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avow themselves its friends , should be &jge <^ to more , active eilorts in its be-Half , Tnere is scarcely a village in wriicf } an Enmore school might not be seen ^ if ' persons of property , influence and talents , would but apply them to this object .
Intellectual and religious education , may be intrusted with most Safety arid advantage to the voluntary exertions of individuals ; to their wisdom ,
experience and zeal . This remark forces itself on us , in consequence of our being made acquainted with the Village School Improved : and the correctness of it receives an illustration from numerous facts . What Mr . Poole has
done , other intelligent and public-spirited and able men may also execute . Of the legislator all which we can justly and prudently ask is that he will place no obstacles in the way of " national instruction " : * the productive or creative power by which ' * the dormant seeds of genius and virtue " are vivified , belongs not to hirh !
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fojrthe business of Attribution , when men argue that Christ is God , because what is attributed to God in one place , is attributed unto Christ in another , this , arguing is very fallacious ; for according to that ( though the usual way of proving when men speak of Christ , ) Moses , as a man , will also be God : because what is attributed to
God in one place , la attributed to Moses in another . '^—The argument was taken up and enlarged in an Appendix to " Six more Letters to Granville Sharpe , Esq . on his Remarks
upon the Uses of the Article in the Greek Testament . By Gregory Blunt , JEscj . " an 8 vo . pamphlet of grsat learning and wit , published ; in the year 1803 . The Appendix is
ejititled , " Iable of Jkvidences of the Divinity of Moses , " constructed on the plan of Mr . Sharp ' s " Table of Evidences of Christ ' s Divinity , " "" in order to shew him the validity of this mode of arguing by inference and deduction , from detached passages and figurative expressions . "—JBasanistes has spread out the argument into the volume before us , and ' quite exhausted it . The
reductio ad absurdum , the design of which is to prove an adversary ' s principles false , by / shewing that they necessarify lead to a conclusion , which in itself is confessedly a false proposition , Was tiever more -complete .
Sometimes , indeed , the author pushes his reasoning's to an extreme which startles the reader ; but , whatever may be thought or felt concerning particu * lax passages , the work , considered as a whole , shews that the popular and
most approved reasonings on the subject of the divinity of Christ , and the lYinity , are certainly false , because they prove infinitely Jx * o rajjch « ThU is the answer to the question of Cut Ibno ? which every one asks on taking
up the ; wqrk . The aiiowabieness of . ridicule ob saered subjects is a problem of difficult solution . On the ope $ ide , there is digger qf breaking up , those ; habits of reverepc ^ for i pfiftam names apd things ^^^^ ff ^ f ^ S ^ '' 9 tftytyteP ° r ti ^ oj ^ er ^ there isi a ^ impo&mwty 01 fbiftekripg laughter ^ dcm ^ riglit ab-8 ^ 4 i * nd j » B ! = % l ^ ,- Wll £$ ** a d ^ iiiiap j $£ i ^ t ^^ a ^ i ^ mg i * J " pre j ^ 9 ^ ^ r ^; j »^ - ^ r ^^ JE > W * w i # fi » 4 ^ M ^ JifcJWPP vftihx Jie &appp&&iiHp faifrnkw > his ovm m * m < ) lw « e » tytmndM **
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2 || g , Review . —Jfasanistes * New Way f deciding Old Controversies
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Art . II . —AIPE 2 EX 2 N ANADTA-2 IX : or , A New V ^ ay of deciding Old Controversies . By Basanistes . 3 r < J ed . enlarged . 8 vo . pp . 246 . Johnson and Co . 1815 .
ASANISTES is said to be a B clergyman of the Established Church . His " New Way" is an attempt to explode trie doctrine ' s of the Trinity , and the divinity of Christ , by shewing that the arguments usuall y brought forward on their behalf , may be applied with equal fairness and success to the most absurd and
ridiculous doctrines , such for instance as die divinity of Moses , and , by the addition of him to the godhead , the QyQternity ox persons in the divine naliire . This is not altogether a " New W " ay j" it is more properly AtiOEcrsivv
a + a < rracn $ , the . revival of an old argument , or rather joke . The first suggestion of it was made in the first Vo-Jtjttae' of the Unitarian Tracts , 4 to . printed in the year 1601 , in a paper , entitled " . 9 ome notes taken fromJfrr . Bidle ' s mouth whilst he was \ n . SH e ^^ gajbfej ** /) fne v alrgum ^ At is followed through a page and a half , with the foUa ^ pg p ^ rtm ^ t introduction : " &s
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1816, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2452/page/36/
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