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    rthie doctrines have been very generally k lieve d 'among- the nations of the Eastern world , is asserted with equal confidence , flW bv a nnmejous train of esteemed and popular authors . ' The tare Dr . Claudius BiiefiaiisHi in particular , whose authority Meeting facts uf this nature stands in the hi ^ lifst repute , and whose information

    wsis received a few years since with an avidity and admitation rarely paralleled , states that the ideas of a Tri-une God , and of ( he Incarnation and Atonement of the Second Person , are current throughout almost the wh <> le of Asia . * What a glaring inconsistency is it , to call these the * Peculiar Doctrines of Christianity ^ and

    yet to attempt the confirmation of them by citing the Jongf-estaWished convictions of innumerable heathen nations !"—Pp . 5—7 . After a few further remarks upon the prevalence of these ideas among the Heathens , tending to shew that , even if they belong to Christianity , still they are not confined to Christianityy Mr . Yates proceeds to state some

    important principles which are not only maintained by Christians of every denomination to be parts of their system , but which never formed a part of any other system , and which , the restore , have a strict and i n disputable claim to be regarded as Peculiarities of the gospel . These are the

    dortrine of the Resurrection of the Dead ; the doctrine that the Love of God is the First and Greatest Commandment ; and the injunction of IViversal Philanthropy . On these topics the preacher dwells with much

    seriousness and judgment . He fully establishes his point , and concludes with an animated and powerful appeal to his auditory on behalf of pure Christianity , and of those institutions which guard and promote it . For its excellence as a composition , and for tlie comparative novelty and , at the

    from our evangelical law , as their manner ?! fcssion , ' iheir adoration of Three in JH and such like ; the which , against e WlU of tlie enemy , have holpen for the ^ . eceivit ^ () f Ihe truth / * fcee also ihe History of California , by J * S » S Vol . I . pp 88 , 92 , English by ih £ and tlle History of America , tt w ^ Tr altIloIl tf * V as we might lmve Jifc is ° au hetfirodox philosopher , Wt £ **} * ve »* y sceptical upon the sub . ^ ailn the East , 7 th Edition , 1810 . "

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    Art . 1 V . —Letters from Lexirigton and the Illinois f containing a Brief Account bf the English Settlement in the Latter Territory , and a

    Refutation of the Misrepresentations of Mr CdbbeiL By Richard Flower , 8 vo . pp . 32 . Is . ) 819 . MR . RICHARD FLOWER ia an old correspondent of ours , and is well known to / many of our readers . He is one of the late Illinois

    settlers , and his account of the settlement is interesting frgm his intelligence and probity . " On a tract ofland from the Little Wabash to the Borapar on the Great Wabashj about seventeen miles irt width , and four to siX / from north to south , there were but a few hunters * cabins , a vear and a ii-aif sinee , \ and

    now there are about sixty English families , containing nearly four hundred souls ; and one hundred aud fifty American , containing about seven hundred ' souls . " P . 24- Already a

    capital is rising , named Albion . A market house is built , and an jnn and a place of worship are building , the latter intended also for a library . Of

    the land , Mr . Flower , who i& a practical agriculturist , speaks in terms of high praise , as he does also of the climate . Indeed , his picture of the country altogether is very invitmg ,

    and will , we annrehoHcL to . mnt manv and will , we apprehend , tempt many an industrious family to follow his steps . The neighbouring capital of Lexington is , as Mr . Flower says ' , p . 1 O ;

    " a phenomenon in the history of the world . Twenty-five y £ arsf since , it was trodden only by the foot of the savage ; now it contains about three thousand inhabitants . " It has «« a

    college , at which are already one hundred and forty students . " Tea-parties , balls , routs , an Athenaeum and a Museum , have taken the place of log cabins and Indian hunts . But slavery is forcibly denounced by this write * as the opprobrium of Kentucky .

    The American character generally has made ? a favourable' impressioi ^ upori Mr . Flovvei ' s mind . He speaks * With fcefin ^ s natural to an English Protestant Dissenter off the exemption

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    same time , the cfrninfeht importance of the subject , the sermon deserves tb be widely circulated by means of Unitarian , missionaries and Book Societies .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 763, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/47/