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more pertinent citations having
been made by former writers * . Of modern Unitarianism Mr . D'Oyly is , in every view , deplorably ignorant . It is not true that the advocates of the belief which he so denominates , regard
the controversy between their opponents and themselves as involving merely speculative tenets . It is nofe true that they employ unjustifiable weapons in the
conflict ; eager as our auth@r is to bring the accusation , his own note is a proot of his inability to substantiate it . ( c ) Further , it is not true that the Unitarians invite
any ( 46 ) to a " ba * ty , ill-grounded and premature exercise of their judgment ; ' * though , on the other hand , they do not , like the Christian Advocate , recommend that
im » n should , cc for a time receive truth on the authority of others /' and suspend the process of pursuing investigation for themselves . { 47 ) . yStill we agree with him that the question between the Unitarian
£ i ) d the orthodqx writers , is very far from being ntw : n it' has even subsisted much Ibnger than this gentleman seems to be aware . ( 48 , 4 p ) i , Nor , again , do we object to the principle ( 52 ) that " it is by catching the spirit of the sacred
writings , by viewing the texts in their several bearings ,, by chscovering their general scope , that scriptural truth is to be placed on its true basis . "
The Christian Advocate , after the example of authors of greater reputation than himself , Jbas
endeavoured to throw his strength © f talents and leabung into his notes * in the last and most tedious
* The barrister , and Dr . Oiitram in bis Extracts . &c *
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of which , he bestows a few animadversions on the Improved Version and on Mr . Belsham ' s Calm Inquiry 1 Syc . For a particular repl y ^ however , to these publications , hesends his readers to Leslie * Dialogues with a Socinian ^ which , if they are indeed " a full , detailed
and specific answer to every main and important argument on which the Unitarians are resting with so much confidence at the present day" ( 72 ) , might reasonably have saved Mr . D'Oyly the trouble of this Discourse . Possibly , top , he might have been more sparing of bis censures on Mr . Belsham and
others , had he known that J . D . Michaelis , a believer in the divinity of Jesus Christ , had strong doubts of the authenticity of the introductory chapters to Matthew ' * Gospel * , of the Epistle to the Hebrewsf and of the book q ( the ApocafypseJ .
He observes ( 82 , 83 ) that" while some texts of scripture announce that God will hereafter judge the world by that man whom ^ e h ^ th ordained , ( Act ? xvii . 3 } , ) all Christians have hence derived a
capital confirmation of the truth that Christ really possessed , in addition to his human nature , some nature , of a very superior cast /* And what conclusion , we ask , can be more unwarranted ? What
more notorious irreverence can you shew to scripture , than to draw from , the very passage where Jesus is spoken of ^ as a man ordained by God , a proof of his Deity , —and this in opposition to another , ( John
v . 27 )* which declares that he has iC authority to execute jud g ^ ment because he i * the sun of man ?**
* hi trod , to N . T . ( Marah '« Traat , Vol . I . sio . f V # L IV . a € * . $ Ib . S 44 w
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Review . —The Christian Advocate ' s Publication Jbr 1811 * 1 S 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/45/
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