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which was equivalent to moral guilt , because so impressed upon the minds of the whole Jewish nation ; in this article , so essential to the main purpose 6 > e that remembered ) of their peculiar and conspicuous station , David might aptly be deemed a man after God ' s own heart , whence Saul had excluded himself by a contrary deportment ; and this difficult passage , as many have sneeringly affected to consider it , is thus resolved into an explication simple , concise and
satisfactory . I am aware of Bishop Porteus ' s elaborate discussion of the subject , notwithstanding which , this compendium of its leading features may not be unacceptable .
BKEVIS . P . S . A writer in the European Magazine , descanting on the merits and defects of the Rev . Edward Irving , and noticing a rich harvest of both , is pleased to observe ,
" Mr . I . omits no opportunity of exposing and refuting the errors and anomalies of Unitarianism ; he resolutely and skilfully unravels the web which it has spun around Christianity , and displays its close affinity to Deism . "
The novelty of the above insinuation is amusing . Unitarianism would divest Christianity of certain articles , which its professors conceive to liave been superinduced , but which their orthodox brethren consider as properly belonging to , and essentials of
it , —and therein the parties should agree to differ ; but this is the first time , I believe , that Unitarians have been charged with wrapping it in a web ; which , if the language have any meaning , can only mean the surrounding of it with human additions , the
very complaint which Unitarians have advanced against their opponents , and found themselves upon . Unitarianism professes at least—justly or otherwise , no matter;—but it professes to strip Christianity of the web in which its simple and sublime truths have been
trapped and obscured , and to disclose them in the naked simplicity of their promul gation , cleared of the extrinsic articles which human ingenuity has worked into the system , from tijpe to tl , since ( and partly 4 uru * ffX $ »© age of the apostles . . In brief , Uuita-
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rianisin would recover the Christian world to a creed that can be worded in scriptural terms— -and anchor there . Even what is called the Apostles ' Creed , admitted into our orthodox
Liturgy , whatever repugnancies disfigure it , is , in ' relation to the Divinity , a Unitarian creed . What web of sophistry , therefore , it may be fearlessly asked , have Unitarians ever been tempted , or found occasion to wind around primitive Christianity ?
Unitarianism embraces revelation . Deism repudiates it . Such is their close affinity ! Is the proclaimed hostility of the Rev . Edward Irving to be regretted £ B .
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Sir , HAVE but lately seen a criticism I in the Eclectic Review upon Mr . Bowling ' s " Matins and Vespers . " I know it has already had some portion of animadversion , but still think it
due to the Unitarian cause , to Mr * Bowring ' s reputation , and to the cause of fair criticism , that the cant , hypocrisy , misrepresentation and ignorance of this article should receive a greater measure of just retribution . Fortunately this writer has furnished his readers , if they are thinkers too ,
with a sufficient antidote in the long quotations he has made from the work he condemns . The charges which this Reviewer makes against these poems may be separated into five distinct accusations ; and upon each of these , I propose to shew that the character I have given of his
critique , though strongly expressed , is richly merited . First then , ut <( in media arma ruamus , " he asserts that " a Deist may have been the author of almost any and every Matin and Vesper in the 5
present collection / This is said of poems which recognize in the plainest terms the divine mission of Jesus , which dwell with rapture on the
advantages of revelation , which are constantly transferring tnoughts and hopes to eternity , and vinhich are perpetually reposing trust on the promises of Goa . This I will establish by quoting a few passages , and as many of these poems have already appeared in your pages , I will afterward ? quote no more .
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On the Eclectic Review of Bowing ' s Poems . 62 ? ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/11/
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