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ties '* are not unnoticed by Mr . Palmer . J * A gentleman of veracity ( Notes , 99 , &c *) who had seen the papers to which the Solemn Address was prefixed , assured the writer
of Dr * Watts no Socinian that they appeared to him to contain nothing new , being only a further illustration of his || sentiments concerning the Trinity . * On the other hand , Lardner , who had
met with some of those M . SS ., declares , after his perusal of them , that the last sentiments of Dr . W . were completely Unitarian . I am not impeaching the veracity
of the anonymous informant , when I ask , t / tri creditis , Quiri ~ tes ? But surely I may be allowed to suspect his accuracy , when I contrast the purport and the man - ner of his evidence with those of
the declaration of the author of the Credibility , & ; c . Of the Solemn Address Mr , Palmer remarks ( Notes , ib- ) * ' This piece is evidently of the same complexion with what the
Doctor had before published , and therefore most undoubtedly that was the case vyith the other papers V ) hic ? i were suppressed , to which this was prefixed . ** The conclu . sion is too strong and positive for
the premises . For the confident superlative most undoubtedly , the words not improbably should have been employed . But * however this be , I cannot , Sir , agree with . Mn Palmer that the Solemn Ad *
dress ** is evidently of the same complexion with what the doctor had before published . " On reading it , you will mark the increased scepticism of the writer with re-» - ¦ - - ¦ . - j hut ¦ . _ t Letters , &c . 25 . JWatts ' s .
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lation to the received tenet and his greater solicitude to approve himself a consistent believer in the Divine Unity . It is a document of much importance to my purpose .
This prayer ( for such it is ) the pious author presents to the One God , even the Father . Concerning any prior state of Jesus Christ he maintains a deep silence : not
does he ascribe to him essential , but only communicated , deity , in which manner he explains those passages in the N . T . that speak of the union of Christ with God .
But he acknowledges his dark * ness still . " He is earnestly yet humbly solicitous to know what share the Son and the Spirit can have in the Divinity of the Father : and he asks , ie Is it a vain and sinful curiosity to desire to have this article set in such a
light as may not diminish the eternal glory of the unity of the true God , nor of the supremacy of thee the Father of all V In this investigation , however , it is his wish to follow the evidence furnished by the scriptures , in reading and searching which volume he
was conscious of a diligence , regularity and care , for which he appeals to his Ever Present Witness ! One part of the Address is singularly affecting . It appears that the doubts and perplexities of
this good man in respect of the popular doctrine of the Trinity * had almost ended in his rejection of revelation , from which sad determination , nevertheless , he had been happily preserved :
u Great God , who seest all things thou hast beheld what busy temptations have been often fluU tering about my heart , to call it
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775 Strictures on a recent Publication of Mr . Palmer ' s . No . II .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 775, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/22/
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