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nary mode of practical preaching on Unitarian principles might be useful to shew that Unitarians do wot * ungod the Deity / or ' deny the Lord that bought us / or « count the blood of the covenant a common thing /
although they know nothing of * vicarious sacrifice , ' ' expiatory virtue , ' 4 equivalent satisfaction / or by whatever other unscriptural phrases the idea is attempted to be conveyed , that the Father of Mercies required an innocent victim to * satisfy His
justice / and render Him propitious to penitent sinners /' The Discourses are scriptural , plain and affectionate , and well suited to be put into the hands of serious persons who may be unacquainted with Unitarianism , or prejudiced against Unitarians .
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obtain everlasting * salvation . * He then says he changed his opinion , and , in an address to God , mentions the means of this change . His words are , * Thou , beingwilling- to shew me the doctrine of the incarnation of Christ , proc . ijredst for me ^ by a certain person , some books of the
Platonic philosophers , translated from the Greek into Latin 3 and there I reacl the doctrine ; not , indeed , literally expressed , but , from what I read , I was entirely convinced of it , by many and various reasons . f- Now , had the Gentile churches , in this early period , continued to maintain an intimate and
brotherly connexion with the body of Jewish Christians , it is not conceivable that their Heathen prejudices would ever have led them into all these deplorable errors . " -: —Pp . 14—16 . The Sermon concludes with
suitable and serious reflections upon the inscrutable ways of the Divine Providence , and the inestimable worth of the Holy Scriptures .
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Art . VILI—A Letter to the Rev . Dr . Chalmers , occasioned by his Notice of Unitarians , in the Appendix to his Sermon on the Death of the Princess Charlotte ; to which is sub '
joined , a Statement of the Evidence for Sir Isaac Newton $ Unitarianism . By Benjamin Mardon , Minister of the Unitarian Church , Glasgow , 8 vo . Pp , 24 . Glasgow , printed ; sold by Hunter , London . 1818 .
PERSPICUITY is not a trait of Dr , Chalmers ' s eloquence . It has been much questioned , therefore , what he really meant in a passage of the Preface to his celebrated Astronomical Sermons , in which he says , that Sir Isaac Newton embraced the leading doctrine of a " sect or system , which has now nearly dwindled away
* " ' Ego vero aliud putabam , tantumqiie sentiebam de Domino Christo meo , quantum de excellentis sapientiae viro , cui nullus possit sequari : praesertim quia mirabiter natus ex virgine , ad exemplum conternnendorum temporalium pro aclipiscenda immortalitate . Conf . L . vii . C . xix . N . 25 .
-f " ' Et prnno volens ostendere miniquod verbum tuum caro factum est , et hahitavit inter homines , procurasti mihi per quendam hominem immauissimo typho turgidum , quosdam Platonicorum libros
ex Oroeca lingua in Latinam versos : et ibi legfi , non quidem his verbis , sed hoc idem omnino mull is et multiplicihus suaderi iationibus , quod in principio erat verbum , * &c . Ibid . C . ix . N . 13 .
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644 Review *—Broadbent ' s Sermon . —Mardon ' s Letter to Chalmers *
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Art . VII . —The Progress of Gentile Error , hi the Christian Church , the Consequence of the Separation of the Gentile from the Jewish Believers , in the First Ages : a Sermon , preached before the Dissenting Ministers of the Presbyterian Denomination , in
Lancashire and Cheshire , at their Annual Meeting at JBolton , June 24 , 1818 ; and now published at the Request of the Ministers and others , who heard it . By William Broadbent , Minister of the Unitarian Chapel , Warrington . 8 vo . Pp . 22 . Warrington , printed ; sold by Hunter , London .
THE subject of this Sermon is fully expressed in the title . There is novelty in it as a topic of pulpit discourse ; and no one can read the Sermon without perceiving its importance . Mr . Broadbent ably shews its forcible bearing upon the Unitarian controversy .
He traces the doctrine of the Trinity to the three principles ia the Platonic philosophy , and appeals to the following striking example in proof of the hypothesis : — u Austin , bishop of Hippo , one of the most considerable of the Latin fathers ,
speaks thus of himself in his Confessions : ' Fora great while my opinion of my Lord Christ was , that he was a most wise and excellent man , miraculously born of a virgin , and sent by God , with a high commission , to give us an example of steadfast virtue amidst the temptations of this world , and to instruct us in the way how we mifrht
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 644, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/44/
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