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^ o ^ i ^ ttt Jo all *| | fj and « - } Vg pheygt&evLa , they see around them ; ^^ wlraly ^ tinn&ixed with metaphysiia | ^ jf *|> tleties and scholastic contra - dictioqS fc ^ should be anxiously solicitors , irfhumble obedience to the solemn injunctions of their divine
Master , " to let their light so shine before men , " that others seeing their incorruptible integrity , their exemplary piety 9 their courage in refusing to be conformed to this world , its
delusive maxims and its unhallowed , dissipated pursuits , — -their unbounded Christian benevolence , ever ready to join in every good work and labour of love , should thence be more powerfully stimulated ** to glorify their father who is in heaven !"
May we indeed hope to see the happy day when the superior excellence of Unitarian practice shall perfectly harmonize with the superior purity of Unitarian faith ? And that
the Monthly Repository may have the distinguished honour of contributing towards this glorious result , is the ardent wish of a sincere friend , and constant reader , C , C .
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grand trik ' ^^^ ^ Passage of M r * Rimers in the Council of the Trinity . S 3
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Homer represents even Jupiter , upon a great occasion , calling his 6 sv 5 v ayogrjv , his Parliament of the Gods " The author then adds the passage for which I have quoted him : " I have heard Divines observe
something of this kind , as figured of God Almighty from those words , Let us make man . Those words , in the plural number , to them seemed to import , as if God summoned a Parliament of the Trinity , to consult upon that arduous affair . Our Christian Poets have taken the same liberty , aijd fancied this , as an image of greatness , where could be no accession to the Wisdom and Omnipotence . " Mr . Rymer has at least insinuated his doubts of the popular Theology , on a very important point , by this
manner of referring to it . He might , I apprehend , have quoted several Christian Poets , who had thus indulged in theological as well as poetical licence . I conjectured at first , that
Milton was in his thoughts . Yet on refreshing- my recollection , by a reference to Paradise . Lost , 1 find the author , to be no Trinitarian , but what , for distinction , has been denominated a high Avian .
I am not aware that throughout that Poem there is any acknowledgement of what has been called the distinct personality of a Holy Spirit , or any thing beyond a subordinate Deity
attributed to the Son , the fi lial Godhead , who goes forth to the work of creation ( B . vii . ) in paternal glory . On the creation of man the poet , instead of introducing a Trinity , sings how
————th * Omnipotent Eternal Father ( for where is not he Present ?) thus to his Son audibly jiake . Let us now make Man in our own image ,
man In our similitude . It is a later poet , Young , who , somewhere in his prose works , infers the dignity of man from the whole
Trinity having been employed in his creation . Young's theological ideas were indeed so gross , that in the Night Thoughts he . describes the Crucifixion as
Expended Deity , on human weal j and ranks this as principal among ———the great truthsy which bucat the tenfold night Of Heathen error , with a golden flood Of endless day .
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Sir , Oct . 22 , 18 1 . 5 . IT appears suitable to your design ^ ofjconnecting Theology and Literature , „ to notice in works , where they might not have been expected , any hints of a theological complexion . With'this view I offer you the following jiatesages :
Mr . Rymer , Historiographer to King William , who appears to have been well versed in polite literature , but is now chiefly known by his great Collection of the Fcedera , wrote
on " the Antiquity , Power and Decay of Parliaments , " in the form of a Letter , published in . 1714 , a few months after the author ' s decease . Having described an ' artificial mixed sort of
government that always has obtained in Europe , and that which all , in some manner' or other , with more or less success and perfection , have tended to as the centre and only place of rest , " he says , p . 9 ,
44 . first writers among us had their imaginations so overborne with the excellency of kingly govern ijnent , that they fancied in heaven Jupiter to be the King of the Gods . And yet they thought the Common Coup * - 2 no necessary and essential , that
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/19/
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