ABSTRACT

Unitarianism peculiarly falls in with the liberal and intellectual character of the Gospel and of the instructions of Christ and his Apostles. The religion of Christ is a religion of the heart, but it is also a religion of the understanding. If the Unitarian views of Christian truth are correct, there is nothing in the scheme of the Gospel which it is difficult to understand. Unitarianism leads us to expect nothing from God without ourselves endeavouring to do his will. It places religion in the careful regulation of the heart and life by the spirit and precepts of Christ. Unitarianism does a vast service to the cause of Christian charity, by levelling those narrow fences within which modern Orthodoxy confines all that is truly good and excellent. It thus disposes us to give the right hand of fellowship to all, whose dispositions and conduct show they have sat at the feet of Jesus.