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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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this , as best accommodated to me , in my own opinion ; but I know not how it is , that what one eagerly , yet
vainly pursues , is bestowed on another who disregards or despises it . I congratulate the Christian world on the appearance , under your inspection , of the hitherto unpublished works of that great man fArrninius ] *
As to the English book , translated into French , which you were reading when you wrote to me , I think with you , that the author , by placing the Christian verity on a right foundation , as it appears to me , has eradicated
contentions and schisms , as far as possible . When you liave read the wjipie I shall wish to know how you and others approve that tract . I hear that it displeases our divines , both Conformists and Nonconformists . * The
* Thus , Watts , in the ardour of youth and the plenitude of orthodoxy , charged Mr- Locke with haying * u darkened the glory of the gospel , and debased Christianity , in the book which he calls the
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Hdr . Turner on tjie Orthodox Representations of the Deity : written , but not printed , as an Appendix to Two Discourses , preached at GlasffQWp and since published . *
Newcastle , Sept . 20 , 1818 . ON being honoured with an invitation to attend the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association of Scottish Unitarian Christians , it occurred to me , in reflecting o \\ the choice of a subject on which to address them ,
that as it was to be held this year in Glasgow , the seat of an University of known celebrity , to which I had , by myself and others , so many and so great obligations—the seat also of societies of professing Christians ,
adopting asinost every variety of sentiments and forms of worship , a number of strangers might be drawn together by the comparative novelty of a Scottish Unitarian Association : it miglit , therefore , he not improper or inexpe-* See our Review department * a the present Number ,
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rest approve or disapprove , relying as it may chance , on their own or another ' s opinion . I agree with you as to the passage in John . There is in our translation the same error which you have observed in the French .. But the Greek
text 9 which I think you rightly interpret , is much more apposite . Farewell , most worthy friend , and regard me as , Yours affectionately , J . LOCKE .
Reasonableness of it . " Watts , however , lived to discover u that the way of holiness in tfie times of the gosp-el , or under the kingdom of the Messiah / ' must be a " plain and easy path , " and that the " difficult and abstruse" doctrine of " three
real persons going * to make up one true God , " is a " strange and peiplexing- notion ; " though , in the days of his younger assurance , he had even entertained the monstrous , pagan idea of a bleeding God . See Note on Locke" * s Annotations in Watts ' s Lyric Poems and his u Solemn Address . ' Works , 8 vo . VII . 261 , 262 , 477 .
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dient , instead of a discourse professedly controversial , to exhibit to them a specimen of the more general and ordinary method of preaching upon Unitarian principles , by making them the ground-work for enforcing one or
more plain and practical exhortations , and thus convincing those who might need to be convinced , that these principles are not unfitted to promote the faith and holiness and religious joy of those who hold them : that our
doctrines are not such as they are often represented in popular sermons and essays , and in speeches to popular assemblies , " a meagre , lifeless skeleton , devoid of every vital or vitalizing principle ; " that we do not 4 i ungod
the Deity , " or " deny the Lord that bought us , ' or " count the blood of the covenant a common thing s " although we know nothing of "
vicarious sacrifice / ' " expiatory virtue , " equivalent satisfaction , * ' or by whatever other u riser iptural phrases the idea is attempted to be conveyed , that the Father of mercies required the death of an innocent victijm * 9
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612 Mr . Turner on the Representations of the Deity ,
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 612, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/12/
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