Letters on Unitarianism Author:Samuel Miller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER II. Prejudices cherished by many against Orthodoxy—Tltat Orthodoxy is austere and repulsive—That it lays too much stress on opinions—That it is a spiri... more »t of perse cution. Christian Brethren, In entering on the discussion of the points in controversy between the Orthodox and Unitarians, there are some Popular Prejudices, which continually meet us, and which seldom fail to exert an unfavourable influence on the minds of many persons who profess to be seeking the truth on this subject. I need not say that a Prejudice is an opinion taken up without solid reason or inquiry, and adhered to rather from feeling than from enlightened judgment. Nor is it necessary to remark, that prejudices ought to be carefully avoided. No man in his senses will be willing to commit himself deliberately to their guidance ; yet nothing is more common than to be under this guidance, even on the most important of all subjects. And perhaps it may be said with truth that there are no points on which men are more peculiarly apt to give themselves up to the government of prejudices, than on those which are now under consideration ; because there are none on which the feelings of the corrupt heart are more apt to rise in arms. It shall be my endeavour, in this and the next Letter, to put you on your guard against some of these prejudices, and to engage those who have hitherto indulged them, to inquire impartially before they proceed further in this course. I. The First that I shall mention in this catalogue of Prejudices, is, " That The Or- " THODOX SYSTEM IS AUSTERE AND REPUL- " siVE; that it gives gloomy and discouraging " views of human nature ; and that the whole u method of restoration to the favour and enjoyment of God which it exhibits, is hu- " initiating and melancholy: while Un...« less