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caa Bcarcely believe that their national festivals were celebrated with such a high-wrought enthusiasm , and such a renunciation of all selfishness and animosity as are here ascribed to them . But we must allow an author to
ennoble what he finds a delight in describing ; and we can readily forgive an error on the side of praise , in respect to a people whom it haa sometimes been deemed a point of duty by Christians to paint in the blackest colours . Great taste and devotional
feeling has been shewn in the manner in which quotations from Scripture , especially from the Psalms , are introduced , arid the best modern versions have been every where followed . Should the book ever be rendered
accessible to English readers , it will be foun 4 a very pleasing medium of conveying historical , geographical and antiquarian knowledge , and will gratify the taste while it improves the heart . K .
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22 Baptismal Commission Reftege of TrinUariariism .
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Sir , HAT can account for the pre-Wvalence , at the present day , amongst Protestants of that most marvellous modification of the Christian
faith yclept Trinitarianisin ? " Thinks I to myself , " the other day , as I sat revolving in my mind the unvaried , uniform and iterated averments of its Divine " Author and Finisher . " " Why callest thou me good ? None is good but one , that is God . " ' * I ascend to
my God . " " The words I speak unto you , I speak not of myself . " ' The Father that dwelleth in me , he doeth the works . " " The Son can do nothing of himself . " " I live by the Father . " ff My Father is greater than I . " " He that hath seen me hath seen the
Father . " To sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give /* But I might , literally speaking , transcribe , as every reader of his Bible well kiiows , a considerable proportion of our blessed Saviour ' s discourses into your pages , before I had exhausted the Son's attestations to his inferior
rity to the Father , his nothingness without Him , and but for Him . As fylly impressed with the divinity he claimed as with that be disclaimed , " Is it possible /* I caught myself vociferating , " is it possible , that men .
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sincerely believing themselves the disciples of Christ , can honestly , so sophisticate almost eveiy word they admit him to have uttered on the subject of his relation to God , as to fasten
upon him the blasphemy of his being the compeer of God ? " But my momentary bigotry brought a blush into my cheek , and with sincere compunction and shame let me now record my " wonder" at the almost unanimous
faith of Christendom . It is indeed true , that prescription , establishment , fashion , will , to multitudes , in every age , make black white , and white black : but even among the 6 t noXKoi of believers are there not to be found
thousands and tens of thousands who attach all the credit and conclusiveness that the most devoted inquirers after divine truth alone can attach to every insulated asseveration of the " Teacher come from God , " as well as to the whole tenour of his doctrine ,
and yet , upon his own supposed shew * ing , coequalize , not identify , him with his Father and his God ? In the opinion of such disciples at his feet as these , he must , somewhere or other , have either explained away these categorical depositions of unqualified
subjection to , of absolute depeadance on , " the only true God , " or have tauglit also some antagonistical doctrines , so utterly ii * reconcileable with tfeetf naked meaning , as to warrant tmy possible evaaion of' it . For any such direct contradictory elucidations I look , however , in vain : indeed , I am riot aware
that the stoutest-hearted champions of creed and articles-theology have gone so far as to assert , that what he who " spake as none ojther man spake , '' said at one time , he directly unsaid at another . We must , therefore , have recourse to the remaining 1 member of the alternative for the
solution of our problem . And here , let me avow , however little creditable to my judgment the avowal may be deemed , that in a solitary , quite anomalous text , I , for one , do recognise an
apology for almost any bujt a , perverse or ludicrous interpretation of our Saviour ' s aasertion , s in the passages enumerated , and in others of a like import- * The Baptiamaj text I * never - - - ¦¦ .... , . . . Li - t , r * I have never read the admirable dissertation of Tyrrwhitt on this tt ^ t ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1823, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1780/page/22/
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