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emulated to interest ; and to refresh tfie memory- of those who , in their younger days , studied at length the history from which they have been judiciously culled . Seventeen Conversations comprise the volume : by these
we are introduced to the Argonauts , theOracles , Lycurgus , the Tyrants , the exploits of the Persians under Darius and Xerxes , the Expedition of Cyrus , the Retreat of the Ten Thousand , and the Acts and Death of Socrates . It is not a volume from which we can well
select any part as a specimen , nor is it needed ; it is sufficient to say , it is well calculated to promote the great objects of education , as enumerated by the authoress herself , in the preface , in the following words :
" To prompt the youthful mind to acquire further knowledge for itsel f , to put it on the method of exercising * its judgment , to cherish the g-rowth of moral and religious principle , are the great objects of education ; to these every other attainment ought to be deemed subordinate ; and whoever -engages in the work of instruction should often call to mind the observation of Montesquieu , * II ne s' agit de faire lire , mais de faire penser . " *
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Art . III . —A Sermon delivered at the Ordination of the Rev . Jared Sparks , to the Pastoral Care of the First Independent Church in Baltimore ,
Ma ?/ 5 , 181 & By William Ellery Charming , Minister of the Church of Christ , in Federal Street , Boston . 8 vo . pp . 7 % . Baltimore , printed 1819 .
fl ^ HIS is an able and eloquent de-JL fence of Unitarianism * which will , we doubt not , make a deep impression upon the American public . With the exception of perhaps one passage relating- to the efficacy of the death of Christ , Mr . Channing ' s
statements and arguments are such as the Unitarians of this country are accustomed to put forth and approve ; and vve hear with great satisfaction that there is an intention of publishing an English edition < $ f the sermon at Liverpool .
Mr . Cbanning thus expresses the faith of the Transatlantic Unitarians with respect to the person of Christ : " Having" thus given our views of the unity of God , I proceed to observe , that * £ * believe in the unity of Jesus Christ We believe that Jesus in one mind , one
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soul , one being " , as truly one as we are , and equally distinct from the one God . We complain of the doctrine of th « Trinity , that , not satisfied with making- God three beings , it makes Jesus Christ two being's , and thus introduces infinite confusion into
our conceptions of his character . r This corruption of Christianity , alike repugnant to common sense , and to the general strain of Scripture , is a remarkable proof of the power of a false philosophy in disfiguring the simple truth of Jesus .
< c According" to this doctrine , Jesus Christ , instead of being one mind , one conscious intelligent principle , whom we can understand , consists of two souls , two minds , the one divine , the other human ; the one weak , the other almig-hty ; the one ignorant , the other omniscient . Now we maintain , that this is to make Christ two
beings . To denominate him one person , one being , and yet to suppose him made up of two minds , infinitely different from each other , is to abuse and confound language , and to throw darkness over all our conceptions of intelligent natures . According" to the common doctrines , each of these two minds in Christ has its own
consciousness , its own will , its own perceptions . They have in fact no common properties . The divine mind feels none of the wants and sorrows of the human , and the human is infinitely removed from the ' perfection and happiness of the divine . Can you conceive of two beings in the
universe more distinct ? We have always thought that one person was constituted and distinguished by one consciousness . The doctrine , that one and the same person should have two consciousnesses , two wills , two souls infinitely different from each other , this we think an enormous tax on hnman credulity . —Pp . 19 , 20 .
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Art . IV . —The Causes f Evils and /? emedy of False Shame in the Affairs of Religion : a Sermon delivered June 30 , 181 9 > before the Southern Unitarian Society , By John Evans ,
A . M . 12 mo . pp . 34 . Is . . Eaton . r |^ HE author of the " Sketch of the . My Denominations of the Christian World , " a work which has contributed much to the spirit of liberality that prevails amongst ; young" persons , has here avowed ** Unitarian ism , in the most comprehensive sense of the
word , " including " the Unity of God , the Placability of thfe Divine Character , and the Remedial Efficacy of Future Punishment' * ( p . 18 ) . He treats tfiese as doctrines of which the believers ought not to be ashamed , but which , on the contrary , they 4 t should be careful to propens . " And
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Review . —Chunnmg s Sermon at Baltimore , - * -Evans ' s at Lewes . £ 95
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/47/
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