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ter dated 1725 , charged him with making " the Divinity of Christ to evaporate into a mere attribute , " and after jeering at his professed love of truth , writes to
him thus : * It is a . pity after you have been more than thirty years a teacher of others , you are yet to learn the first principles of the oracles of God . Was Dr . Owen ' s
church to he taught another Jesus ? that the Son and Spirit were only two powers in the divine nature ? " * Bradbury , as Mr . P , intimates , f was a slave u to human systems . * " and the manner
in which he treated the gentle JVatts , was extremely reprehensible . Yet if " the sum" ! of Watts * s ' sentiments respecting the divinity of Christ and of the Spirit was , that Christ is a divine
person , in consequence of the indwelling of the Father , and that the Holy Spirit is God , as being the power or active energy of the Deity , " Bradbury has done them fto injustice .
It hence appears , Sir , on the face of Mr . Palmer ' s pamphlets , that between the years 1721 and 1-72 S , that is for several years \> efare his death , Di \ Watts h $ d
departed most considerably from , the standard of popular belief with regard to the Trinity ^ had avowed opinions which , so far a £ they relate to the object of worship and the person of Jesus Christ , are
little , if at all , short of proper Unitarianism , I shall next refer ypu to the st ^ te of hi $ miud ^ upon this question , at I s , ? e it cli ^ . closed in his correspondedc # *
du-\ - * •* - * ? Jfotc $ , &c . g& . f Ib .. 9 & » v 4 Appendix , which preserve * a curious paper , entitled . $ y Mr * p . J ® r mft ifx * Sentiment * alaut tjie Holy Spirit .
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ring the year 1738 , with Mr . Martin Torakins : and here I shalf rectify what I conceive to be a mistake of Mr . Palmer ' s , who , in his zeal to correct an inaccuracy
supposed to be exhibited by his " friend Belsharo" ( Letters , &c . p . 6 , note ) , has subjected him * self , I think , to the charge of either forgetfulness or inadvertence .
The author of the Memoirs of Lindscy had said of Dr . Watts ( 216 ) , iC His well known volume of Hymns and Spiritual Songs , so much used in Calvinistic congregations , was published when he was very young , and contains
many expressions , and many sentiments from which , though regarded by great numbers as the standard of Christian verity , his judgment revolted in maturer years , and which he would gladly
have altered if he had been permitted by the proprietors of the copyright , who knew their own interest too well to admit the proposed improvements . " In answer , Mr . Palmer allows that < 4 there
is some truth in the above passage , ' * but , for the sake of proving " that it is not perfectly correct / ' he appeals to an extract given , in the Appendix , from a MS . of Watts * s , in his possession , in the Doctor ' own hand writing ,
and adds , ** The Doctor expresses his satisfaction in letting things remain as they were . * Now , Sir , this extract , which makes part oi a reply to a long epistle of Mr . Tomkins , is as follows :
% t I freely answer , I wish some things were corrected . But the question with me is this : as 1 wrote them in sincerity at that time , is it not more for the edification of Christians , and the glory of God to tet then * st * a < j ^ tjmn *•
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770 Strictures on a recent Publication of Jdr . Palmer ' sm Ko m IT *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 770, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/18/
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