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( WliHepheated ^ aiHtie SoDft ^ af God for . jay pronouncing all war goody tb' Almighty Sire . . , _ His awful qoasecratiog nod § ball give Of final ^ Lpprob ^ tion i and his Sons ,
The sacred JHierarchies of Heav ' n , shall sing Xrimnpiiarit Halleliyuhs ! Man shall join ; The Consummation of His mighty works , Triumphant sing , when ' perfected the plan Of so ^ ereigti L *> ve—nnd God is Afa in All , : Webb ' Poems , p . 33 .
Should this very imperfect sketch of the li £ e , character and writings <* f the late Francis Webb * Esq . be in the least degree interesting to your readers , and induce any of theru , qualified for the undertaking , to favour the public
with a more particular and correct account of this ingenious aud excellent man , the design of this communication will be fully answered . I am , Mr . Editor , Yours most respectfully , THOMAS HOWE .
N-. B ., Mr . Webb has left a widow behind him of a very advanced age , still residing at Barrington in Somersetshire .
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A Letter qf \ Dr . JVaits % hitherto unpublished , on the Deity of Christ . Communicated by the llev . J . Kentish . Birmingham , March hOi , 1816 . Sir , THE autograph of the subjoined letter , is in the possession of a lineal descendant of the gentleman * whom it was addressed : and I ain
permitted by its respectable owner to transcribe it for your pages . It ' s contents suggest many a reflection : I submitit however , without a comment , to
the attentipn of your readers . In the copy the orthography varies froin that of the original , which otherwise is exactly followed . Yours , Sec . JOHN KENTTSH . Copy qf a Letter from Dr . Wa ^ ti to - tke ^ -JRev . Mr . Alexander * Hev . Sir , * wftjrii you thanks for your Essay on I re naeua wherein you haye eflectu-———¦— V _^____ .
* llie Re % John Ale ^ nderyctfStratford Upon Avon , afterwards ot IrHahd / and lather WflfeRev . r' -Jfchii ' Aleifcader , trf Birtaingltwfc . s A shaft itotice df the ^ Merffir . A . * Ul-be foutadln ^ hcr Btograpliia Btttaimica . ( edited by Dr . Kippis ) , in a cantuuui ^ ica «» h ^ fo # at ^ fe ^ e e ^ d ^ r thef ^ rticfe Benson j wher ^ uiiro U * m& ** c £ ovmt < yf thvt 6 Ti \
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ally-pro ^ & 4 ; t ^ atXreiiaei ^ believed the proper JDeity of Christ . A& -j freqiaentW-mak ^ deefP ^ ks i& peruatrig the books I read , I have taken the freedom to do ttee satne -tMng' w ith ^ e ^ ard ^ to this book : but having lcfffe ^ bcfttfyour
book and thtsfep&p&s m ^ tibeccjrferitry , I cannot po ^ ib 1 y > erfd thtein Kf ^> or friend . If you come to ^ ij ^^ i ^ tKis year , I should be Veiy' gt&T't ? ' talk them over with you , and enter into some further disquisitions on the same
subject- . ' : . ik v - -With regard to Irenseus , - the onl y thing I shallrnentioti at present ; is that you nave made it evident , beyond all contradiction , that Irenaeus supposed the l > ogos , or divine nature of Christ , to be the very v& $ crv minct * of the
Father , and in that sense td be the Father hitotseff , as in tfne pla ^ e you yourself express it : and this 4 s itjanifestly the sense of Trends in thaily places . There are also other' passages in Irenseus w herein the Logos is i ^ pFrcsented as the Son , of God , and-as a
distinct person , or distinct corisciOus mind or spirit . Now 1 beg leave to inquire , fst , Why the last of these senses * t . « % ** the Son of God , may not be interpreted into a figurative personality , and so be reduced to the first , as well ad
the first of these senses , v-j s * . the vs $ y be raised up to a real , proper , distinct personality , and so reduced to the last ? Whether there is Dot as much reason for the one interpretation as for the other ? I cannot but think
that it is much more intelligible to represent the vSf or mind of God Tn a personal manner ( which is very aj * fe 0-able to the Scriptural idiom ) than to make a real , proper , distinct person become the vS $ of the Father , or the Father himself , as . Irenaeus speaks , 2 . If Irenaeus cannot be reconciled
to himself this way , whether the proposal of , reconciliation which ITiiave offered , Dissertation 4 . Sect . 7 ? does not bid as fair for it ks arty thing else ? Or , in ' the third place , whether there is any need of reconciling Irenaetis to hirn ^ elf ? For he is Wibak
entMigh to speak inconsistencies eoYnttirties , or at least' to ^ peak words without * ahy ideas . Now—thtr- ^ ame thing 1 which you have |> rovfed , and F " grant , concerning Jren ^ ils ^ may be' frianifested co ncern ,-fn ^' Several ! 6 t ]\ er of the primitive ^ fathers ; if any man would search uuo
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Copy hf a Miter freni ^ Br . Wati *~ t * the R ev . Mr . Alexander ' , 1 § 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/5/
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