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than the New Testament prescribes . Did Paul generalize Christianity or not , when he declared * : — if thou shalt confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus , and shalt believe in thine heart , that God hath raised him from the dead , . thou ' shalt be saved ?** Or did Dr . M . ever healr oi any professors of the gospel who called in question the death and resurrection of their master ^ or who did nof consider thein as evidences of liis messiahship ?
P . 11 * The lecturer looks upon the present day as < c a season , when every exertion is making by the very means of education ^ by education conducted both openly
and privately ^ to alienate the rising generation from the establishedchurch / ' Now , if this be the fact , for which nevertheless , we must take his word , let . zeal be opposed to zeal and instruction to instruction . The church of
England has , m some views , superior advantages for diffusing the blessings of education . If , therefore , its claims are founded in reason and the scripture , there can
scarcely be a doubt of its finally triumphing in the understandings and affections of the people . Has it any thing to fear from putting the primer , the spelling-book and the Testament into the hands
of children ? P . 113 . Dr . M observes that " whatever difference in other respects may exist , between the received text and the Greek manuscripts , or whatever
difference may exist among the manuscripts themselves , they all agree in the important articles of Christian faith ; they all declare with one accord , the doctrine of the trinity , and the doctrine of the atonement hy Jesus Christ * *
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Assertion may be encountered by assertion . We acknowledge ourselves unable to discover any traces of these doctrines throughout the sacred volume . Concerning the supposed personality and deity of the holy spirit ^ even the Margaret Professor is silent , in these pamphlets . And men of reputed orthodoxy hold both - the trinity and the atonement in such different senses , and with so many modifications , that simply to affirm , 1 . believe in the trinity and the atonement ^ is to pronounce a very indefinite and unsatisfactory creed ! State the
notion of a triflity as you please ; still we are persuaded that it obtains no firmer support from the New Testament than the article
ot transubstantiation . Theatonement , in its common acceptation ^ is an opinion chiefly flowing from the ' excessivezeal of the reformers against the popish dream of merit . It is never taught in the scri p * tures-f : the doctrine which they inculcate is that of reconciliation ^ in which we are as cordial believ *
ers as the Margaret Professor , P . 115 . The singular passage occurring here , one of our correspondents has placed in a light in which we could wish it to be seen by the learned Professor and by all his readeisj . We dispute not the privilege which Di \ M .
possesses , in common with every Englishman and Protestant , et $ entire quce velit et qum sentiat dicere . But the possession of a privilege is one thing : t | ie manner of exercising it is another ; nor do we think that such allegations ac cc » rd with the office of a Protestant lecturer in a Protestant
* Rom . x . 9 . t 1 Cor . v . 18 , 19 , compared ( in the original ) with Rom . v . II . \ Mon . Rep . vol . iv . 6 zi » & v . ij ? %
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Review . ^—Dr . Marsh ' s Lectures and Letter . 405
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/29/
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