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    attempt to shew the contrary are the subjecta of Diabolus , and will behold hell in mourning for their supposed impotent and unsuccessful endeavours . What is this but the intolerance of

    Popery without its magnificence and power ? Whether Calvinism do not bear some other marks of Antichrist , or if not , how far those who profess it agree with him , from whom they have derived their name , or in any great numbers with one another , it

    may be their part to consider or declare . But whilst they style themselves , or are styled , Antimonians , high or low , strict or moderate Calvinists , Evangelical Christians , &c , and find it difficult to unite in man y

    sentiments of apparent or supposed moment , their encroachments , whatever they may be , in such scattered and discordant bodies , cannot well be regarded as very alarming . Their house is divided against itself , and they may do better to look at home , than

    with the wizard wand of defaming detraction , to raise a mist of groundless prejudices , from the supposed errors of individuals , against arguments which it is hot so easy for them to confute * For though they may , by this unworthy craft , by these mean artifices ,

    still longer maintain the empire of what by many is deemed superstition ; though they may thus add to the genuine doctrines of the gospel ; they may providentially still preach what

    they cannot deny , and thus like pioneers prepare the way for that purer and better system , which , according to the Unitarian faith , is alone sanctioned by the Holy Scriptures , If this faith be rather eclectic

    than differential , it may not require all that ardour of overflowing zeal , which seems necessary for the spread of what it supposes to b £ mysterious and unscriptural peculiarities . But though there may not be one article of this faith , which even the friends to the

    Evangelical Magazine do not allow , whatever additions they may make , it may be justly questioned , whether any of them would subscribe a mite towards the support of such general ,

    uncontroverted and incontestible principles . How far then , after soliciting ^ for assistance in their exertions , Wmeh they have often obtained front the generosity and candour of those * whom they miscall Socinians , it is

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    handsome or right for them to report and spread the private , confidential , misrepresented conversation of tWe unsuspicious , credulous , deceived , imprudent or sanguine , as if it were an Argument in their favour , is another problem proposed for their solutioni

    Liberal and candid minds would pass over the probably exaggerated errors of it might be , injudicious , too ardent and zealous advocates , to attend to the arguments for their cause . How that cause was defended

    at Wigan , more than twenty-sevefr years ago , whether with temper , candour , ability , or with what other es « sentials of a Christian spirit , may better be learned from the Letters to the inhabitants of that town , on the great subjects of theological controversy ,

    than by anonymous or other communications , containing epistles or statements of deceased persons , respecting transactions or conversations , it may be of confidential , too sanguine , though deluded and misstated imprudence ,

    which have long ago been eSaced from the memory , which could only be the errors of too ardent and zealous youtli , and which are not , therefore , either evidences or arguments for dr against the sentiments in question . J . H .

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    On Religions Fictions . 553

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    T ) uldnfield 9 Sir , June 10 th , 1 & 18 . IT is somewhere said by Boswell , that Dr . Johnson had once intended to devote a portion of his time to an inquiry into the amount of fiction formerly existing , and yet made use of as common stock iti works of

    imagination . This , or a similar undertaking , has lately engaged the attention of Mr . Dunlop . Give me leave to point out another region in which fiction has not been less exu- * berant , and in which its Protean qualities are yet , in one form or another , receiving the daily homage of every Christian denomination .

    The Church of Rome has , at various periods , been compelled to yield the ground she previously occupied , to the progress of the Reformation * But , perhaps , in no instance has she quitted the contest , without leaving behind her as much of her torn mantle

    as would envelope the limbs of those antagonists by whom she became subdued * It would be no uninteresting subject for your pages to aacer-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 553, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/17/