , But now she ' s got an unco ripple , Haste , gie her name up i' the chapel Nigh unto death ; See how she fetches at the thrapple * An' gasps for breath ,

    c Enthusiasm ' s past redemption , Gaen in a galloping consumption , Not a * the quacks , wi a * their gumption , Will ever mend her , Her feeble pulse gie ' s strong presumption , Death soon will end her .

    * " For the information of the readers of the Reflector , I would observe , that ¦ * the Whigs' mentioned , are not those whom au admirable writer has well defined to be * but' the fag-end of a Tory ;* but those uoble spirits who , in days gone by , dared to vindicate their rights as

    men , and made the mountains of Scotland the * strong holds of liberty , those *\ vho contended for what they deemed the purity of God ' s worship , in opposition to the mumtnery of a state . religion , an Actof-Parliameuj ; Christianity , the Cove * iiaiittus atid Caiueroniaus . "

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    142 On the Remission ef Situ .

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    « Tis you and Taylor * & tb ^ hief Wba are to blaJBK * for this mischief . But gin the Lou&s am fwks ga& fcave , A toona tar barrel An' twa red peats wvd send relief , An end tfce quarrel /**

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    Sir , Fen&attce . 1 OBSERVE [ in your Repository XVII . pp . 666—669 ] soijiejjtrictures from your correspondent Mr . Acton , on my papers relating to the Remission of Sins . After very attentively considering all that he advanced , I am still decidedly of opinion , that

    the views which many Unitarians hold on this subject do not embrace the whole truth of Scripture . This , I think , the more to be regretted , on account of the prejudice which it excites against our name in the minds of other Christians . While they see us associating Jesus with our redemption in no other character than that of

    a prophet or martyr , they regard us as grossly ignorant of one of the leading features of the common salvation : and not , perhaps , without some apparent reason . Without all controversy it is the Scripture doctrine that Christ died for our sins , and that we are

    reconciled to God by the death of his Son . But are not many Unitarians very reserved on this subject ? And is it not a proof of their having abandoned the true sense of these expressions , that they employ them so little either in their writings or their pulpits ? I shall rejoice if I can , in any degree ,

    contribute to promote amongst us a grateful and frequent acknowledgment of the mode of redemption which Divine Wisdom appointed , convinced , that if rightly understood , it cannot possibly detract from the freeness of that Divine mercy in which ttie first purpose of redemption had its birth ,

    and wl ^ ich carried on the plan , through every succeeding step , to its glorious consummation . Nor can it justly t > e thought any-deficiency in the grace and mercy of the Judge of the world , if he deem it necessary to conduct his acts of forgiveness according to methods which exhibit peculiar features ,

    • " Dr . John \ Taylor , of -Norwich , whose admirable work on Original Si " * was probably the -caqse o £ Goldie ' s x&r uounciAg orthodoxy * " . _„ .... "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/14/