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Saviour of the world at his word * or eVen to put ajsomewhat L iin $ tatutable tittMi ^ c m ^^ aft ^^^ cony ^^ K i * % * mms k ^ uftrpn ^ orily , fe < iteve > rywhereyfasigaininggrdtrrid ti 6 c ^ iM $ M ^ s c ^ tr ^ SwUffll pWi ptissWWcourse the profane % rnent ; ofTriri ^ equal persons thaking up the one God , declining in repuie . $ til ^ ia \ fce forlorn hojk ! not seldom nor unconsciously clung to hi the sal ^ e o ^ ( j pctrines erroneously imagined to be inseparable from it as the dividing point between
Christianity and pure Theism . In this dilemma , this critical juncture of ha # Cdfisdenti ( 3 « sly halting between two opinions , with the Baal of Tradition bdfdre him on the one side , and the God of the Scriptures on the other , how does that faith , which would fain identify itself with apostolical Unftarianistn , ordinarily meet the inquirer's eye ? Wearing , I will say , the most forbidding aspect possible , sitting in cheerless majesty over the wreck of every object of reverence and love , but one , to which he has been hitherto
accustomed in a Christian temple . Does this utter desecration now , this sfaock-smooth waste , 1 would ask , leave and present all its primitive iehnography } The answer will be variously given ; but , as one of ( he spectators of 4 the ghostly scene , I certainly think otherwise . No ! To the thesis from Which she proudly derives her name , and triumphantly mocks the contemptible ! ¦ > pfbfanation that would usurp it , let Unitarianism be ever true as the
4 i@eel $ It 6 t ; the north , and withal as unrelenting as the lightning of heaven . f tFhus far she stands on the rock of ages , beneath the eternal sunshine of ev&tfg ^ ftc al ¦ truth : but do no clouds confine its precinct save to the eye of sinister observation ? They have been espied or embodied at one time or other bf his career by almost every pilgrim who has traversed the hqly grmind for a period of now well high 2000 years ; and where , in these latter times , shall seer find the magic to dispel them from the vision pf sen ^ e
or of imagination ? A ruder hafad majf ftiultiply their nurnber or swell their volume ; but the most skilful Will profebty but vdry theif ' shapes , or change their hiies . Where there is so' rnuch abiding doul ^ t , must thfire hot be some ambiguity ? The fact of the rfelafiori ^ f Je ^ iis t ^ 66 ^ ^ ' ^ ritteri in sunbeams , and all Christenddrn ^ cbgiitees if : the ^ nid ^' b ^ that relation is so ( to
revealed , that scarcely twointelligent arid r ^ df ^ est rn ^ n ° sfttiii ^ down the question ^ is a res integra would pr ^ dsetjr a ^ t # ^^ a !^ ' ^ ' ^ a ^ his Father is also His Gou ; W ^ knd ^ v upo n h ^ s dw ^ Mh ^ ri ^ and upon that of all his apostles ; what mofrtf rieed hnj ^^ Chri ^ tiar )^ know' jto become a Unitarian in faith or worship ? Let the jppstlilate suffice ? . 'Touched by this talisman , the chimera of a tripersonal Deity vanished iiitoair : let us give the unscriptural nonsense to the winds amid the cheers of thousands of our
present opponents ; but the less our corollaries frorii this fundamental dogma invade the " majesty" of the Christ , the more and more , as most of them contend , shall we find , upon experiment , our ideas , and the language in which they are expressed , harmonize with those of its " eye-witnesses . " Upon this point are they so palpably wrong , that we should left-handedly remand them , without pang or pause , to the evil genius of pseudo-orthodoxy ? J . T . CLARKE .
$ c l [ live by the . Father . The Father that dwelleth in me , he doeth the works . The Soli can do nothiug of himself , &c . Sec . &c . * Then sfyall the { Sfln himself be * Hubject , that God may be all in all . f " £ h £ transfer of , the being jfrom tjie ^ erspq to the nature is a power of legerde - main which ' milfer surel y s ^ met ^ na ^ { iro voHe a smile out of the conjuciDg room , The >* Were iio buchka ^ rfcltoa even within , ' tjhe ' o ^ Qdox bate * for ^ 6 ut ^ rl ^ aftei tHedateurChH » tiatoty . r ™* r
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Theological Peace-making * ' 7 ^ 6
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 795, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/11/
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