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of those passages in Scripture , which concern our redemption by Christ ajs a real sacrifice , and represents the notion the Scripture gives us of these things as consistent with the dictates
of reason and natural religion . " See the Bishop of LandaflTs catalogue of books in divinity , at the conclusion of the sixth volume of his Theological Tracts . Mr . Job Orton , in one of hi *
Letters to a Young Clergyman , says , 44 me advise you to read Tomkins * s Christ the Mediator again and again , till you have well digested his scheme . It contains the best defence and explanation of the atonement I ever met with , and fully confutes all the Sorinian writers / ' This tract of
Mr . Tomkins * s came to a second edition in-1761 ; to which was then added , by another gentleman , " A a Essay to prove the Credibility of the Gospel , from the Doctrine of the Efficacy of Christ ' s Death for the Redemption of the World . "
The next work published by our Author was , € C A Calm Enquiry whether we have any Warrant from Scripture , for addressing ourselves in a way of Prayer or Praise , directly to the Holy Spirit : humbly offered to the Consideration of all Christians ,
particularly of Protestant Dissenters . Lond . 1738 . " To this tract was prefixed , A Letter to the Rev * Mr : Barker , on his continued practice . The Author was in the habit of attending on Mr . Barker ' s ministry , which on the whole he approved ,
although he w ; is dissatisfied with the doxologies which he made use of at the close of his prayers , and especially with those which he often sung from Dr . Watts ' s Psalms and Hymns , He , therefore , after complimewting him upon his ministerial abilities ,
expostulates with him for using unscriptural doxologies , particularly that of " ascribing glory to the Three Persons as the One Living and True God ; * which it seems Mr . Gibibs , Mr . Barker ' s late assistant , had also objected to , ancl for which he was dismissed from that service : a
measure that was very much against the judgment of Mr , Tor ^ kias , who publicly remonstrated against it before the congregation * In the course oif his work , Mi-. Tqinki ^ animad vert * upojn what Dr . Watte and , fyjr Watfrland had written upon the tu * bject ~
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The publication of the € f Calm Enquiry , " occasioned an epistolary cor * respondence between the Author and 0 r . Watts , which was printed in the Universal Theological Magazine , for i 80 S , and has been since reprinted in a separate pamphlet . *
It is not within the knowledge of the present writer , that Mr . Torn kins published any other works besides those above-mentioned . They alone are sufficient to hand down his name
as a man of sound learning ,- of extensive reading " , and of an amiable temper , as well as a good scripture-critic . He supported for many years an excellent character for piety , integrity , and Christian benevolence . He was a firm and consistent Protestant Dis *
senter , a determined friend to religious liberty and free inquiry , and an enemy to the imposition of creeds , or private interpretations of Scripture . Whilst he adhered to the Dissenters , however , as the avowed champions of civil and religious liberty , he was not blind to the inconveniences that
attached to their system , some of which he has unfolded in the Letter to Mr . Barker above-mentioned . Upon the whole , he appears to have been an able writer , a consistent Christian , and an upright , independent man . Mr . Tomkins died some time in the
year 1755 . Long after his death there appeared in " The Theological Repository" , HI . 257 * " A Letter from Mr . Tomkins to Dr . Lardner , in reply to his Letter on the Logos ; ia Defence of the Arian hypothesis . " W . W . Luftpn , Sept . 20 , 181 9 *
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Mr , Bebham on the Original Principle vf the Unifarian Society . Q 57
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E ? £ ex Street ; Si r , October £ 2 , 1819 . IT gave me great pleasure to learti that the proposal which was lately ,
and , as I conceive , inadvertently brought forward at the last meeting of the Western Unitarian Society at Bath , to alter the preamble to the Society ' s Rules , so as to include
Anti-Trinitarians , met with so little countenance from the majority of that Society , and that it was so speedily and so handsomely withdrawn by those of pur friends who , under a f § € f some account of tlii * Coirespond « nce , Vol . VIII . p . * 70 . E » .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 657, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/5/
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