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    free . And this do we love in the conduct of oar great Teacher , that he shamed Jewish bigotry by the parable of the good Samaritan , all heretic and idolater as he might be deemed ; that he silenced the worldly ambition and selfish contentions of his disciples by placing in the midst a little child to be their model ; that he rebuked the erring zeal which

    would have called dowu nre from heaven ; that he warned the assuming and the violent against oppressing and illtreating their fellow-servants ; and that he established a kingdom , not of this world , which is uot meat and drink , not pride , pomp , and power , but righteousness aud peace aud joy in the Holy Spirit /'—Pp . 5—7 .

    " Religious Liberty is so important because religion itself is inestimable . May these recollections , efforts , feelings , prospects , endear it the more to our hearts , and render more universal its dominion over our lives . Let it grow in us as we anticipate its growth in the earth . May the kingdom of God come within us , as we hope for its coming to

    all nations . Wishing to see a rich harvest of truth aud freedom , peace and charity abroad iu the world , may we have of that good seed sown in our hearts aud bearing fruit in our lives . Thus may we be preparing to join the free , exalted , and happy community of heaven . Little will it avail us that the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms

    of our God and of his Christ , if Christ reign not in our souls . This is our first concern with the gospel , extensive as are the public benefits which Qow from its subordinate influences . For it is the fruit of the tree of life , in the paradise of God , which is immortal happiness to the individual , though ' its leaves are for the healing of the nations . "'—P . 18 .

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    Art . V . — Unitarianism no Feeble and Conceited Heresy ; demonstrated in Two Letters to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin . By William Hamilton Drummond , D . IX London : Hunter . 1829 . Reason the Handmaid of Religion :

    a Sermon , preached before the Supporters of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , at their Annual Meeting , June JO , 1829 . By William Hamilton Drummond , D . D . London : Hunter . 1829 . Both these publications are calculated to sustain the deservedly high reputation

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    of their author , and are a valuable addition to the services which he has already rendered to the cause of Free Inquiry and Sacred Truth . They abound ia acute and forcible argument , and ia fearless and manly sentiment ; nor jis the candour of the Christian ever

    forgotten in the ardour of the Controversialist . They bear the stamp , which is so obvious on all Dr . Drummond ' s productions , of a vigorous and cultivated mind , animated by a fervent love of truth , and an eager desire to excite a similar feeling in others . His efforts are always directed towards engaging his hearers and readers in the pursuit of truth , not in endeavouring to influence them to the reception of his own opinions . He would have them search the

    Scriptures , not implicitly receive his interpretation . Hence the tendency of hid writings would be useful , useful in a very high degree , even though the tenets which he so ably defends should prove erroneous . But who shall prove them so , identified as he has shewn them to be with the plainest and most prominent declarations of the Word of God ? It is

    much easier to call names ; to talk of a , " feeble and conceited heresy ; ' and even that , it is to be hoped , will not be ventured upon with quite so much facility after the rebuke so properly bestowed upon Archbishop Magee in the first © f these publications . It is one which that doughty polemic must be hardened indeed for it not to produce on him a lasting and salutary impression .

    Dr . Drummond ' s Essay on the Doctrine of the Trinity called forth a pamphlet , of which the title is a sufficient specimen . It is this : " Unitarianism Unmasked , or the

    Unitarians * Creed , as set forth in a Pamphlet , recently published by the Rev . William * Hamilton Drummond , D . D ., proved to be inconsistent with itself , and opposed to Reason , Common Sense , and the plainest Precepts of Scripture ; and the Doctor's Belief in the Doctrine of

    Purgatory , or the Annihilation , of the Soul , plainly shewn from his own Language . By Philip Dixon Hardy . "—P . 3 . This publication was rescued-from , the immediate and entire oblivion into which it mast otherwise have fallen , by tha Archbishop ' s writing a puff of it , in the

    form of a letter to the Author , which he was " kindly permitted to publish , " and which accordingly was published , and that very diligently and perseveriugly , ia various Magazines and Newspapers . We insert the epistle with Dr . Drummond ' s comment on its arrogant description of

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    Critical Notices * 57 &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 573, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/53/