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    acute remarks upon Mr . Walpole ' s letter , by a friend . To this little publication , there appeared a reply , under the following title " A Letter to the Rev . Mr . Madee , on the Unitarian Version of

    the New Testament , by Robert Walpole , M . A . " Mr . Madge ' s " Three Letters , " of which the title is given above , are in answer to this short pamphlet . Their avowed design is to vindicate the Improved Version , from Mr . Walpole ' s objections , and the

    editors and approvers of it from his accusations . We think , and we understand that the readers of the controversy at Norwich think , that he lias succeeded . He has tracked Mr . Walpole to Nares and Magee , from whom all the opponents of Unitarianism are contented to borrow , and

    from whom , as a sort of cimroll-property , all ecclesiastics seem to think that thev may borrow without acknowledgement . The truth is , that although it is now the fashion for

    bishops to charge , and for the subordinate clergy , convoked by their bishops , to preach , against the Unitarians , it is scarcely thought necessary to study the works of Unitarians or to understand the Trinitarian

    controversy . A few round accusations which have been issued by some master of reproachful sentences , are deemed sufficient to take up and throw at the Unitarians ; it being , apparently , less an object to set them right than to manifest a mind hostile to them , which is now the sign of orthodoxy aud the recommendation to the

    maternal smiles of the church . Such being the state of the case , an answer to any one of the assailants of the Unitarians is nearly an answer to all . ^ the same time , it is desirable that we defence should be made in the

    same court where the accusation is preferred , and local controversies on religious subjects greatly facilitate the spread of truth . We therefore thank Nr . Madge for this timely , judicious and effectual service to the common

    j-a use , and wish his Letters in the bands of all who desire to be acquainted with the current objections the more learned clergy to Unimm rotarpretutions of scripture , and

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    Art . VI . The Exaltation , Dignity and Dominion of Jesus- A Sermon , preached at Tenterden , June 16 , 1813 , on the Second Meeting of the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association . By Joseph Dobell . I 2 mo . pp . 28 . Cranbrook , Reader ; London , Eaton . V i 1 HERE is a remarkable and beau-JL tiful simplicity in this sermon , the author of which is , in ecclesiastical phrase , a lay ~ preacher > and one of a family which has been distinguished amongst the General Baptists by its activity and usefulness in their churches . With edifying plainness

    the sermon unites strong sense and an . ardent spirit of liberty . In a note , p . 26 , there is an admirable common-sense criticism on Rev . xxii . 16 , where Jesus Christ is called " the root and the offspring of David . " The Trinitarian interpretation is that Christ was to David both cause and effect , origin and issue ; in other words , that he was the Father as well as the Son of David . But Mr . Dobell says that the root is not before

    but after the rod or stem . u any one try the experiment of propagating vines or shrubs , by rods or sli p * taken from the stock , and he will be convinced that the rod produces the root as surely as it does the branch . Jesus , the root , ' therefore could not be prior to David the rod " In Isaiah xi . 1 , says Mr . Dobell , the lineal descendants of Jesse are intended bv the term roots . The

    10 th verse of the same chapter is still more to the purpose ; especially as it is quoted by Paul , Rom . xv . 12 , evidently in the sense hqre suggested . The Greek word used in this last place and in Rev . xxii . 16 , pi £ a

    bears a meaning conformable to this interpretation . See Schleusner , No . 6 , and M . Repos . v . £ 53 . There are several typographical errors in the Sermon , and one particularly awkward in the last line of the note , p . 17 .

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    Review — DobelVs Sermon on the Exaltation , 8 fc * of Jesus . 185

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    of those particularly who may be called upon to answer , in their peculiar circles , for the doctrines generally received amongst Unitarians .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/57/