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are obedient to his precepts shall obtain everlasting life . " To this is subjoined the following note .- — ' As persons are frequently
lea away by names , to Which they affix : very opprobrious ideas , and this abuse prevails no where more than in the University , I shall for the sstke of the junior stydents , just delineate the leading features of some sects now prevailing in the nation . By Unitarians I mean those , who believe God to be one person , and all other persons and things to be his creatures : in opposition to
Trinitarians , who believe God to consist of three persons in one substance , and all creatures , persons and things to be their joint production . The different opinions
concerning the nature of Christ , may be briefly stated in the following manner . Either Christ pre-existed , or he did not . } f he pre-existed , it must have been either as God , or as a creature of God ; the
former is the Athanasian ,-the latter the-Arian opinion . If he did not pre-exist , his existence must have commenced either naturally or supernaturally ; that is , hfe must have been conceived by his mother in the ordinary manner , or in some
extraordinary way , must have bpen the son of Joseph and Mary , or of Mary alone : the former as it wa , s the opinion of some early Christians , so it is also of some sensible and learned persons of our times : the latter is the general
opinion prevailing among the Socitiians . The author professes himself to be a Unitarian , distinguished from the Arians , by de . nyirtg the pre-existence of Christ ; and frofti the Socinians , by denying the propriety of addressing prayers to any but the one true
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God . The time , it is hoped , is not far distant , when men vvill cease to be called by the names of Athanasius , Arius or Socinus . "
If this should fall in the way of the writer in the Eclectic Review , I should be glad , if he would in as clear a manner state his own opinions ; I am sure you would give them a place in your Repository , which I trust will continue
to present to your readers both sides . of | , he question , for our cause delights in investigation , and neither requires nor will ever employ abuse in its support . I remain , Sir , Your very obedient PHILO . XENO 3 ,
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Gogmagog on the i curious Ea ;~ tract from the ' Eclectic Meview * Sir , Impotent rage is always ridiculous : you have , indeed , amused your readers by bringing forward a redoubtable Eclectic to play his frantic part on the arena of your Repository , ( pp . 92—94 . ) Whether he or his brethren have been
equally satisfied with his being exhibited on such a stage , may perhaps be doubted . You have given him rope enough , according to the condition of the proverb , and he has exemplified the consequence of it ( which I need not put down in words . ) most notably .
Your ' curious' extract enables me to answer a question which I have sometimes ^ heard concerning this company of Eclectics . The true Eclectic in religion , is one who picks up one grairr of truth out of this party , and another out of that , and * o fills up his ^ measure of wheat without chaff ; bvtt thifc is evidently not the just dfefiu
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Gogmagog nn the * curiousExtract from the Eclectic ReviewJ * l 6 £
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/29/
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