On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
REVIEW.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
( 412 )
Untitled Article
" Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . " - —Po ' pfe .
- ^ ww ^^ Art . I . Unitarian Controversy in Scotland . [ Concluded from p . 269 . } Discourses on the Principal Points of the Socinian Controversy . By Ralph Wardlaw * A Vindication of Unitarianism , in Reply to Mt \ Wardlaw * s Discourses on the Socinian Controversy * By James Yates . M . A .
Unitarianism Incapable of Vindication : A . Reply to the Rev . James Yates ' s Vindication of TJnitarianism . By Ralph Wardlaw . A Sequel to A Vindication of Unitarianism , in Reply to Mr . Wardlaw ' s Treatise , entitled , Unitarianism Incapable of Vindication . By the Author of the Vindication .
* . l ^ TNITARIANS revere the Scrip-\_ J tures ; but they do wot hold the English translation sacred : Unitarians revere the Scriptures ; but they knowthat every syllable of the received text is not an exact transcript of the original record - > they are therefore anxious to distinguish what is genuine from
what is spurious , and in this investigation they prove their willingness to follow the best guides , and to adhere rigidly to those rules by which all agree , that questions of this sort ought to be decided . Unitarians revere the
Scriptures j but they prefer those interpretations of doubtful and difficult passages , which agree with natural , and harmonize with the clear and uniform ten our of revealed , religion , to those which contradict both . Unitarians revere the Scriptures ; but they Wish to shew their reverence by deducing their religious opinions entirely from a pure text , aided by liberal and eYilightefried criticism : not by assuming- an
hypothesis , land endeavouring to establish it on the corruptions which the lapse of time has introduced into the S&cred Records , and the obscurities . whkih have arisen from ancient manners , usages and phrases . Yet Mr . Wardlaw uniformly speaks as though
Review.
REVIEW .
Untitled Article
it Wefe ah ^ disputa ble and undisputed truth , that Unitarian * nevfcr respect the Scripture * , tout when the Scriptures sdem to faVOuY thefr preconceived opinions : that they niakfe reason their Odd , and ScHptare its
throne ; that whenever any difficult passage comes in their way , they observe no sort of ceremony ; they vh&fee the shortest work imaginable of it : without reason or pretence of reason they say— " Oh , the text is certainty wrong here : this will not comport
with the system ; this must be an interpolation ! " and then by the aid of Griesbach , the Improved Version and the most " latitudmarian and Vicen ^ tious principles , " the grand peculiarities of the gospel , all that gives it vitality and soul , are made to
disappear . Then an alarm is sounded against " the pride of philosophy , misnamed theology , whose only object is to pervert the Scriptures from tftleir obvious arid simple meaning" ( Pref . to Unit , I neap , of Vind . )» against the wickedness which endeavours " to
make the common people jealous and distrustful of that translation Of the Bible in which they have been accustomed to confide : " ( ibid . ) against a most dangerous and faithless set of personages called " Unitarian geographers , " who " endeavour by . the'discovery of false readings , false
renderings , and false interpretations , to fay dofavn a map of the way to heaven , entirely different frotn the one which is there so distinctly delineated . " ( Pref ., &c . ) Next when a syllable must not be breathed against the authorities to which Unitarians appeal , bursts forth «• indignant disdain of
that provoking yet pitiful disingenuousness , which is fbr ~ ever , in the case of the uninformed , vaunting of the authority of Griesbach ; , making its incessant appeal , in terms of unqualified £ ene > ality , and in tones of
tri-\ im |) h ; trit confidence , to the text of Griesbach , ^ -&s if no one cotlld reason ably pretend to know any thing of apostolic docfritie , unless he were familiar t * ith < 3 rfe 6 bach ; — as 4 f the whole texture of the New Testament ,
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/36/
-