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£$$ ceptury , Mr . J . Holland ' s serfliojis were published , they w . ere stigmatized ji > the Monthly Review as i ? ioral es ^ ajs ,, but if it he con * .
sidered , that they were , among ihe fi rsX productions of a youthful J ^ incJ , sj ^ Mten with the beauties of the Sooratic moral philosophy ^ jde § jrou § to imbibe ^ and transfuse
it& spirit , a » 4 to shew how it was $ tljl more refined and improved by Christian eihiQSr tbfey may fte $ eryed ^ J )^ rjwMf ) in the highest class of discourses
recpmmendmg evapgelical duties . These volumes too contain one sermon expressly on the example of Christ , in which the author has avowed his views Jto fre tl ^ ose ^ which have since been deemed the essence of Jp \ v Arianism . How far these
!? jew £ migjit have t > een changed , pf vyV ^ t otj * er modes pf instruction tjie \ yrijer might fcaye adopted , if be . h # d been t j * e pastor for apy & . fjgtfc pf time , ja ai ? y' p ^ wticuW qp ^ re ^ tipi ^ or If he had lived be ^ ppd tjie primp of life , it is invr pp 4 ^ ible jtp diS £ GVe * and ux ^ ieces , of
Sf Wf .. % 9 > iTO » £ W e . JM ^ fty Mr , P ^ iljp Hollaqd ' s sjera > Qn& also are QW moral s . pjijejp tft , bi » f wf ul ^ t nope , 9 $$ fa& ftxvntltfyt % View to Cbristi ^ t y , $ muf rev el ation ^ . nd a future &tate , th ^ 4 p ctrine , that $$ the
J ^ s u ^ xy ^ e ^^ h , who rose frgng . tl } £ d ( ead , is expressly aJad p % rtipul ^|* ly considered * t ^ e subj ^^ of |{ he personality oi the Holy S ^ ri | is most , in ^ g ^ rtially diac us ^ ed a ^ refff ^ A ^ , aoijliq tbe ctwger ojgi ^ e c ^^ ct ^ r of the Christian
pre ^ phei ^ sparqely q . topic relative to t ( he ^ authority au 4 religion of tK ^ 3 criptutre 3 i $ left untqpctied ^ If Jjt' ^ . f aijd ^ tkqff tl ^ e se 4 |^ PQ ! M ^ s . \ T P ^^ IS ^ M ff >* . the ; § tw 4 y thanfc ^ the pul p P it > fpr welL ^ dUr c ^ j * Wi «?^ piW * i ai > , < i refined
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mincjls , than for the illiterate , they have at least , in subordination to the Bible furnished a source , whence those with oxore popular talents have drawn , or may draw , the waters of eternal life .
No one , however , who ha $ perused the sermons published by Mr . Turner , of Wakefieid , will hesitate to allow , that they are in every just sense as truly and slrictly evangelical in style , manner gad sentiment , as the posthumous discourses of his friend Mr .
Oq these grounds therefore , and from the consideration of other circumstances peculiar to royself , which have enabled me to hear
more ministers preach , than some , who a ^ e constantly engaged in the same office themselves , I conclude Mr * Wright ' s charge not to be well-ioundfid , or not to be gene * rally applicable .
When Dr . Priestley first avowed himself to be what is now called a Unitarian * lie did not know jnore thaa three or four of bis ministerial brethren , who held the
saroe sentiments * Of these , who wepe npt decided Trinitarians , the greater pan were Ariaas , whose congregations were of a mixed
nature . The consequence was , that s 6 me of these joined Metho *? disls of different descriptions , ^|> 4 others remained in tbobe socielief ^ which are now called Unitari ^ w *
Wbilsi the iaa . iuisters in the laU ter were themselves engage d i « the l ^ horiou ^ process of theological iuqqiry , and unwilling without full conviction to surrender thm
pecflliar senUmeuts of their lore ? , fathers ; instead of directly at- ' tackiog th « prej ^ dice ^ of their U&& irtforqi ^ d people , thcey jiUdgMit a . wiciej : plan w * 44 *« ie to t ^ tiiM
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On a P < tss # ge an Jf r * Wright ' s Journal . $ * i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1813, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2427/page/31/
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