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feet what the Dean of Cork wishes his readers to imagine , nothing would be easier than to adduce proofs of the regard of Unitarians for Chubb ' s character and works ; a task from which our author very discreetly shrinks . Intent , how-6
evei > upon identifying * the Socinian , or Unitarian'' with the Deist , he retails from Leslie the solemn address of the English Unitarians to the Mahometan
Ambassador of Morocco , in the reign of Charles the Second . There is strong evidence to conclude thai this address has been fabricated , for the purpose of inflaming men ' s prejudices against Unitarian Christians . *
Being as firmly persuaded as Dr . M . or his most orthodox hearers and readers , of" the con . sistency of prayer with the Divine Immutability * ' we are not called upon to do more than copy the title of No . VIII .
Although the ensuing note ( IX ) is- * an the granting of the Divine forgiveness through a mediator or intercessor , " the greater part of it treats of the efficacy of intercessionary prayer .- } ' Upon tJbis topic , we own , we agree substantially with the late Dr . Price ,
extracts from whose Dissertations ^ &c . are given in this Illustration . There are , no doubt , instances in the Old Testament of forgiveness upon intercession : yet , as far as we recollect , all the offers and promises of heavenly mercy to the penitent , are made " without reserve . " Dr . M . has not brought
* See " A Plea for Unitarian Disinters , " &c . By Robert Asp land , 97—107 . Rev . t It would be extremely difficult to t > n > ve that intercessory prayer is analo - gous to the popular view of sacrifice , &c
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forward any examples of the contrary : nor is the case of Isaac , in Gen . xxvw 24 , one of pardon . In No . X , "On Unitarians ; or rational Dissenters / ' an
obnoxious class of men are sneered at , after the Dean of Cork ' s man * rier , as an enlightened sect : and he presents to the public the very important information that lie
chuses to style them by the name which they prefer ; though he is perfectly aware , at the same time , of the impropriety of its appropriation . After such a statement , how happens it that he speaks of them so often as Socinians ?
It is not a fact , as this writer would represent [ in Note XI , " On the distinction between Unitarians and Socinians" ] , that Unitarians
divest our Lord of his regal and sacerdotal character : they gratefully welcome and preach him under both . Nor is this the point of distinction between themselves
and the followers of Socinus . Uni . tarians do not worship , like the Polish reformer and his disciples , an exalted man . If by the corruption of man ' s natural state [ the poi nt ostensibly discussed in No . XII . ] Dr . M . means , as his reference to Iceland
on the Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation would denote , the debasement of religion and morals in the heathen world , he adverts to a fact which no
Christian will deny , On the other hand ) if he use this phraseology to enunciate ^ as it were , the popular doctrines of original sin , he touches upon an opinion which , at least , is highly controvertible . These two subjects , jn truth , are far from being identical ; although the Dean of Cork and M \* i W * P berforce seem to confound them
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Review . —Dr . Magee on Atonement . 6 Q 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 695, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/35/
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