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was , not at this time in the attitude of devotion . It is expressly said afterwardsf that he changed his position , and kneeling down , prayed with a loud voice , not Lord Jesus—Stephen was too well informed to consider Jesus
the supreme and universal Judge , — but * ' Lord , lay not this sin to their charge /*—a prayer , which an attentive examination of the Scripture usage in this and other parts of the original , will authorize us to believe , is offered
up to none other th ? in the God and Father of Jesus ; and therefore so far from destroying , it abundantly justifies and confirms the doctriqe by which Unitarian societies regulate their
worship . The sense of Lord ( Acts vii . 60 ) as equivalent to Jehovah , is confirmed , {\ , ) by the constant employment of the same word ( Kvpiog ) to express the Supreme Being , in the Greek translation of the Old Testament , made
before , the time of Christ , and in common use then by those who understood Greek . ( & , ) By the employment of the same word in Stephen ' s speech in the 49 th verse , in quoting from the Old Testament , «* Heaven is my throne , and earth is mv footstool ;
what house will ye build me , saith the Lord , ( Kvpioq , ) or-what is the place of my rest ? " ( 3 , ) By the change in the appellation bestowed by Stephen upon Jesus , when he was standing , from the expression which he employed when he assumed the posture of
devotion ; in the one case Kvpta lyjo-av , and in the other simply Kvgie . As Stephen spoke in Syro-Chaldaic , it becomes the more probable that this difference of expression was intended ; otherwise the Greek historian would
have written the same in both instances ; and ( 4 rhly , ) by the similarity of the sentiment expressed by our Saviour on the cross , " Father , forgive them , for they know not what they do ; " wijere it is absurd to suppose that the Lord Jesus was both the
offerer and the object of the prayer . This similarity the preacher himself has discovered iu the other instance , * ' Lord Jesus receive my spirit , " which he compares with the words , u Lord , into thy hands I commend my spirit ;"
where , unintentionally of course , our Saviour ' s word , Father , exclusively applicable to the only true God , is exchanged for the ambiguous word Lord , Kppie ; which , may be the Greek translation of two very different He-
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brew words , Jehovah and AcJonimthe former of which , as a whole , is never given to Jesus , or to 3 ny created -intelligence : ; the latter , simply descriptive of authority , is capable of the most extensive and varied signification .
The Orthodox Reviewer we before noticed has flattered the preacher of this sermon , by the expression of his entire satisfaction , and intimation of his success as an author . We would
conclude by urging him to attend less to the established doctrines of former days , and more to the genuine doctrines of revelation ; to be less solicitous about defending mysterious and unaccountable tenets , and more desi *
rous of exhibiting Christianity in that native simplicity , which will gain the admiration and approve itself to the judgment of man . Thus ogly will he have a fair claim to the character of a Scriptural critic ; thus only can he share the reputation of a well-informed Christian and a useful divine . M .
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308 Review * - —Pullagar ^ s Letter to Lloyd .
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Art . IV . — Unitarianism vindicated from the Imputation- of tending to Infidelity . In a Letter to the Rev .
Richard Lloyd , M . A . Vicar of Mid * hurst , occasioned by his Account of the Recent Conduct and Present State of the Rev . Robert Taylor . By John Fullagar , Minister of the Unitarian
Chapel , Cliicliester . 8 vo . pp . 38 . Houter and Eaton , 1819-" nP llE Rev ' Robert Taylor" is the JL gentleman whose singular recantation of infidelity was inserted in
our last volume , X 1 TT . 754 . He was curate to Mr . Lloyd , who has published an account of his " Conduct "
and " State . ' With strange ignorance or bigotry , the vicar of Midhurst has attributed his unbelief m Christianity
to such infidel writers as Hume and Gibbon , Priestley and Behham- With great gravity too , he relates that the young unbeliever was invited by " the Unitarians and Socinians" *« to come among them , as they would gladly admit him , if he would only admit tli €
resurrection of Christ into his creed . " ( See Lloyd ' s Reply to Letters , &c . p . 62 . ) This was rather a hard condition for infidels to impose upon a brother infidel . What trash will not bigotry feed upon t Mr- Fullagar , who is acquainted with Mr ; Taylor ' s history , contradicts
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/48/
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