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it be that by which a man chooses to call himself ; and yet it is necessary in the actual state of things , that we should introduce our friend , to pur company by some designation by wbicfc he may be known from the rest , q , pA by which other persons may address him . Perhaps I may be pardoned if I usher them into the society of your
readers , by the name which he& been applied to them by my very popular and respectable neighbour , £ > r . "Hawker—Holy-Ghost-Deniers . They certainly are not TTrinitariaps , nor are they Unitarians ; they are steering a course in the exact midway , between
these rival sects ^ that for so . many centjuries have divided the Christian world between them . . There is a prospect , however * of the former party which is so much the la ^ g ^ r ' j , suffering a ^ decrease * in order to admit Qf the increase of this new division ; while I
confidently believe tha £ , although they may enlist numbers from the Trinitar ian ranks ,, they will not change th # opinions of one who is well grounded in the principles of Unitarian Christianity . The signs of these times < do not seem to be to enlarge the borders of faith , and add to the number of its
articles ; they rather are , as they should be , to throw off the numerous shackles by which the human mind has long been depressed , and bring the Christian creed to its purest aad simplest state , that state in which it was held before philosophers and priests and emperors moulded it to their corrupt , their idolatrous habits .
The sect of which I am now writing is a striking and a satisfactory , proof , that the course of things is that which I have stated , and it wilj . eve * be a p leasure to us to see these our brethren in the profession of the gospel , parting
with at least one error ; while the spirit with which they are acting , and the ardour with which they are converting the evangelical professors form the ground of a strong assurance that they will be useful labourers in the
overgrown vineyard of the church , and that having lopped off oi > e large and luxuriant branch of parasitical growth , they will not long stop here , but will discover many others ,, which the prids and the ignorance of man have led him to engraft on that frue and living vine of which the Father is the husbandman .
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This sect appears to have bad its rise in the Rev . Mr . Baring , ( brother of the great } oan-contnictor , Sir Frauds Baring , ) who resigned a valuable living in the Church , and betook himself to the Dissenters . It is said that one or two other clergymen seceded from the Church with Mr- Baring , and since their secession , other men have sprung up who preach the sentiments held by these gentlemen . The writer of these
lilies had recently an opporttuaity of hearing a frank and eloquent exposure of tfreur principles , from the mouth of a gentleman whose intention was made known by placards which were posted up in , the town of Plymouth . They hold the proper Unity of the Divine Being , and on this subject explain themselves as distinctly as the
moat cautious Unitarians , maintaining that He who was called . the Father is the on § onl y tru $ God . Of the Soa they say it is wrong to call him Gad the Son , because it he is the Son he cannot b $ the Divine Being , whose Son he is ; but he is the Son of God .
The gentleman who preached appeared to maintain the proper humanity of the ^ maa Jesus , that in his body the Divine Peing took flesh , that no intelligent principle inhabited , that body but the Deity who dwelt in him ; for that the Scriptures distinctly declare that he took nothing of humanity but a body aad flesh- —a body hast thou prepared—he took flesh and dwelt
among us—not a human spirit or soul . This is considered b y them as an important part of their system ; for , that if it was not the Divine Being himself who animated the body of Jesus and died upon the cross , he could not have offered an infinite sacrifice for the
sins of the world ; which it is their opinion tljat he did offer by hia death . In this point of view they consider the Saviour as God , who diedfoi ; our sins and rose again for our justification - y and who now intercedes for us in a bodily form at the right hand of God .
They hold , therefore , tfce doctrine of the Pre ^ existence ; but on this point the preacher did not explain whether it was the Spirit of God which inhabited the ? body of Jesus , that pre-existed ,
or whether in any way the body itself of the Saviour had a prior l > eirjg ; but that this person in hia capacity of Christ did i } ve before time , a » d was employed under the Almighty in th #
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162 . New , Sffrof s \ Mfol y * Ghost-Deniers . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/34/
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