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    Review . —Drevi aitcl \ tNitf oti tfriilartiinisift . 49 $

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    ledge of ih& scriptures . A fey brief extracts will convince the reader that Mr . Front is fully eqtiipped for the field , aftd more tftan a match for his assumiag neighbour , P . 7 . Mr . Prout here gives the answer of common sense to all ijie arguments for mystery from our ignorance .

    : «* It if vain for the Trinitarian to tfdk Qf our want of comprehension relative to the " quintessence of a pebble on the shore or a blade of grass . When he can ? prove that three pebbles are but ae pebble— -that three blades of grass

    are but one blade of grass—then the cates wiH become exactly parallel ; but this cannot be proTcd , because it is a contradiction . " \ J ^ , t £ ^ 1 $ . Mr . JPf out ' s cru tH 2 isn ^ H ; onr Jofin i . 1 , goes farther

    towards the ; discovery of 4 is mean , irig tEaff 0 tae whole voluinos that we have seWn upon the Logos . <^ I % N * afbstl ^« ays , * The Word was wiifctjod ^ afrd common sense remarks upon it ; if one ; real being be with ano'ther real being * there must be tw * real $ iing & '; " consequently , if the word bttnci * ^ teirnat Gbdi * and the word was

    with God , it irresistibly follows , cither that he wa £ the « M ? ie God with whom Kc : ^ vas , wjiicfci is absolutel y impossi-^ V f r x that there are two distinct $ n < l et ^ rrfal Cxbds j which is a doctrine epntrarylp right reanon , atid the uniform I ^ uagf ojf divide rcyclation . ' Mr

    P . ^ 0 ^ 0 n s incautious admis ^ ion ? which we have alre ^ y rern afked upc ^ n , Mr . Prout o ^ ryes witii eqvi al justness aud ^ xc ; e :

    > . ? ' ty $ i J * V Pfat Prfiw actually denies the p | vjn ^ v oftjbe Son of God , and fc jr jine ^ tar strbke cuts the thread of M bv ^' arj ^ m ^ nr t £ prove the Divinity ^ ' Chtist ^^ iFor fithe titles Son of God * v $ Christ , * a * -e ^ ljrtw ^ namcs for i , o ^ e SS & ^ > PS 5 ^ l ?^ i ^ i ^? : divinity or the Son of Godlie given up , tlie Diiribi ty bF Chrxki trtust T > c giveti ^ iisa ^ t ^ . j&at a * What : c 1 r « r is not xr&& of Simon is not true # f Copha » , — .

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    * being only tVo names tot $ fifc aaiiie IttdividuAl beidgi ^ » * s P . 58 . Tlie following is an acute , and by no means a cortimon t though Sn obviously just , objectfon to the worship of Jesus Christ , as God . ' * How very far men have deviated from the prirnitive simplicity of the gospel ! Instead of praying fo the Father in the name of Christ , they pray to Christ as Godj ^ - ' O Christ bear m ?

    —and are not aware , perhaps , that they are "violating his positive command aha acting inconsistent with : Christianity as a mediatorial scheme : for if they pray to Christy as God 9 they come to God without a mediator . ** '

    P . 59 * Mr > Prout gores hisoopponeut ^ quite philosopbicaUyv s&d Vve apprehend fatally '„ " Mr . Drew has got into- a dilcmota , on one of the horns of which hetmi |* t infallibly stick for ever and £ vcr * -rfpr that which is finite cannot make

    satisfaction to infinite jimice ^ tUejtff > r $ Christy the man , could not give > th «* satisfaction required ;^ that ; whfel * vM infinite andJeternal cannot die ; therefore Christ , the God , did not die on the cross and afford it : —it follows , neither the man nor the God , and therefore jt conceive , not even the God man , ever gave any satisfaction at all .

    P . 53 . We wish the reflection we areahoutto quote could react this understandings of those whom it most concerns : " * Strait is the gate and narrow is tne way that leadeth unto life / said oidir Lord : but how much narrower still is

    it made by our orthodox friends ? Far from thegeneraus latitude which it exhibits in the Evangelists—a man must ; measure exactly like themselves , in

    hcighth and in breadth , or he cannot get along this narrow way—and : little indeed must he be , both in his views of GodVgo # dncss , and in tfoe benevo * lencc of hit owri mind l " *

    Pp . 4 5—50 , contain a newr scheme of explaining the Proen ?| oif St . John * * gospel , furnished , Mr . Prout by a friend ; the p . rm-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 499, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/51/