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                         UNITARIANISM DEFENDED:


                          A SERIES OF LECTURES


                                   BY


                 THREE PROTESTANT DISSENTING MINISTERS
                             OF LIVERPOOL:


                              IN REPLY TO


              A COURSE OF LECTURES, ENTITLED “UNITARIANISM
                  CONFUTED,” BY THIRTEEN CLERGYMEN OF
                         THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.


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Would to Heaven that Christians had their own ‘vail’ of orthodox words
taken away from their minds; that, limiting Orthodoxy to the acceptance
of the Christ as the SPIRIT (‘the Lord is that Spirit,’ says St. Paul),
_i.e._, the meaning, the end of all revelation, they would not allow a
new _letter_, consisting of abstract doctrines, to involve their minds
in a ‘vail’ which obstructs the view of the Gospel, even more than the
old letter, which kept the Jews in “bondage.”—_Heresy and Orthodoxy by
Rev. J. Blanco White_, p. 53, 2nd edition.

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                               LIVERPOOL:
                 WILLMER AND SMITH, 32, CHURCH STREET.

                                LONDON:
                    JOHN GREEN, 121, NEWGATE STREET.

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                                 1839.




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                                LONDON:
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                            GENERAL PREFACE.


In this Preface, and in all the other contents of this volume, we have
occupied the position of an assailed party, lending our best
consideration