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    "his Two Sermons and his Appendix would alone etfectuaHy demolish . Let him continue " to make the utmost allowance for prejudices either inherited or acquired / ' nor forget that sortie prejudices may cleave to himself ; let him aim at being just to Mr . Belsham , nor in one ana the same

    sentence admit his sincerity and conscientiousness , and speak of supposed artifices ' , 6 f which he is incapable ! Frotn erfors of judgihent , from the kindred infirmities which are the lot pf all uninspired men , that excellent person claims no exemption : but he loves aad values Truth so well , he has such a discernment of her

    character , arid feells so powerfully her genuine influence , that he cannot practise any thing like deceit and artifice , In vindicating her pretensiotis . ^ To the reasonings of this instructive writer and venerable man we may

    libt always subscribe : in his expositions we may not always copcur . Yet there is scarcely any department of theological literature in which he has not laboured with advantage and success . In none perhaps aoes he so much excel as the illustration add

    defence of the evidences of natural ahd revealed religion . * Of this we speak , in particular , because his services here demand the gratitude of Christians of every denomination . Here the impartial reader may apply to him the language of J . A . Ernesti , ^ concerning the great and amiable and

    * Ma& . Repos . Vol . H . I 1 , 1 . 206 , &c . f Opusc . Theol . 477 .

    " calumniated" Grotius : ' •* — fateor me indign&ri cum pro ho mine incredUfo vituperari audio ., qui veritatem reKgionis Christiana * inimitabili libello demonstraverit . " N .

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    ( h 6 w Solved into " The British and Foreign UtrtforTatt Asso&itfcpin , * ' ) hf which foreign tms&ioriary bbjfccjfe are contemplated , or that doubt the fitness of India as a field of Unitarian labour , we earnestly recotn mend this judicious ,

    spirited and truly Christian discourse , which abounds with information relating to the theological state of our Indian possessions , and with arguments to shew that a prudent zeal for the spiritual welfare of our Indian fellow-subjects is an imperative duty . Mr . Welibeloved ' s text is the

    account of the vision to Paul of the man of Macedonia ^ praying- him to come over and help them , Acts xi . 9 . A dear opening of the sense of the pas * sa ff e prepares the ; preachers way for laying down the principle of Christian missionary benevolence , which he proceeds to apply to the particular case before him .

    He suggests some reasons for Unitarians having been hitherto less active in missionary schemes than some other sects—as , that they do hot fed the same impelling motive as those that believe thett unless mankind hold

    a particular faith they must perish everlastingly — that tney have felt doubtful whether Providence had yet called them to such exertions , seeing the little success attendant on the

    labours of their more active brethrenthat they do not possess to any large extent the resources which are iiecessary to the effectual support of foreign

    missions , and find at home objects which they deem of at least equal importance and requiring no small degree of exertion—and that it is neither unnatural nor inexcusable if

    Unitarians have been restrained from eng-aging in foreign missions , l > y the certain expectation of vehement and unceasing opposition from those that might be lftfeouring in the same field , Uf&n this i ^ j topic he says ,

    u A aalssionary in a foreign land , engages , even under the most favourable auspices , 4 n an undertaking of extreme difficulty and dauger : au undertaking which requires , every day and every hour ,

    the spirit of a martyr :, an undertaking which cannot be carried on without the willing s&criftce of personal ease and comfort ; without much patient endurance of opposition and of itisult , if pot of actual persecution and suffering ; without a meek submission to all the inort » -

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    && R ^^ yw ^^ B ^ maiwed s Sertnbn ' in iM » f CdicvUtu VhapeL

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    Art . II . —u 4 Sermony preached on Sunday " , Jan- 23 , 1825 , to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters ,

    in St . Saviour gate * York , in aid of a Subscription for the Erection of a Unitarian Chapel in Calcutta . By C . Wellbeloved . 8 vo . pp . 66 . . York printed ; and sold by Long * man and Co ., London . 2 * . r'l X ) those that question the pro-JL priety of the late change % i < the constitution of " The Unitarian Fund , " —r » ~ n - - i 1 r - ~ i - " - | T "~ n p- i | - i — i -

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/36/