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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.

"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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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 to whatever a leagued body of resolute and unsparing adversaries could say against us. We have stood We have stood upon the defensive, not lamenting that such an occasion had occurred of exposing our views of Christianity to so severe a scrutiny, and of displaying to the world whether our position was tenable. We did not provoke this Controversy. It was of our opponents' choosing. They entered into combination, and arranged their method of attack, and invited the public attentively to look on while they performed upon us the work of destruction. With respectful attention, as men whose system of Christianity was about to be subjected to a powerful analysis by those who believed the main ingredients to be poisonous, but with quiet hearts, as men who had no interest in this world but to discover Truth,-we have interfered no further than was necessary to make this examination, by carefulness, impar

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