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852 Critical Notices.—Theological.
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Yet it is perfectly Unitarian , such as Unitarians are in the habit of offering in their public and private devotions . The next which occurs , is termed the * Absolution , ' commencing * Almighty Goc \ , the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . " Cannot a Trinitarian say Amen to this ? Yet this is also Unitarian . The
next is the Lord's Prayer . Cannot a Trinitarian say Amen to this ? Then comes an ascription of praise in the words of Psalm xcv . Cannot the Trinitarian say Amen to this ? ' The second Collect for Peace , ' and ' the third Collect for Grace / follow , where petitions are addressed solely to the Father through the Son—both , such as a Unitarian would
conscientiously use . ' The Prayer for the King ' s Majesty , ' for f The Royal Family , ' for The Clergy / * The Prayer of St . Chrysostom , ' are such as Unitarians usually offer . And cannot a Trinitarian respond Amen ? In reading these observations , I hope the reader will endeavour to get a book and examine the various prayers which I have mentioned
Let him also turn to the s Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several occasions . ' The prayer * for Rain / c for Fair Weather , ' * in the time of Dearth and Famine , ' in the time of any Common Plague or Sickness , ' one of the prayers for * Ember Week / the prayer < for the High Court of Parliament / ' for Plenty / * for Peace and Deliverance from our
Euemies / ' for restoring Public Peace at Home / are all Unitarian , and such as not only that a Trinitarian can respond Amen to , but to which thousands actually do every Sabbath . Turn to the ' Burial of the Dead / you will there find two prayers , I believe the only two which occur in That beautiful servw-ip .
both Unitarian . All these , and others , ( wfiieh anyone may discover , embracing hereby every variety of topic which ciui occur in petitions , ) are quite sufficient to falsify the assertion , that a TriniUirii & n cannot say Amen to a Unitarian ' s pniyer . "—p . 9 .
No . 7 . Mr . Harris ' s sermon , it may safely be predicted , will be read when the rest of the controversy is forgotteai . It is a plain , cogent , and earnest discourse on Christian worship . We irejoice to find that it hart had a rapid and
large sale in Scotland ; and as it has been put on the Catalogue of the Unitarian Association , we hope it will be extensively circulated as n tract in tJhi . s country . The following calculation is not a fair specimen , of the sermon , but we extract it because it is curious : 6 i In a single discourse , it would be
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impossible to go over all the ( evidence in favour of the great truths , that there is but one God in one person , and that he alone is to be worshiped in the name of Jesus Christ his Son , our Lord . But knowing , that our Saviour is called in the Scriptures—a Prophet , 15 times—a Servant of God , 5 times—the sent of God , 56 times—Jesns of Nazareth , 18
times—the Son of Joseph , 6 times—the Seed of Abraham , 10 times—the Son of Man , 86 times—a Man , 72 times—the Son of God , 117 times—and that it is declared , that he was anointed of God , that he prayed to God , that he was raised from the dead by God , that he Is exalted to the right hand of God , and that he is dependent for all his powers and
authority on that * Father who sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world / full of grace and truth , in 271 other passages ;—knowing , that the Almighty Parent of creation is called the one true God , the God of Jesus Christ , 14 times —the one universal Father , the Father of Jesus Christ , 92 times—the Father , 266 times—Jehovah , his incommunicable
name , the self-existent , 6872 timesand that the singular and personal pronouns are applied by the only true God to himself , or are applied to him by others , in upwards of 11 , 000 other passages of the Bible ;—knowing , that to the doctrines , that God is one in one
person only , and that he alone is to be worshiped , and that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Father ' s love , there is thus the concur rent testimony of more than 20 , 000 passages of Holy Writ , I ask , would it not be highly irrational as well as uuscriptural , to make this mighty mass of evidence bemd its self-evident
truths before a few isolated texts , which may sound as in opposition , but which , when calmly examined , are found to be also in accordance with the voice of nature and the liible— of Jesus and of God ?"— P . 15 . The local allusions are all confined to
the Appendix . In addition to some demolishing remarks on Mr . Struther . s , Mr . HarriH convicts him of attempting to excite : prejudice against the Unitarian Sunday-School , by insinuating ( what was not the fact ) , ttiat t 4 reading , writing , and the ordinary brandies of education , " were taught on the Lord ' a-day .
This would , it seems , be an intolerable desecration of the Sabbath in that very 4 t godly ' ie # ion . No . 8 is little niuure thau a string of texts supposed to favour tlie doctrines oi Satisfaction and ilie Deity of Christ . They are strangely put together ,, and
852 Critical Notices.—Theological.
852 Critical Notices . —Theological .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 852, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/52/
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