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_ and we know that he was the advocate of the pre-existenee and media tonal worship of Jesus Christ . Lardner makes a marked distinction between the Arian and the Unitarian doctrine . * Nor can we easily forget what he says of Watts , " I think Dr .
Watts never was an Anan , to his honour be it spoken—he was an Unitarian—Dr . Watts ' s last thoughts WERE COMPLETELY UNITARIAN . " f If on a subject of this nature authority might weigh , that of Lardner would be decisive : his correctness as an historian
and an observer , and his skill as an interpreter of Scripture are beyond our praise . So Baron % discriminates Hopton Haynes as an Unitarian . Dr . Priestley , it is well known , did
not regard his fellow-christians of the Arian school as justly entitled to be classed among Unitarians : the reason was that he looked on Arianism , in all its modifications , as infringing , or immediately tending to infringe , the doc * trine of the absolute unitv of God . Of
the same opinion is a living author , ( long may it be ere we can without censure speak of him as Respect and Gratitude would impel us !) who must rank among the most intelligent , powerful and assiduous labourers in the field of Christian truth , and on this principle were formed those Unitarian Booh
Societies in Great Britain which are confessedly first in the order of time , nor , perhaps , of the least account in respect of the patronage they have obtained , and of the benefits they have diffused .
Why have we enumerated these facts ? Chiefly for the sake of justifying and explaining the passage we nave last cited from Mr . Hunter ' s Sermon ; but also for the purpose of shewing that the sense wte affix to the word
Unitarian is not arbitrary and unsupported , and that the tenet of our Lord's exclusive humanity , in contradistinction to hie supposed pre-existence , is not the mere private , but the long avowed and publicly recorded belief of the advocates oif Christian
Unitarimtsm . Th&t these terms cannot in justice be disjoined , we thank Mr » * Works , X . 619 , and Mon . Repos . VHl 715 , &c . t Theirt . Repos . IV . 338 . I S . A . &c . ( 2 d ed . ) atari -
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Hunter for proving so clearly and sa ~ tisfkctorily . Although traces of rapid Composition are visible mhisdiseoiirse , yet he is accurate in thought and sound in reasoning . ? ¦ ¦ # N .
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Review . —An Inquirers Letters to Fox . J 09
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Art . III . —Four Letters to the Rev W . J . Fow occasioned by his ± Sermon on the Duties of Christians towards Deists ; and by his Remark on the Prosecution of Mr . Carlile . By an Inquirer . 8 vo . pp . 54 . Hunter . 1819 .
fTHHERE is something raSntelfigjible JL in this publication . The writer does not address Mr . Fox merely as the author of the Sermon tefejrred to in the title-page , but sit the 3 &me time does not explain his other allusions .
He is evidently capable of writing well , and yet he sometimes expressed himself very obscurely . He is often rational , and often both theoretically and practically unreasonable . In one place he uses the language of a friend of liberty , in another that of an advocate for
whatever is . There is a spirit of candour in many pages , of prejudice , as far as relates to Unitarians , in some few . The theology of the writer is a sort of compound of the Chiirch-6 f
England and the Quaker faith . And with regard to Mr . Fox , the feelings of the anonymous addresser &re various ; from admiration , real or affected , to suspicion .
The Letters are €€ On Djflfereticfc of Opinion among Christians ; On Heligious Persecution : On Freedom of Inquiry ; On the Grounds of Admission into the Christian Chtarcbu" None of these topics are closely argued , but there are shrewd remarks on each of them . *•
We subscribe to the observation of the Letter-writer , ( p . 9 , ) *• that ^ it is far better to mistake the Christian doctrine than the Christian spirit , ** * This gentleman ' s Hatlamshire , or " History and Topdgt-aphy of the Parish of Sheffield , " deserves , if we mistake not , to be placed by the side of the best works
in that department of literatutfc . In the title-page of it he styled , hhnself " Honorary Member of the wodlety > 6 f Antiquaries of Newcastle ^ t ^ n ^ Tfnet * this addition he , with his characteristic good sense , omits in the title of a publication altogether theological .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/45/
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