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    ^ pMU ° ^ P ^ r ^ M ^ J * a $$ ^ learn not only the construction of syllogisms , ^ ut afeo thq n ^ euning of ierips ^ We . recommend the following articles as necessary stock in trade , if he intend to

    oursue the metaphysical line , namely , an English Dictionary , a Treatise on Logic , and a competent and faithful surveyor of his manuscript . If he had been thus properly set up in his business , he wqulcj not have presented the public with these specimens of language and reasoning .

    P . 8 . " The Christian , who seeks happiness in God , not only enjoys his preset * ce here , but he has the fee simple efjgli cityi in rich reversion in eternity * P . 13 . CiC In the beginning was the word . * Now that which was in

    existence at the beginning , existed antecedently to the beginning ; and that which existed antecedently to the beginning , must haVe been without a beginning ; and that which wa * without a beginning * ihiwt be eternal—and a Being who is eternal must be God . "

    P . 87 . 4 < Now a perfect being cannot £ * i * and he who cannot err , can neither do nor say any thing tjiat is wrong ; and consequently , he can find neither inducement nor occasion to falsify his word . Truth , therefore , must he essential to the nature of that Being who cannot possibly deviate from it . *

    P . 2 <) 9 Mr . Drew argues that God could justly pardon transgressors " . through a medium , * and then after a parade of syllogisms , concludes ^ changing both ibe terms and the question , that u it is ju 9 t in him to accept the i ? mocent in

    tfie room of t / ie guilly ; and consequentl y ^ the injustice of the action wholly * disappears , ' * P . 12 . Where was Mr . Drew ' s New Testament when he could venture to put upon paper the following assertion , with the

    monstrous , but unmeaning inference sit tkc concutsitoYx ? ' ;

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    « His' * ( Chrises ) " powcr ^ . | e . cia / ed was inherent ; it \^ as iri himietf . It was tibt derived * *? lv ^ ai ihde ^ ri < Iant and essential to hb nature . Christ was therefore either a great i ^ % po $ ior 9 or his pretensions to that exalted

    character which he asmmed , were real , and consequently 1 he was—~ tkt Chrtit , the Son of God . " Pp . ] r 3 , 17 . As Mr . Drewfor . got scripture when he penned the last passage , so he forgot that passage when he wrote the paragraph , numbered 9 * on these

    pages . c The term Son includes a relative idea , which implies priority of existence in the Father , and tubsequency of existence in the Son . He who h a Father , must ats a Father necessarily be older than his son "— " It therefore

    does not appear that any being who it a son , can , as a son , be eternal . ' ——•• The term Son according to thS rtkkive ideas which we attach to it , seems therefore totally inapplicable to Christy whin we speak of his divinity , , ' * After this , by what btandanl of orthodoxy will Mr * Dielvir pr ^ ve himseU sound in faitU ? : - t

    P . 28 . ¦ pi d / 3 M r ^ . 4 . ^ re ^ f ^ ; . the following as a ^ scri ^ tulra ^ as a ** philosophical 11 argument 1 " A finite Being can perform only A Unite work . But Jeiuswho * hc » Te 4 ——

    , — — * - - — — — V I I - . r ~ - ^ J ^ H ^ — L ^^ ,-J I I PM the mountain from a sinking world , com pressed within the sliort ^ peribd of three painful hours , those sitjferin ^ s Mick it would otherwise havttatim tfye mUtioti * of the human race an eternity to . endute *

    Mr , Prout seems fo concede the character of philosopher to his frierid Drew , but to smile somewhat archly at the application of philosophy to the doctriin ^ s of tbfr Pivitmy of Christ and the A tonement \ He appears to ^ by far the better reasoraer , though be

    makes no affectation of logic or metaphysics ; arid without qafcstipii he is irj £ oroparably before the piiik 3 opb « r of St . Austett in kn ***

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/50/