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4 ^ flS ^ ' ^?^^\ JP "W * the Arcnaeacon never could nave seen , as they were not published tiJI the ' year 180 & Mr . Cappe sayii , " Whatever is essential to Christianity , all the sects of Christians , without pae excepted instance , own . 'it is
essential to Christianity ( Jive Geiitile Christianity , which consists in receiving Jesus as the Life ) , to believe that he died and rose again ; and was empowered to send from heaven the gifts of tlie Holy Spirit , arid nothing else is is
essential / ' j ^ ow whit this but ^ o assert what Mr . Paley has ^ stated " as € the scope of' Christianity as a r&velation , " to influence the pbnduet of human life , by establishing the proof of a future state of reward aria"
puhisnineqt , to supply motives and , hot ttftes , sanctions and not precepts ; qt , ^ s Mr . Capp e expresses himself respecting the great object ^ of the Christian revelation , of ii $ t he , calis ; jt » . ' c ^ tj ^ e
gospel of life , " * V tp ieyeal ttie good uews , the tidings , the iJiscpVery from fact , of a fnt ^ rp life . ^; ; . The Arcijld € ; acpii goes on to say , that < # itiora . lit yneither " in the gospel nor in any other bic ^ k can be a subject
of discovery ^ prp ^ erl ^ so called . " A proposition which surely harmonizes perfectly with wliat Mr . Cap ^ pe has said in hisi Christian Principles , ^ already referred to r ( 4 ^ 0 , 421 , ) and which he thus sums up , ** All the doctrines properly so called , the truth of which is supposed or admitted , or incidentally
taught in Christianity , are dpctrihes of natural religion , and should stand entirely upon that ground . They are afl supposed to be known or knowable before the promulgatidn of Christianity . All that it reveals is fact " So far then , as it seems , the ideas of the Archdeacon and of my late 1
honoured husbaddappear to coincide . But there is another important object of the divine mission qjf our Lord , as it respected the people of the * Jews , namely , that of his declaring himself to be their Messiati , ancf of sbietnnly forewarning them of I the fatal consequences of { { heir rejectin g him in that character , to WhiSli tiie doctrihe of forewarning them oC the fatal constquences of heir rejectin g him in that characterto WhidH tiie doctrihe of
, " salvation by fiMtli / properly belonged for we kaow assuredly tWat tliose , and those orily ^ were adt uatly preserved in the dreadful destruction whicn ere th £ knd of that generation , overwhelmed their country , who , by
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selves unrf ^ r his banner . To thi « the Archdf&coi ? has not adverted , otherwise r ^ lSfe fte niU ^ t fiaVe adib ittSl something like tlie view given in the Critical Dissertations , of which the
Christian t ^ riiiiijrtes form a part , of the twofold ^ cn&racter of Christy Ms the promised Messiah , to the descendants of Abraham , and of " the fifei * in respect of all mankind at large .
But be that as it may , for I am not solicitous , Mr . Editor , to shelter the Dissertations " ^ nder the prote ^ tioii ^ pf atiy nal ^ e , jhow ^ v ^ r Kfehi y and desfe * - y ^ y r ^ v ^ r ^ dV Ijfein hl llV p ^ rsu ac ^ d th
^ tha |^ evehtudllj ^ ^ general vie v ^ they exhibit df the Christian dispensation , will stand upon the only imnioveabie foundation , that of reality and truth .
: Jfhat this publication should " hitherto' in general' Wave been sb coolly Received , and that man y of the stf iking solutions it cbhtains of some of " the difficulties under which Unitarians confessedly labour in attempting a Consistent Support of their priricipjles , should seldom oi never have been
even adverted to by them , woiild ^ irifleecl , surprise me , were I not fully aWaire of the gre&t disadvantages under which an un patronised
posthumous publication must always labour , and more Specially , where , as in this instance , the person destined to be the Editor , must necessarily be incompetent to its defence , or to the procuring for it a favourable reception . Perhaps
the question is not yet wholly out of date , even among the most liberal and enlightened , Have any of the rulers and Pharisees believed on him '? 11 But ftow much soever I may have regretted that my Unitarian friends , when engaged in an important controversy with their vehement opposers , should not have availed themselves of
the far more decisive weapons of argument in their favour to be derived frbni the view of the Christian dis p&nsation in these Dijj $ ertations , than any they have actually used ; arguments which , however clear or striking , it
is probable they may never have seep or considered , X' console niys ^ lf , Sir , under the Arm belief , that the progress of knowledge , aloig wifli every othfer goocl , is linde ^ r the best possible * 'd ire <; tibn , a 4 d thit although it is our bounden duty to aid it © advancement fey evfery means in' our poiircn yet
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/25/
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