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** The prejudice of haftit and the zfeal of ignorance must give way before the progress of knowledge . The mystery of the mass was supported by . tlie letter of Scripture ; was defended hy ecclesiastical learning ; was assented to by men of erudition , talent and piety ; was n » doiibting- ) y
received by the people ; but before the progress of knowledge it has disappeared . Like this 4 str «> itgv delusion , ' every device of human understanding , which has sown its tares in the gospel field , must he rooted out . The faith which was preached at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost , preached at Athens on the hill of Mars , delivered
to the saints , ' transmitted through the first a ° * es , retained by the people , sophisticated by philosophising- converts , and confounded in the Great Aposlacy on whose forehead is written mystery , was a faith in the 4 God the Father , * and the 4 one
Mediator * of his grace , the Man- Christ Jesms ; whoni Gor > had raised from the dead . ' This was the faith of which * Christ U the corner stone , a rut which is built upon the foundation of Apostles and Prophets .
Although these witnesses may have heen i slain und rejoiced over , ' the spirit of life from God shall enter into them , and they shall stand upon their feet . ' Before the fulness of the . Gentiles l ) e come in , before the Jew and the Mahometan can
4 seek to the root of JesseJ the Christian Church must be purified from those errors which veil with darkness the unity of God ; for it is written , Jehovah shall be King * over the whole earth , and there shall be ONE Jehovah , and his stame ONE ^ Zech . xiv . 9 . "—Pp . 178 , 179 .
There are many pages of Notes , some of which may be csflled Dissertations , relating to the important subjects discussed in the " Appeal . One of them contains strictures on Mr . Coleridge ' s late attack upon the Unitarians , in his ¦« Lay-Sermons , "' and the reader will be pleased with the happy manner in which the writer
testifies his respect for poetical genius while he exposes false reasoning , and reprobates intolerant zeal , especially against a people amongst whom the accuser once found shelter . After so many considerable extracts , we need not say any thing concerning the merits of the " A ppeal ; " we will therefore only express our hope that the reception of this volume by the public will be such as to encourage the learned and eloquent author again and again to employ his fine talents in the elucidation and defence ofthe great and good cause which he has so cordially embraced and boldly confessed .
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JL pously pronounced by the Edinburgh 'Christian Instructor to be replete with sound logic and biblical learning . The author , a man" of re * spcctable ^ haraciev and attainments , has chosen his subject with a view to a direct and very obvious attack upon
A rt . III . —Stephen ' s Prayer : a SSermim preached afthe opening of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr , October \ 3 th 9 1818 . By John Hodgson , M . D . Minister of Blantyrg ( near Glas-_ gow ) . Ogles and Co . f 11 HIS discourse has been pom *
the ¦ Unitarian scheme ; the argument of his sermon bringing into controversy the leading' principle upon which the worship of Unitarian societies is conducted Jr viz , that there is but one object of religious adoration , and that
( his object is the rather of Jesus . The preacher does make some pretension , it is true , to logical accuracy , and in one respect we give him credit f ^ r dis * cernmerit ; for he has not encumbered his defence of orthodoxy with the in * troduction-of arguments which others
of his party might , without hesitation , denounce as fallacious . He has rested the whole question concerning the object of religious worship ( than which a more important one cannot be embraced ) upon two clauses of a verse in the 7 th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles . He ha . s throw a the
argument of his discourse into the syllogistic form , which our readers fully understand may be adopted in matiy cases where no proof whatever is effected ; if the premises be themselves in any respect inaccurate ^ the conclusion , though it follow naturally from the premises , is not therefore valid , nor does in the lea ^ t advan ce the interests
of truth . We present our readers with this boasted syllogism : "By the unvarying tenor of the Christian doctrine and of Scripture authority , prayer cannot be made or
offered up to any person or being , except the true God . " But in the case of Stephen , prater is made or offered up to the Lord Jesus Christ .
Therefore the Lord Jesm Christ is truly God , the second person of the ever-blessed am ! mysterious Trinity : The first of the premises we are so far from denying :, that it appears to us to afford the most direct refutation possible of the conclusion which the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 505, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/45/
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