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ill-will against any individual for the conscientious profession either of Ananism , or the doctrine of the Trinity . My desire is to enlighten , not to inflame
I do not know whether I exactly understand the purport of the question proposed by your correspondent from Lynn , ( p . 486 ) but to afford him the best satisfaction 1 am able , I will
£ ^ ive a brief abstract of my ideas upon the subject of the gift of tongues in the following propositions : 1 . The gift of tongues was , I
believe , a power miraculously communicated to the apostles , and to many of the first converts , of speaking various languages which they had never learned . See Acts ii .
2 . This gift once communicated was permanent : and was liable to be grossly perverted and abused , 8 . Por the shameful perversion of this s ^ ift the apostle severely reproves the Corinthians , arid gives many judicious directions for its proper employment . 1 Cor . xii . xiv .
4 . This abuse of miraculous gifts and powers , which made it necessary for the apostle to animadvert so severely upon the Corinthians , and to give so many particular directions for
the proper employment of them , affords the strongest possible historical evidence of their existence , and consequently , of the truth of the Chris tian religion .
The argument stands thus : Either the first epistle to the Corinthians was not written by Paul—or , the apostle must have been insane—or , these powers existed , and therefore Christianity is of divine original . 5 . Upon this hypothesis the wisdom of ( jod is vindicated in communicating
powers which were liable to be perverted and abused . 6 . Q u . Why did not the apostles write better Greek ? Answ . Greek was not one of the languages with which the apostles were inspired . It was probably as
well known in Judea , as Kn £ ; lish is in Wales- Every one who could use a pen could write in Greek . IS or is it necessary to suppose that if a language is divinely inspired it must he inspired in its purest and most classical form . It would rather be
communicated in that form in which it would be most universally intelligible . ? . That the miracle wrought , was
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that of rendering the discourse of th * speaker intelligible to hearers who were of different nations and Ianguages , is a supposition which ap . to inconsistent
pears me with the narrative . That it was the gift of different tones is a solution which could only be suggested by one who meant to turn the whole into ridicule .
If the hints suggested which are quite satisfactory to my own mind , should contribute to alleviate the difficulty which occurs to your correspondent , or to any other of your readers , it will be a sincere gratification to , Sir , Yours , &c . T . BEJLSHAM . ^^^^
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556 Pastor , in Reply to Mr . Aspland , on the Term Unitarian
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___ ^ m Sir , AS Mr . Aspland ' s reply in your last Number ( p . 479 ) to my remarks in the preceding one , is extremely unsatisfactory , and contains some
positions which require animadversion , I beg leave to trouble you once more on the subject . —At the close of along and ( for the most part ) irrelevant quotation from his " Flea , " that gentleman observes , Now it is for
Pastor to say whether the term Socmian as commonly used be not inappropriate and invidious / ' I beg Mr . A * s pardon , but it is not for me to say any thing about it . I have mack no allusion to that term ; nor do I wish to apply it to any person who disowns it . What I have censured
is the adoption of another term as descriptive of a certain party , when it is known to be equally descriptive of others who are not of that party . 1 " reply to this Mr . A . remarks , that the term Protestant includes more sects
than one , and also the term Christian : and then most strangely asks , " Who would therefore lay either aside ?" Methinks the question ought to have been , " What sect therefore vrouM think of appropriating either of these terms to itself ? " Suppose , for
distance , a particular class of Christina to have a " fund" for its own p eeul u ^ purposes ; what should we think o ? their calling it The Christian Vvnt \ f or the Protestant Fund > When ^ speak of Christians or of Protestant we include them all generally , ** ( 0 not intend one class in particular Now Mr . A . admits that the teiiu Unitarian , like those two , " embrace more sects than one . ' The inferd *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/24/
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