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don of which ever entered into their imaginations ; not a single trace of ' which is to be discovered in their discourses ' and writings ; and from the very idea of which
they would have recoiled with horror *"—Leaving the dashing assertions in the latter part of these quotations , to be reprobated as they deserve , by every reader of the New Testament , whose mind
is not deeply tainted with prejudice , I proceed with the biographer ' s account o £ the ** Plea . " Of this curious Trinitarian and Sabellian performance , so argumentative and so void of argu-Kteivt , so liberal , candid ,
dogmatical and self-sufficient , we are further informed , that , although , as we have seen , the learned Trinitarians of a former age would have blushed to avow it , " the learned Trinitarians of the present age , both in the established church and
out of it , honoured it with their most marked approbation , and " courted the acquaintance of the author , ' * and that "it was pretty generally agreed that the Plea was the best defence of the Divinity of
Christ which had been published . " If the reader can comprehend this u mixture of jarring and incon - sistent opinions / ' ( to borrow the language of the biographer ) or from such a statement , form any just
* It ought to be carefully noted , that the grand doctrine of the 4 < Plea' * is that of the " Deity uniting himself to the man Jesus Christ ; and in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead , " and from which , -whatever alteration might
take place in some of the author ' s explanations respecting it , there is no evidencc he ever departed- See the Pica ;* 4 th Ed * p . 173 , and Mr . Robinson ' s letter to Mr Lucas , written in the last year of his life , —MwccJl . Works , vol . iv . p . * 89 .
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Vf idea of the " Plea , " he must possess a facultv of which 1 have no conception . It must , indeed , appear surprising to Mr . Belsham , that a performance * fc in point of
argument , so egregiously trifling , " should have drawn forth * a profusion of compliments / ' from so many learned men ; and that one
in particular , the intimate friend of Mr . Lindsey , tc the learned Archdeacon Blackburne , " should rank amongst its warmest admirers . That admiration was too con .
spicuous to escape the notice of the biographer : but , that his readers might be guarded , in due time , from paying too much attention to the Archdeacon ' s judgment , we are told in the outset , —» < c This learned and eminent
divine , tt is plain , had paid more attention to the subject of Christian liberty than of theological controversy . " I must , however , confess , that on a perusal of his writings , and after attending to the evidence produced by Mr . B « to me it is plain , " that the learned Archdeacon had paid almost as much attention to " theological
controversy , " in general , and to the controversy more immediately alluded to , in particular , as the learned biographer . The high panegyrics passed on the 4 C Plea /' the serious examination of its
arguments , the number of texts consulted , the eager and industrious researches respecting any answer which might have escaped him , — all these circumstances , detailed by Mr . Belsham , afford demonstrative evidence of the Archdeacon ' s
close and long « continued attention to this important subject . Our author add * , — " It doe * not appear whether tfee Archdea-
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On Mr . Belsham ' * Account of R . Robinson . 19
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/19/
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