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He observes , 1 . We find in Scripture marty express declarations , proceeding from the lips of our Lord himself , that the knowledgfe wliteh he possessed was
not has own , but derived from him that sent him . 2 . Prajrer is an act which it is impossible to suppose could be performed ^ by a being , himself omniscient—himself < xod « 3 * Our Lord
was tempted m all points as we are . Does not temptation necessarily imply the limited knowledge of the person tempted ? 4 . All those passages of Scripture which imply the limitation of any other of the attributes of Jesus , will also imply that of his knowledge . The Introduction to the Sermon
contains some excellent and happ il yexpressed remarks upon the accusation brought against Unitarians of a wish to degrade our Saviour .
An Appendix , of many pages , eon « - sists of Notes , argumentative and critical , which are unusually valuable . One of these contains animadversions
on Dr . Pye Smith ' s scheirie vof Calvinism . We regret that we can extract only the following sub-note , on the popular topic of Unitarian presumption :
" The charge of indulging the vain and presumptuous idea of fathoming the unsearchable mysteries of the Divine Nature , has not unfrequently been preferred against Unitarians ; upon What principle I know not , unless it be that principle of policy which sometimes prompts a disputant to endeavour , i f possible , to astonish
and confound his antagonist , by preferring against him the very accusation , which he had fully expected to be preferred against himself . Surely if presumption must be ascribed to either party , —though I am not aware of the necessity , and should therefore greatly prefer the milder term error , —it should rather be to those who
pretend to define what the Divine Nature i s or at least to point out the distinctions that are in it , than to those who withhold their assent from any sucfr unauthorized definitions or descriptions ; - ~ + mih&r to those who , wkhdut the direct sanction either of reason or revelationaffirm the
, Deity to be both three ^ nd one , ttein to those who , ccniftning themselves atrictiy to the language of Scripture * iand the express declarati ^ t > f iGc » dbMin ^ f , \« are only to affirm that he is dne slather to those
who eiait an , toiferende o # Ihfir own , ceminly neither hrtultitfely ) obvious nor neceash , ^ Mm ta * 4 MtortHttJBiY } fe truth , than to thwe wh « i think noJhtttoan inference , eveii if it were apparently just ,
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entitled to equal . weight with the inspired decisions of Scripture ; r—rather to , those who pronounce dogmatically that mere humajn formulas of faith and doctrine Jiave * the express warrant of Holy Scripture / thahto
j tfeosejwho hesitate to adipait as scaiptural , doctrines wtiich are ) &i ) i taught , and cannot be expressed faMiitip tural terms ; - ^ ratherto tnosetrtio Ab : ii 0 t scruple , in the public congregation , in the Solemn presence of Almighty Obd t antl as a part of his holy ser ^ ice ^ to express tfteit
unqualified and implicit belief in such matters of doubtful disputation , to say the very least , as are contained in tl $ & Nicene and Athaaasian Creeds , than to those who require much higher authority than that of fallible men , or fallible
councils , to induce them to entertain , or to warrant them in publicly and solemnly professing such belief- ' Wnatever may bt said of "« Unitarian presumption' in this respect , the charge most a&suredly comes With aii ill grace from persons who profess to know so much more of the Dhdne
Nature and Essence than Unitarians do , •—who draw conclusions respecting it from passages in whitfh it is not even mentioned , —and who dignify those conclusions , though mere deductions of their own , and never once directly indicated by
Scripture , with the name of sacred and essential truths . Let any one carefully and seriously peruse the Athanasian , the Nicene , Dr . Pye Smith's , or any other Trinitarian Creed , —let him consider their doubtful and difficult matter , for such it is at the best , and mark their uncouth
and unscnptural phraseology , —and then let him say , whether the guilt of presumption , if it must attach any where , ( which , however , when I consider the endless wanderings of hunian error , I do not think it necessary to believe , ) ougjit not tatlier to be imputed t 6 th& man who , Without any m 6 dest doubt or prudem reservation , professes , than to him
who feels himself compelled , by the testimony both of reason and of scriptur *? , to withhold his credence . " " - —Pp . 68 , 6 & ,
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Art . I ft- —• -Poems . By ,, Oue of die AvtfUors o £ " Poems ior Youth , by a , Family Circle . ** Baldwin , Cr » - dock aad JToy- l # 20 . 3 * . W .,
E hare read this littte , mipre-Wtetulkig volume , with a phmvak far exceeding that wiiici * ive Wte baiti UBfcd ' to ® &nm from the perwfel of many A wiote tmiky toiftfe ; iu ^ U ^ cW into the' world by mmry a ybiiiptM mdvef timxnmu Good ^ eiifcM « nife > * m iiqt always mdte gOb < i ^ oe ^ , M& w ± do y ^? ptot $ mfy * W ifflkire
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Review *—Poems * by one of " A Family Circle ?* AJ'J
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vol . xv . "V . - 3 q
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1820, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2491/page/33/
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