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I Watts , afterwards submittedthem to the inspection and disposal of the Drs . Jennings and Doddridge .. Mr . Palmer himself
has not seen a > i * i * the M . SS . of this popular divine . Yet from some which have subsequently been laid before the world , he infers , in his Letters ( 31 , 32 ) and in another world " , that the Doctor ' s unpublished papers afford much
" the same explanations of the Deity of Christ and the Spirit " with those given in the pieces which he himself last printed . 44 The sum of which is that Christ
is a divine person in consequence of the in-dwelling of the Father , and that the Holy Spirit is God , as being the ppwer or active energy of the Deity . "X But had not Lardner an equal right with his
censor tor dedfticfc an inference concerning tbe . tenor of ail the M . SS . fro ^ n his perusal of some of them , —sucK , iOr example , as the
Solemn Address ? fyc . ? Thus far at least ,, i j he not ^ as thoroughly competent ^ jp ^ ge ?" " ( 4 ) " These letters of Dr . Lard .
m /[ adcjls Mr . P . ( 14 ) " are not written in a mariner very creditable to him , but . discover something like th ^ t imbecility which he reports of Dr . Watts . They are
certaijijy destitute of that accuracy andpjecision . by which his writings , in general are distinguished , so that it is not easy to gather any clepr consistent ideas from ttam . " < of
The te ^ ti jpap ^ j ; thi s respectaWe m ^ cijs I , adinij ^ is concise ; for it is a si ^ jp le ^ tateaientlof what ^ believed to be a fact . Even ^ vPgimer acknowledges ( p . i ' , ) ^ atit 13 " accompanied with clrt AppendiK , &c . t Ib .
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cumstantial evidence ; " and where is the difficulty of gaining ** clear , consistent ideas" from the
declaration that " Dr . Watts ' s last thoughts were completely Unitarian ? ' * Who can doubt that Lardner affixed an accurate and precise sense to the word , and never confounded it with the term Sucinian ?
( 3 ) But we are told ( ib . ) that ** the proof of what he asserts is very defective . Here is little more than positive assertion made
and repeated that Dr . Watts was an Unitarian , without defining the sense , in which ( as Mr . Merivale justly observed ) there is some am * DJguity . "
" Mr . Merivale was very well aware in how strict a sense the Doctor * generally used it . " Why then should he have suspected that his correspondent deviated from this strictness in the present
instance ? Or why should Mr * Palmer , who can be no stranger to Lardiier * s writings , consider the word Unitarian as ambiguous ? At any rate , it is equivalent ,. , ia
this connection , with Antitrinitarian ; though the very valuable person upon whom the ambiguity is charged , was accustomed to employ the name in a less general signification .
( 4 ) In the letter writersjuqgment , Dr . Lardner ' s testimony is far from being decisive of Watts having given up the tenet of Christ ' s pre-existence ( 15 ) . Surely , even the former of the two communications should have
obviated all doubts upon this point . Mr . Merivale baying mentioned , in hi& correspondence with Lardner , tlfe . di % i } l iy of , &xing fej ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ BW ^^ W ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^ ' *** - 5 S , " A ""' w _ Ji 9 Lardner .
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Strictures on a recent Publication of Mr . Palmer ' s . —No . I . 717
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v wt . viii . 5 a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 717, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/25/
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