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    rectkm are put in italics , to mark the heresy of believing that the words which Christ spake were not his own , but the Father ' s ; and the sentence which we have put in italics is omitted . It is difficult to say why , unless to give a false impression of the Unitarian notion of the Messiah ' s mission . The second quotation is to shew that the book reviewed inculcates a mere scheme , of what is called * natural religion / " It stands thus :

    v The New Testament informs us , if we are virtuous , that we shall meet our friends again , enjoy their society , live under the same perfect government , and be members of the same heavenly family . "—P . 24 . The reviewer ' s italics again rebuke a heresy , the hope of going to heaven if we are virtuous . " This , too . is "

    erroneous doctrine , " only needing to be pointed out for an orthodox parent to shudder at it . Mere naturalism ! For that is the charge , aud if there was little discretion in supporting it by citing a direct appeal to the authority of the New Testament , there might be some in stopping short of the remarks which almost immediately follow :

    "Jesus himself hath said , ' Because I live , ye shall live also / Christ will come again at the last day , and at his awakening summons the numerous dead of every country , clime , and tongue , will rise from their graves and come to judgment ; to the pious and good he will say , ' Come , ye blessed ;* and to the unrighteous and ungodly , Depart , ye cursed . ' Then the virtuous will be received into

    heaven , meet their long-lost friends , and be happy for ever and ever . " H . But what will become of the wicked ? ** F . They will be driven into outer darkness to endure torment which it is impossible for me to describe . Banished from the presence of God and the glory of his power . .

    " H . I hope I shall be among the happy number of those whom the Saviour will receive into heaven . "—P . 25 . Citation third :

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    " The message which God sent to man by Jesus Christ , was , that if men would leave off . doing wrong , and learn to do right , God would take them to heaven after they died ; but that if they did wrong , and were not sorry for it , they would go to hell . "—P . 53 . The last clause of the sentence is suppressed by the reviewer . One motive is sufficiently obvious in the imperfect view

    thus given of the Unitarian doctrine of retribution . But there was another . He was preparing to make the following accusation , which could not have been made in the face of a fair quotation , and which is bolstered up by an unvarnished false * hood . Our readers will know , though

    his , as he hoped , might not , that Jhe words cited from the Improved Version are not a reading , instead of the text , but merely a note , comment , or paraphrase , appended to it in the usual form of such expositions :

    " This so-called ' Faithful Friend' denominates what the Scriptures call * the damnation of hell , ' * by the mild and purgatorian phrase of being ' duly punished * in a future state : much as the * Improved Version / instead of - ' He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved , but he that believeth not shall be damned , ' mildly reads , * He who professes faith in me shall be admitted to the privileges of the Christian community ; he who does not believe shall remain under all the

    disadvantages of a heathen state . ' "—Christian Observer , p . 580 . There is , besides , an imputation of laxity in the statement of Christian duties , founded solely on an allusion to gathering flowers on a Sunday . Blessed tenderness of conscience ! But to strain at a gnat , and to swallow a camel , have always been congenial operations , How it is that a religious periodical should allow itself to be made the vehicle

    of such garbling and falsification we cannot understand . The calumnies which it is endeavoured thus to support may be ascribed to an honest though blind bigotry . The mode of supporting them cannot be associated with any thing honest .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1829, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2568/page/56/