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    trinal kind in the pulpit ; any refutation of Trinitarianisra ; but I would just remind him thai ; the apostles , in their public labours , were not sp scrupulous in attack * Nig the erroneous opinions of their Bearers , Pcter ; explained his ideas of the nature and character

    of Christ , more pointedly and plainly ,, in his first address to the Jews , than a Presbyterian minister would in forty years ; he

    scrupled , not to assert the simple humanity of his master ; and Paul exhorted Timothy to preach the great doctrine , that " there was one God , and © ne mediator

    between God and meny the man Christ Jesus . " I don ' t know what " eminent men" are referred to-,., by the " Rational Christian /' but there are very few of eminence among the dissenters who have not been controversial writers .

    Lardner Priestley , Lindsey , ^ nce , Taylor , Farmer , Wakefield , Kenrick , and many others , whose names will suggest themselves to your . correspondent , were all con * troversialiste , and it argues no very

    extraordinary degree of respect for the labours of these great men , to give them no higher title than * party squabbles and unedifying speculations . " While attacking the errors of orthodoxy , and

    dispelling the mists of ignorance and bigotry , they imagined they were promoting the cause of their .. great master , and displaying to the world the unclouded glory * md peerless excellence of his king * tlom * > But I . am afraid they

    lyould not be accounted worthy disciples of the ** pi 4 school . " I should be glad tb ; :. fc * $ . itifprmed what the disciple pf this .. * f olii school" means by those , curious points , " teamdtf i : di £ 6 if ssk > nts *' aad " unedifywg speculations /'

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    which he holds . ii £ such contempt and which , he says , make some few of the Socinian Congregations better attended than those where practical religion js almost the only point attended to * " I suppose he regards the cloctrines of the Trinity , trftnsubstan , tiatio % the eternity of hell tormetvts , original sin , satisfaction , and other of those corruptions of Christianity which have , for centuries * , been

    promulgated by the majority of the Christian worldy as the doctrines of the Gospel * , th € se l sup * pose , he regards as u curious

    speculations , " und any attempt to strip the religion of Jesus of these disguises and deformities , he would designate by the appella-r tion of a iQ learned discussion ; doubtless , therefore , if his Jidvice could be followed , Christian teachers and hearers would trouble

    themselves no further about them . But , sir , we have reason to thank God that the apostles of old , and the venerable host of Reformers and Confessors of later times , were of a different opinion ; they did not regard error and truth as of

    equal importance j they laboured with unceasing diligence in spreading the pure cjoctrine of the gospel , far and wide ; where they found error : they attacked it ; where they saw ignorance tjbey

    infbrim > dit ; wher ^ they discovered hypocrisy they expoired it ; and their labours were blessed \ n being effective to the pulling down ilpe strong holds of ignorance , ^^^

    bigotry and prejudice . No doctrine which iclegraides the majesty of the Deity , which has a tendency to mafc& iiiit ^ appear eitfter ilnj ust , ipri | iel 9 ( -pr tyrannical , can fye harmless , Tnlth of . all kinds is important ; - but religious' truth of infinitely the greateat importance ~

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    < J < J On the Decline of Presbyterian Congregations .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/18/