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and Sodnian errors . ( Ppi 51 and 82 . ) Nay , Dr . A ; Clarke has in some places stated the doctrine of the use of reason in religion , more broadly than any So * cinian writer , than «' even Dr . Priestly *
or Mr . Belsham > " ( P . 64 . ) In opposition to this pernicious and fatal notion , advanced by the learned Methodist , the more orthodox brother declares , ( p . S 3 , ) that with him " it is of small consideration , whether a doc-1
trine be reasonable or not , * for that * f truth is not to be prejudiced by the reasonings of men ; " that ( p . 60 ) " the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity , " stands upon " no rational evidence of the doctrine itself ; " that ( p . 68 ) " the doctrines of the Trinity in Unity ; of
the union of two natures in one personal Christ ; of the resurrection of the same body ; not only transcend , but contradict human reason ; " nay * ( p . 90 , ) that it is , to his mind at least * U a very strong argument , a priori ,
against any scheme , that it renders a doctrine of pure revelation less difficult to reason . " With singular felicity , he quotes Miss M * Avoyt the Liverpool lass , who has , or had , the incomprehensible faculty of seeing with her fingers , as an illustration of the occasional reasonableness of an
unreasonable faith . ( P . 72 . ) This opponent of Dr . A . Clarke endeavours to fasten odium upon his principle of the use of reason , by shewing that it is acted upon bv " the
modern Socinians , " the universal scarecrows . He says , ( p . 66 , ) in a sentence which has " a most lame and impotent conclusion , " " when a passage in the New Testament stubbornly contradicts
their reason , which they are sufficiently ready to assume is eternal reason , they expeL the chapter or verse from the sacred record ; and often , on very insufficient evidence of its want of genuineness . " This self-mocking passage needs no comment . But Mr . Watson
means that " Socinians" strike out of the Scriptures the words and phrases and sentences which agree not with
# Mr . Richard Watson quotes several times , and always misspells , the name of Priestley , His pamphlet is not badly printed , and we infer that he is a total stranger to Dr . Priestley ' s works , as we dare $ ay he is to those of all other Socinians . * ; His reference to them is not , we believe , even at second hand .
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their system , solely on account of that disagreement . He should have substantiated a charge , which he ought to know that Unitarians tsepel with indignation . At least , he should have forborne to blame a practice which he himself finds conven ient ; We will
explain ourselves . Mr . W . ' s hypothesis is , that the phrase , " Son of God , ' * denotes the Divine nature of Christ , and not the hutmn . But an unluckv text stands in the way * viz . Mark xiii . 39 ,: But of that day and that
hour knowelh no nian , no not the angels which are in heaven , neitherthkSov , but the Father . How is this difficulty obviated ? Simply by remarking , that all the passages in the New Testament , where the term Son of Gdd occurs as
applied to Christ , have been examined , except this solitary text ; and that Dr , Clarke confesses the difficulty of it , and appears disposed to give up the genuineness of the clause , ' * neither the Son . ( P . 47 . ) So , then , truth is satisfied if Dr > Clarke be silenced * and the
appearance of a disposition in that Commentator to abandon a clause , because it is in direct hostility to the doctrine of the deity of Christ , shall suffice for its being treated as spurious , though it is found in every existing manuscript , and every known version . * The "
Socinians , " forsooth , are driving to the * ' Serbonian bog , " ( p . 82 , ) inasmuch as they " expel chapters arid verses , —often , on very insufficient evidence •*' whither , then , are they bending , who connive at the excision of words and
clauses which obstruct their system , not onl y without evidence , but against all evidence whatsoever ? Their critical pilgrimage must terminate in some Dismal Swamp , or Slough of Despond .
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Art W . —Liturgies for Unitarian Worship . Second Edition . 12 mo . Hunter and Eaton . % s . 6 d . 1817 . T 11 HIS is a republication , in a cheap _ JL form , of a work compiled by Mr . Rutt , in 1801 . Me has put oat
a second edition , at the request of a Christian society , who felt the want of such a help . We recommend the Liturgies to such small Unitarian congregations as have no minister to lead their devotions , and approve of a Form of Prayer . 1 See Griesbacli in lac *
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$ 08 Review *— -Liturgies for Unitarian Worship .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/56/
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