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Two other tracts are appended to the copy of the work before us , called forth by local circumstances ; in which , in the same independent tone , the author prolongs the discussion . Addressing his orthodox friends , he charges them with setting the Epistles
of Paul , and the anonymous Epistle to the Hebrews , above the Gospel of Jesus . Defending the consistency of Paul on the one hand , he declares distinctly , that he would , in case of any real discrepancy , quit the banner of the Apostle , and betake himself to that of his greater Master .
Such then is the Trinitarian Investigator ; such the Unlearned Layman . Surely such a mode of conducting controversy must have its use . Fearless and downright , it is neither dazzled by the splendour of authority , nor checked by the prejudices of early association . Everything is reduced to its simple meaning , and doctrines are traced into their consequences . The author comes with a fresh mind to his subject , and exhibits it frequently in a new light . He
is , however , sometimes excessive in his illustrations ; he knows not where to have done when a popular error is to be exposed . His work also is hard reading . It was obviously the aim of the author to write no useless word ; so that every period claims an unusual share of thought and attention . Such a work , however , with a few omissions , and such amplifications as would give it a more popular character , would be of signal service .
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It is a happy world after all . The air , the earth , the water , teem with delighted existence . "—Paley ' s Nat . Theol . I looked on the morn—on the balmy morn When the sunbeams danced on the waving corn , And the east was tinned with a golden hue , And the meadows glittered with pearls of dew ,
And the birds that peopled each shrub and tree Were warbling 1 their tuneful melody : And I said can it be , that the Author of these Is a God of vengeance that none can appease ? Oh ! think ' st thou not that they clearly prove His infinite mercy and endless love ?
'Twas noon—and the freshness of morn was gone , Yet strong and brilliant the sunbeams shone , And a flood of glory around them streamed ,
And the air with delightful fragrance teemed ; All cloudless and pure was the azure sky , And nature was vocal with strains of joy . I said 09 > n it be * that the Author of these Is a God of vengeance that pone can appease ? Are they not blessings designed to prove A Father 8 mercy- —a , Father * $ Ipve ?
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186 The Trinitarian Investigator .
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THE LIGHT OF NATURE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/42/
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