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embraced htiae Doc tar * * phiiwaphicad tcpets , some , k m&y be , swayed by Xhe iBUthorky of such a name , and rrrany , charmed by the comprehension of his views , or convinced by the power of his arguments . , It ought however to be known and
acknowledged , that the simple form of Christianity whieh is -maintained by Unitaadans , requires no concomitant metaphysical creed , and that whether the name philosophical Christian be
given them by enemies , or acknow-1 edged by friends , its application is not appropriate . . Among them as among other Christians there may be men , who are philosophers as well as
Christians , but they know nothing of philosophical Christianity . It is unnecessary to burthen their religious belief with the difficulties that may appear to be yoked with any system of moral , or mental philosophy . Let the will of man be free ; to vindicate the
hypothesis from absurdity is not more incumbent upon them than upon •< rther men , for any thing that they receive or reject as Unitarians . Let ievery act of the will be necessary ; ~ that it is so is not more implied in their belief , dbhan in that © f every
other » body of Christians ; and if this hypothesis appear to be at variance with the moral nature and < resjf > cn&siiwlity of man , they are not obliged •* o Reconcile them tey -any thing in ^ their creed , which distinguishes it -from -dihe orthodox faith . « I 1 ' may fee
* tt « e , that p hilosophical necessity is sdemonetrabie by reason ; it may aiso ^ je ttiae , tbat our ; ' . moral feelings are -All $ t $ oh tas they - should be on the su pipttsifci 4 f #$ riatrwe $ are . strictly speaking £ he ? authors -of onr own actions , or
t ; hat ^ they have their origin within us , independently of ^ determination from -without ; . and that they are such as they-shoiald not be on the supposition -ttoat > we * act « r * ly a 9 > we are acted upon , -and that ; thowgn agents in namevwe aare * iniiatct - but instruments . 11 * may foe trere , > that though we reason thus it-is iiot thtta we feel in < the
conscious-Jiuss < : of > godd <« or evil . We < fetel sel-ffApprobation , ai * d disapprobation ; we -fefcl cofnplacency arid remoree ; w « afeel as ifctis uiglitwe shoald feel , if < we * are independent agents . Either there--fore otir moral < fee 4 ings , or our -logiekl fcioiK ^ iskwis ^ ire ^ wrcmg ; 'but whether the error' 4 je in our s feelings or our
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reasoning , m ^ the conscieusnx ^ « i in theopViilosoph y , let ^ dthe philosopher determine .. The Christian , and mope than all others , the iUnitarian Chmfrian , may , if ; he will , be ¦¦ , a spectator of the field without Bauigling intke strife . ^ . ¦ , ¦ L .
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> . •_ M « aaMHa ****— - - ¦' . ¦¦¦ * Sib , Uovez , Jtm . \ 0 , ift : i 7 ^ ON reading the ietter signed A . F . relative to the Yonck . application , i n your last N udoafeer ' , ( -Vol . ! XI . rpw 7165 ) I was led : to the coneioaion that your Correspondent wasveither not . hrought up m-the true Ujriitanati school or that he ^ vas not rauch-ao
quainted with the old Geaeral 1 JBap ^ tistbody . It has not unfrequently been ac » knowledged that fche Unitarian society in its infancy was nursed -in the * cradle of the General Baptist rcea * - nection , that itsjmissionaries are ^ crtd
have been with scareely an exceptknr , General Baptist nainisters , -that r * the Gei jeral Baptists have not ; only preached and otherwise promoted Uni tarian principles , but have and do many of them conjtribute . to ks funds , and that even . those societies < whion
hold wkth what is . called / strict -communion , are in the habit of inviting and receiving Unitarian miniftters , ( and those too . who reject : adult > Baptism ) into their families , societies and
pulpits . If this which has so txfteta been . admitted by respectable Paedo baptist Unitarians be tcuey arid if wiih , the < knowledge of these circumstances ^ A . F . shall vadhcre to his former
resolution , will not his conduct savour of something unknown to the ' ieniagktened , liberal i and t -hi ghly ^ re 3 peetab > e body to which he ptfoles 6 es * Ofbelor |^^ M « % P . > $ . A ^ l ? . is referred ^ tOsariartirW which appealed in the Repository for June , 1815 , Vol . 3 C . p . 32 O . - ^
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Sir , Plytnautk i tNov . l&lfy . IT > is inatural for men % vho eftjd | r . bat i few privileges ¦ to be 'Mt&tc&fttl v over those new . Actuated < hy 1 th 4 s princij ^ e , I went a short timeain < se ^ o - ^ proffer nay vote for a county ^ m ^ tttber * in the ^ character of a £ > ment ( og mims * - ternvho receives the Tent of a Hfpefehoitkestate . ! 'M y vote ^ vvas r ^ eeted vas tJ ~ expected it would be : but' f ^ gained what I went for , - a perfec t- knoxvlodge - *
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36 On ike Right qfsIiisamdif ^ Mink ^ Election .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 36, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/36/
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