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fl je preacfteT h * s > we conceive , y $ i ; y ^ diciftu ^ y Jntrqduced £ tp d jtmply refuted Mr * ¦ Wfflwte celetjr ^ d argument of Polytbemn having been actually the first religion of mankind :
" By , tfc , us fixing the period when Polytheism began to give way to a rational faith and worship , lie has taken the credit from philosophy , and assigned it to Christianitv . " —Pp -24 , 25 .
We think too # that a presumption maybe derived in favour of the primitive revelation , by comparing Mr . Hume ' s reasoning from his assumed premises , with the clear traces in profane history of the worship of one God , prior to many of the systems of Heathen idolatry .
We cannot avoid quoting the following passage , because we imagine it wa $ intended to be submitted to Unitarians :- — " Is there , in this assembly , any one who presumes to offer his worship to God Under any other view of his character than
thaj which is presented in the gospel ; or , in ajny other ^ ay than that which the I ^ Qspel prescribes ? Let such recollect , that there is tat one God ; that this one Cod has one immutable character ; that this character is essential to his very being ; thai the God of the Bible is this one God i and that if he is not worshiped
as he is there made known , it is not God tba , t is worshiped , hut an idol , —a creature of our own imagination . We may , in our minds , divest God of some of his essential perfections ; and then we may fall down and worship him in our own way . But this is idolatry both in the spirit aad
in the letter . The appeals at the conclusion to the votaries of ambition , of worldly affection , of science , and to those who have erroneous views of the character
of God , contain many impressive and pious sentiments . We should have subjoined a prevalent species of Christian idolatry * But this , although fairly chargeable upon the Liturgy of the Church of England , when it pflfers up to Christ , as the object of prayer , the folio whig religious address—*• Wham thou hast redeemed with thy most
precious blood : by the mystery of thy holy incarnation , by thy holy nativity and circumcision , by thy baptism , fasting and temptation , by thy agony and bloody s ^ eat , by thy cross and passion , by thy precious cteatlk and burial , *—we do not lay to the account of Mr . Wardlaw . His
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religion is , indeed , partly Trinitarian and partly . Oalvjnistic ; but its original grossness is much attenuated $ > y ™>
Wardlaw ' s cultivated un < te * statf <^ ng His rejection of that necessaty pafjt of orthodoxy , the eternal Soustitp , pf Christ , is known to the world by his own allusion in his Discourses on the
Principal Points , &c . His ideas of the Atonement are by no means those of the first Calvinistic Reformers . [ XII . 414 . ] We may , perhaps , truly say , that his system departs as much from original Calvinisip as it still .
differs from Unitarianisip . We rejoice sincerely in this prpgr ^ . We cordially wish this gentleman further success in his biblical studies ; riot
despairing that , at the cloge of life , fee may emulate the example , and Sife ? . ri 5 the heretical reputation bfih ^ i ^ pfp ^ Whitby , the pious Watts , and £ he ingenious and laborious Robinson . It will , then , be unnecessary for . him tp substantiate the title of his second
book , in the Glasgow Controversy , by an exposure of the learning and a refutation of the acuteness of Mr . Yates ' s Sequel .
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Review .-riTurner ' s Twopi ^^ 6 $
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. . f * — Art . VI—Two Discourses * I . On the Fitness and Propriety of the Gospel Dispensation being , introduced through the Medium of the Man Christ Jesiis . 2 . On the Foundation , Nature and Proper Expressions of Love to the JLord Jesus Christ . Preached at the Sixth
Annual Meeting of the Association of Scottish Unitarian Christians ^ Glasgow , April $ 6 1818 . By William Turner . l £ mo . Pp . 40 . Longman and Co . IN the forme * of these Discourses foil Heb * ii , ly ) , Mr . Turner
points put " niany excellent purposes and em inent advantages , for the benefit of itisrtikind , which are consequent ypon the humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ . }* ' and in the latter ( ou Ejphes . vi . 24 ) , shews , /* 1 , That the Lord Jesus Christ is the proper
object of our highest esteem atjd most ^ rdent affection ; and , 2 , What it is to love him in sincerity , and in > vhat manner we ought to testify that love . " "this Sermon is printed with ^ he qther " a , t the requebt of some xespecte ^ frieads at Edinburgh , who thought that a specimen of the Ordi *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/43/
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