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    a moral death , or riearly an utter extinction of virtue among mankind was the consequence . These explanations are exceedingly fanciful , and , we think , cannot be reconciled with the rules of

    just criticism ; but the practical remarks interspersed among them are of great value . In her remarks on chap . i . Mrs . H . makes the following admission : xi It is , I believe , from the Gospel and Epistles of St . John , that the word Trinity

    has been considered to derive support . But here , he , who bare record of tbe word of God , expressly speaks of the revelation of Jesus Christ , which God gave unto him to shew his servants things which must

    shortly come to pass . How different this from the language ^ of the Atbanasian Creed , which , in its attempt . to explain the mysterious union of the Divine Nature , utters what is at the same time revolting to piety and to common sense !"

    Yet she was a believer in the personal deity of Christ , though but low in the scale of orthodoxy . On verses 4—8 , she says :

    u The testimony here given to the divinity of our Saviour , is very striking * . He is placed far above all orders of created beings , the only description that is to our present capacities comprehensible . But while bis relation to God is enveloped in mystery , bis relation to us is set forth in terms lhat excite the most lively gratitude . "

    Surely Mrs . H . had not noticed , what appears evident even from the common version , but still more so from Griesbach ' s edition , that the 8 th verse contains the words , not of Jesus , but of the Lord God , the Father of Jesus . T . C . H .

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    Art * III . —A Sermon on the Advances in Knowledge , Freedom and Morals , from the Reformation to the present 'Times . Preached to Young People , at the Meeting-House in Monhwell Street , 'Jan . 4 , 1818 . By James Lindsay , I ) . D . 8 vo . pp . 44 .

    THE told spirit in which thi * sermon was conceived , and the warm-heartedness which pervades every sentence , recommend it to » 11 the friends of civil and religious

    liberty , or * which is the same thing , to all that take a lively interest in tbe welfare and improvement of the human race * To the youtog , before whom it was preached , it is peculiarly adapted c it cannot ftul of enlarging their views

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    of Divine Providence , and of guarding them against that selfishness , which displays itself iri a disregard of the commonwealth , and which is too often cherished , especially in the upper classes of society , under the mask of prudence .

    Dr . Lindsay is well known a& the enlightened and zealous advocate of universal fitjerty , including of course liberty of conscience to believers and misbelievers . This right of conscience , he says , is already complete in North America : he adds , in a note ,

    u perfection alluded to consists in this ;—that every Christian , without regard to his particular opinions , enjoys an equal share of civil protection and civil privilege ; and though in most of the States there is a general provision for the support of religious worship , the civil power has

    no controul over its appropriation , so as to render it a source of patronage Hence no undue weight is thrown into the scale of any religious party in the state . Thus truth has all the advantage that it ought to wish , or can justly demand , —an open field and a fair combat . It was thus that

    it gained its triumphs in the first and best days of Christianity ; and happy will it he for its credit and influence , when it is left once more to the support of its own evidence and excellence , under the voluntary guardianship of those by whom that evidence and excellence will be appreciated .

    and without that unnatural dependence upon state patronage , which seems to be a tacit admission , that it cannot stand in its own native streng-th . The author has lon # been of opinion , that its standing would be more firm , and its influence more salutary ; and the more he reflects upon what has been passing in his own time , the mure is this RAnvictinn riveter ! in his ' mind . Riifc

    it is not connected with the desire of any rapid , * much less of any violent change . For all violence is abhorrent from the nature of Christianity ; and its friends may trust securely , for its purgation from all

    debasing mixtures , to the gradual diffusion of knowledge , operating progressively Upon that public opinion , which must beccime , at no distant period , the great legislator among civilized nations . *'—Pp . 25 , 26 .

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    6 && Review *~~ Fox * $ Sermon before the Unitarian Soeietyf £ c .

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    Art . IIL < - * - » 7 % * Voice of Revelation ; A Sermon preached before the Unitarian , Smiety * at Essex Street Chapel , on Thursday , April lh , IB 18 5 also hefore the Eastern Uki ~ tartan Society at Palgrave + onThurs * dmfi July % \ $ l % .. By W * J * Fox , I 2 mo- pp . 48 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 522, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/50/