ADVERTISEMENT. 



' ~ Jan. 1, 1827, 



This day is published, price Is. 6d., 



No. I. 



' Op a new series of 



AND 



REVIEW 



OF THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE. 



Printed for the Proprietors by G. Smallfield, Hackney, 



And sold at the Monthly Ri;fository Office, No. 3, Walbrook Buildings, 



Walbrook, and by R. HuxNTEe, St. Paul's Churchyard. 



The Monthly Repository has long been the only periodical publication 

 which could be considered as the organ of the sentiments of Unitariansj and 

 its value in this point of view has been generally felt and acknowledged. The 

 time is, however, arrived when a work upon a somewhat different plan, of a 

 more comprehensive character, and aspiring to a higher excellence of literary 

 execution, seems not only to be called for by Unitarians, but likely to be 

 acceptable to the candid inquirer of every religious denomination, as well 

 as eminently conducive to the promotion of those objects which interest the 

 general body of Protestant Dissenters. With this conviction, the copyright 

 of the Repository has been purchased by a number of individuals, under 

 whose auspices the work will in future be conducted. 



The New Series of the Monthly Repository will continue to combine 

 the twofold character of a Theological and Literary Miscellany, and hold 

 itself forth as a Repository for the productions of men of learning and talents, 

 on the most interesting topics of Religion, Morals and general Literature. 

 It will seek to stand in the foremost rank of those Journals which are zea- 

 lously devoted to the cause of Liberty : — it will strenuously contend for the 

 abolition of all restraints on the formation and publication of religious 

 opinions ; and it will always be open to the free, but temperate and candid, 

 discussion of those important subjects which properly fall within its province : 

 — it will of necessity be imbued with the opinions and prepossessions of the 

 persons from whom it emanates, but will not on that account be a mere 

 sectarian publication, still less will it become the vehicle of prejudice or in- 

 tolerance. If for the most part it speak the opinions of Unitarians, (using 

 that word in the most catholic and comprehensive sense,) the candid reader 

 even of a different denomination will bear in mind, that it is from a body 

 holding those opinions that a work of which Churchmen and Dissenters may 

 alike avail themselves for the unfettered investigation of religious truth, can 

 alone be expected to proceed. Humbly aspiring- to maintain the character 

 of friends to Peace, Charity and true Religion, the Conductors trust, that 

 when called upon to differ most widely from the majority of professing 

 Christians, they shall do so in the spirit of seriousness and piety, and, above 

 all, of charity and goodwill. They will always court inquiry, and invite 



