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252 Review.—Carpenter's Letteri to Veysi...
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Art. I. A Connected History Of The Life ...
the inferences natural and useful . We regard the publication as honourable to the society which called it forth and can recommend it as containing a brief , but
satisfactory , exposition of some of the principal texts upon which have been built the monstrous doctrines of the Athanasian Creed .
Art . III . Umtariawsm the Doctrine \ of the Gospel . Letters to the Rev . Daniel Veysiey B . D *; occasioned byhis Preservative against ZJnitarianism ; containing a View of the Scriptural Grounds of Unitarianism ^ and an Examination of all the Expressions in the New Testamenty which are generally considered as supporting opposite Doctrines . By Lant Carpenter , LL . D . 12 mo . pp . 383 , Longman and Co . 18 Q 9 . [ Conductedfrom p . Il 6 . ]
We are not satisfied to let our recommendation of this valuable volume go unsupported by proofs and specimens of its excellence ; though its variety makes selection
difficult , and the straitness of our Review department prevents us from laying before the reader some long passages which we think uncommonly good , and had marked out for quotation .
The work is dedicated , in appropriate and feeling language , " To the memory of the late Rev . Theophilus Lindsey , A . M . " who during a long life fulfilled a prophet's work , and is receiving , and
throughout all time and eternity ^ will , we are persuaded , continue to receive a prophet ' s reward . We meet , in p . 25 . with a just explanation of the caution , objected to Unitarians , in the use of
scriptural glowing terms with regard to Jesus Christ . " Let us place ourselves back to the period immediately after the reformation from popery * and suppose , that in the parish wnere you laudably labour to
diffuse the knowledge and practice of the gospel , some zealous Papist had been long instilling in the minds of the people , the doctrine of transubstantiation , and with it the connected errors of popery which we must agree in considering as erroneous , should you not . Sir ,
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till you had destroyed in the minds of your parishioners the connexion between the words , « this is my body , * and the doctrine of transubstantiation , feel considerable difficulty in the use of the
expression 'without explanation * least either you should countenance Popery by your words , or should be thought to be aiming to conceal your opinions as a Protestant ?"
The explanation of the Proem of the Gospel of John , [ pp . 75—81 ] is a luminous pieee of criticism . Dr . Carpenter interprets the Logos of Christ , the chosen revealer of the divine will / ' who **• received direct communications
from God , and was to us a God , the Representative of the Most High , " who " was the agent in all the wonderful manifestations
of divine power and goodness , which have been made to us /' who " in every one was the agent . " The exposition is substantially the same as the late learned Mr . Cappe r s .
The expression " root of David /* applied to Christ , in Rev , v . 5 . and xxii . 16 . Dr . Carpenter explains as meaning a rod
from the stem of David , a cion from his roots / ' and refers to Isaiah xL 1 C compared with v . 1 of the same chapter , in justification of the explanation a it far-
252 Review.—Carpenter's Letteri To Veysi...
252 Review . —Carpenter ' s Letteri to Veysie *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/36/
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