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* vav in looking over the religious articles ; nat for the sake of' depreciating its nature , but " of calling the attention of the conductor to a department of the work , which , though filled lip on a liberal plan , seems to have been executed hitherto hastily , if aiot incompetently . Under the head Arians * the
principal writers of ft hat dcnomiaiation are specified . The article thus concludes : " Dr . Price has -been [ is ] one of the last writers in behalf of tkis doctrine : in his sermons ' On the Christian Doctrine , ' will be found an able defence of low Arianism . See also a tract
published in 1805 , by -Basanistes / Few readers would be able to find out the tract thus loosely
referred to *— no title , no pub ~ lisher : and all would suppose that it contained a defence , or exposition , at least , of the Arian hypothesis . No such thing . The pamphlet does not at all relate to Arianism : it is an ironical attempt to prove the divinity of Moses , and the quaternity of the Godhead , It is certainly ingenious , Ixqt irony on so serious a subject may be thought misplaced , and
irony through-nearly two hundred pages cannot fail bf becoming wearisome . As a jeu d ' esprit , this- argument um ad absurdum tells very well > n the ¦** Table of Evidences of the Divinity of Moses / ' appended to " Gregory JBlunt ' s Six More Letters to
Granville Sharp ; " but this wire-drawing of the joke is as dull as the second volume of the " Miseries of Human life . " The public are , * f < me may conclude so from their ^ silence , of' this opinion . . The irapt however is durious . Jt was written I believe , by an -Uni-
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tarian Clergyman . The title is" AIPESEI 2 N ANASTA 2 IX , or , A New Way of Deciding Old -Controversies . By Basanistes . Johnson , 1805 . " Whether I have given a true character of this pamphlet or not the reference to it in Air . Nichot
soivs Encyclopedia is a proof either of great ignorance or of culpable haste ; and the error should be ^ acknowledged in , the next part of the work .
The account of the Baptists is drawn up in a truly Catholic te $ nper . A well deserved compliment is paid to the late Mr . Robinson of Cambridge , > o which is subjoined a glowing anticipation ^ which would have done honour
even to Robinson ' s pen , of " that happy day 5 when no man shall he excliOded from the right hand ctf fellowship , because ite cannot believe in dogmas of self-create 4 censors ^ and who cannot join in the ceremonies ^ ifor which there is no direct sanction in the New
Testament . " But the conclusion of the articl-e contains a striking misrepresentation . " The Baptists in England /* it is said , ** fomi one of the three
denominations of Protestant Dissenters , and are divided into particular and general ; the former are Calvinistical and Trinitarians ; the latter are Arnainians * and sonic
very few Arians , but the greater part are Unitarians with regard to the person of Christ , considering him as a man , the son of Joseph and Mary . " The General Baptists will consider themselves wronged
bythis statement . They are , it is true , Arminians , but one hali at least of them are Trinitarians ; and more than one half of the rejnsiiiuter 5 ue Arians ; and of the
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300 Theological Errors in * fcic 7 i 6 lson ' s * Nexv British Cyclopedia . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/8/
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