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    426 Mr . Clarice on his Sketches of Sentiment . "

    cloathing to the naked , consolation to the aftKcJted , relief to the distressed , who commiserates with the suffering , and , with chearfulness lightens tjie burden of his fel - low mortals ? or the creedite , who

    places bis dependance on his saving faith ? Christians , place not your dependance on the doctrines even of Christianity , but be ye careful to practise its morals * A WAYFARING MAN .

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    Mr . Clarke , on his " Sketches of Sentiment *" i Newport , Isle of Wight , Sir , 5 th April , 1812 . The theory Which I have lately advanced , in a little work , entitled Sketches of Sentiment , appears to

    xne to have been very imperfectly understood , even by those who have paid some attention to it : so difficult is it to arrange our thoughts , and to adept such Ian . guage as will convey to the minds

    of others , those views with which we are ourselves impressed . It is not extraordinary that in the first attempt to explain a doctririe so abstruse as that of the Divine

    nature 9 I shouldhave employed certain modes of expression , which were not the best fitted for the purpose , nor is it surprising , that many difficulties and objections should be started , which 1 had not sufficient foresight to antici p ate . As the att ^ intiient of truth is my

    only aim , Thdve really felt obliged by animadversions , ' and thus publicly acknowl ^ d ^ fe rriyself deeply indebted in this respect to the author of a Itftpfy / to iny Sketches , Jdhn Fulhtear , Efcq . On some'future occasion , when I may be itf possession of alt the

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    notice I have a right to expect , it is my intention to review the subject more carefully , and in whatever points it shall appear that I have advanced sentiments contrary to truth , I shall have great

    pleasure in renouncing them . In the mean time , Sir , I shall , with your permission , make a few slight observations relative to this important subject . In the review of the Sketches

    - which was given in your Repository , [ vol . vi . p . 5 S 7 «] I am considered as advancing the

    doctrine of Emanuel Swedenborg , and by a cynical critic in the Monthly Review , I stand accused of " varnping up the old scheme of Smbellius . " If it could

    be proved , that either of these assertions is correct , yet does it not necessarily follow that the opinion itself is erroneous , as the latter writer more than implies ; — -but , I apprehend , a very material difference subsists between my views , and those entertained by the two learned theologians .

    ThedoctrineofSwedenborgianism , upon this subject , is , that there is a Trinity in the Godhead , consisting of the divine origin or principle , —the divine human , — -and the divine proceeding : not as of three distinct persons , but as we see

    united and exhibited , in the body , soul apd operation of rqan > in the one person of Jesus Christ ; who therefore is the God of heaveif , and alone to be worshipped ; being

    Creator from eternity , Redeemer iri time and Regenerator to eter . rii ' ty . * Sabellius taught ; that there i « but one person in the Godhead , that the Wo rd and the Holy . Sp irit . . ~ —— -- *

    * Adajna ' a View of Religions *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/18/