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erudition . In opposition to a host of evidence , " The learned prelate would retain these precious words , because he thinks , p . 47 , that the connexion requires it , and that C ' vprian had the good fortune not to overlook them , and the honesty not to suppress
them . He acquits , p , 81 , the Aria us who have heea suspected of the si a of rejecting * th « offensive passage from the sacred text , and ascribes the daring omission of this holy symbol of the cathoJic faith to Artemon , an eminent Unitarian of the third century , to whom , no doubt , all the catholics of that a gre , of all nations aad lano-uag * es , from
Britain to India , must have sent their copies of the New Testament to be corrected : for in no other way could a change so universal hate been at that time accomplished . What would the learned prelate say if such a mode should be adapted of defending- a spurious passage in a Greek or Koman classic ?" P . 120 . —Note .
The bishop is not ashamed to mix up again the nauseous trash , with which the meanest subalterns in the Trinitarian corps begin to be disgusted . It was long * a standing dish , but we really gave our learned opponents , at least , the credit of better taste .
Cl arguments which some hare al-Icg-ed , and which the learned prelate has not disdained to countenance , see pp . 52 and 75 , that Unitarian ism cannot be true because it resembles Mahomitanistn and
Deism , are so ineffably ridiculous and so superlatively contemptible , that it is impossible to treat them seriously : viz . The Deists believe Christ to be a mere man , and they reject Trinitarianism , —so do the Unitarians : therefore the Unitarians are Deists .
The Mahometans believe in one God , and that Jesus is a prophet of God , —so do the Unitarians : therefore the Unitarians are Mahometans . Just so it might be argued : The Trinitarians worship a deified man . But the worshipers of the Grand Lama worship a deified man : therefore the
Trinitanans are worshipers of the Grand Lama . Again : The Trinitarians believe that God became incarnate . But the worshipers of v isnnoo believe that God became incarnate ' y therefore the Trinitarians are Worshipers of Vishnoo . Are such arguments as these to oc admitted into a grare discussion concerning- the great essential truths of the Christian religion ? " P . 145 . —JVo / e .
A threat is held out by the bishop jhat he will continue to pursue the Unitarians as long" as he has breath in tos body ; they cannot desire a more useful foe : long may he retail his idle j ^ guments and his silly calumnies , and °% may Mr . Belsham be favoured * rth health and spirits to repeat the services which in this publication lie
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has rendered to truth and charity , and to expose the impotence of his lordship ' s reasoning and to chastise the insolence of his aspersions .
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Art . III . —Evidences of Revealed Religion ; on a new and original Plan : Beijigan Appeal to Deists , on their own Principles of Argument . By Christophilus . 8 vo . pp . 120 . Mitcham , 67 , Whitechapel , and Sherwood and Co ., Paternoster Row .
1814 . WE always look with suspicion upon " new and original ' ways of deciding old controversies , and we frankly confess that we took up this pamphlet expecting that the contents would not answer to the title . It is
however due to the writer , to our readers and to the paramount authority of truth and justice , that we make the farther confession that we have been agreeably disappointed , and have
found in Christophilus a most acute and ingenious and able and successful advocate of Christianity , upon principles which are at least novel in the mode of their application .
The pamphlet consists of Eight Letters , which appear to have been published in a periodical work , entitled , " The Freethinking Christians' Magazine . " The two first are occupied with introductory remarks , in which there is a masterly examination of
some of Mr . Paine ' s objections to revealed religion and a perspicuous exposition of the origin and meaning of certain terms in frequent use in the Deistical controversy . The third is a
satisfactory argument on the position —that the Jews always believed and acknowledged one only God , that the book of nature , as it is called , is not a cause adequate to this effect , but that the cause which the Jews
themselves have assigned , namely , di- ^ vine revelation , is an adequate , and the only adequate cause . In the fourth letter , on fhe present stale of the Jewi . sh people , there is no pretension to originality , but the argument which is exceedingly strong , is
judiciously stated . The reasoning of the fifth letter appears to us to be new and is certainly solid : it refers to the objection of Mr , Paine , founded on the late period when the canon of scripture was formed , and the conclusion is briefly , that considering the character of ecclesiastics at that time ,
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Review . —Christophilus on the Evidences of Revealed Religion . 515
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/51/
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