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    Ten ! ' I lay a stress upon this reserve , because it repels the Suspicion of enthusiasm ; for enthusiasm is wont to expatiate upon the condition of the departed above all other subjects , and

    with a wild particularity . It is , moreover , a topic which is always listened to with greediness . The teacher , therefore , whose principal purpose is to draw upon himself attention , is sure to be full of it . The Koran of Mahomet is half made up of it . "

    Having-, in the Memoirs of the Rev . William Richards , furnished the reader at some length with my opinion of the employments of the heavenly

    world , I conclude with a fine apostrophe of Dr . Isaac Watts to the inhabitants of heaven : — - * Hail , blessed spirits above , who have passed your state of trial well ! You have run the

    laborious race under many burdens , and you have received the prize ! You have fought with mighty enemies ; you have overcome a thousand difficulties , and you enjoy the crown ! No more shall you complain of the mixture of error with your

    knowlegdeno more shall you groan under the perplexities of thought , the tumults of passions , the burden of indwelling iniquity—nor cry out because of oppressing enemies and sorrows ! The hour of trial i 3 finished . You have

    been sincere and faithful in your imperfect services , and you are arrived at the world of perfection . " J . EVANS .

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    defied . In charity to them , as well to myself I shall be brief . It chagrins me then to the quick , let rue at once avow , to find Unitarianism so invariably associated not only by disingenuous , but liberal minds ,

    with the denial of the divinity of Christ . Not for myself alone , but in the name , surely of not a few of ray fellowscriptural Christians , I fling back the charge , as , in its universality , a libel

    on the creed . By Unitarianism , I understand only a positive appellation for Anti-Trinitarianism . What , therefore , I deny , and only what I deny , as a Unitarian , is , that there is any God but the God and Father of our

    Lord Jesus Christ . To the man who concurs with me , ex animoy upon this point , whatever other doctrine he may deem apostolic , I tender the right hand of fellowship , as my Unitarian brother , in that common Lord and Saviour . I certainly believe as little that St . John or St . Paul were

    Tritheists , under the name of Trinitarians or any other , as that they were Athanasians or Mahometans : but , if I were asked what tenet more than another these Unitarians , in the only honest and intelligible sense of the word , would have repudiated as unchristian , I should not hesitate one moment to

    reply , " In its utter nakedness the simple humanity of Christ . " That , as Christians , they still worshiped , and as uniformly worshiped the name Jehovah they had worshiped as Jews , I have no more doubt , than I have , that most of their professed imitators ,

    throughout Christendom , worship a quite different being in his stead under a correspondent appellation : but that when now , for the first time , they to his glory confessed his Son , Lord , they meant no more by the title than their merely human master , the son

    of Joseph , their fellow-mortal , prophet of Galilee , I could no more persuade myself from their writings , than I could that they bowed the knee to that Lord in prayer as the Almighty , or invoked him solely by the half hour together , as the compeer of his Lord

    of heaven and earth . Mysterious as is undoubtedly their Clirist to my apprehension , so mysterious that in designating him , I should never but employ their own mystic terms , I cannot but perceive that they attributed divinity to his person , aad recognized in

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    Mr . Clarke on the Exclusive Use of the Name " Unitarian . " 279

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    Mr . Clarke on the Exclusive Use of the Name 4 C Unitarian . " li stating any doctrine in a confession of faith wiih a greater degree of

    precision than the Scriptures have done , is in effect to say , that the Scriptures have wot stated it with precision enough : in other words , that the Scriptures are not sufficient . "—Paley ' s Defence of the Considerations , &c .

    ' If any man trust to himself that he is Christ ' s let him of himself think this agaiu , that as he is Christ ' s , even so are we Christ ' s . —2 Cor . x . 7 . " Sir . OR

    l ^ reasons too mortifying even A for modesty to , do more than hint , I seldom or ever appear in your Pages under my proper name . But a dissentient from the great majority of my brethren , perhaps their accuser , a . sense of shame must be for once

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/23/