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    creation of the world . Here tv&s a confusion in his statement , add I could not catch the preacliert clear idea , if such he had . The personalit y of the Holy Ghost they altogether deny . On this poirit they hold language precisely the same

    us that which Unitarians employthat by the Holy Ghost is meant in the Scriptures , the power br the wisdom or the influence of the Almighty , which was shed upon the apostles and earfy Christians , to fit them for their great work of planting the gospel ; and they add , that it is still employed to

    convert the sinner and lead him into the way of salvation . It is obvious , therefore , that they offer no divinfe homage to the Spirit , « or ever call on him as a separate being s they maintain that there is not a single passage in the Sacred Volume , in which they are directed or even authorized to offer

    homage to the spirit ; they , therefore , withhold that homage which others pay . Their worship is for the most part paid to the Supreme as God the Father , but sometimes to the Son of

    God , who demands the same homage from man as he pays to the Father . They pray that the Holy Spirit may be shed upon them , as well to bring them into the divine life as to conduct

    them safely through it ; while at the conclusion of thek * prayers they ascribe praise and glory t © Cbrigt with € h £ Father conjointly a-nd equally . On what are called the points , ft tvill be supposed from what has already

    been stated , that tbe ^ are Calvinists of the highest otfder . The fall of nmti in the perfeon of his primogenitor , and all its dreadful consequence td the whole race , forms a grefot feature in their creed , and && completely dege- *

    derate and helpless do thfcy consider us , that they believe rto m # n Cfctt Of himself take a single step in the work of salvation ; that unfg&ft he id visited by the Holy Spirit , afcld by him led to the Savioiir , his cas ^ is hopeless and his end misery ; and thejr hold la all its horrors the doctrine <* £

    eternal torment * Of him that is visited by grace , they believe he « an neve * fall away , aad that he is as incapable < &f doing any thing that will render his salvation void , as he was incapable of wing that which might promote it ^ before his calling and election took

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    place . They profess to believe that at death man goes tin mediately ^ ithet into & State lof Supreme happiness ot of dreadful misery : and th ^ y also believe m a general resurrection of the just and the unjust , and a judgment day iii which the righteous phail be titerallp placed at the right hand of the Judge * and the wiekea at Ms left hanff . 1

    supjjose ^ t&erefore , that with thetn the resurrection is a resurrection of the body , and that the soul which for ages may have been in a state of wretchedness or of felicity , will then be again United to the body . This , perhaps , is the only alternative for the

    imtnaterialists who do not admit the sleep of the soul . On the subject of baptism , they are Baptists . It appears to me that the avowed opinions of this new sect on the persons <* t the Trinity are precisely those which were held by Dr . Watts at the close of his life . These are found in the

    Doctor ' s " Faithful Enquiry after the Ancient and Original Doctrine of the Trinity / ' published by David Eaton , 187 , High Holborn . Hie language employed by Watts is as follows : ' That God the Fathel * is a true and proper person , a distinct , intelligent Being , with a distinct understanding and distinct will , as all proper persons have , and it is very plaiti that the full and coinplete Godhead is in this first *

    person , who is usually called God , and senMftimes tfr 6 Father . " €€ If we inquire concerning the Son of God , who is usually called the second person , we kno \ v abundantly frbni scri ^ tnre , tftat he \ k the man Christ Jc&ii * , The aon amon ^ fhgfr is another distinct person who is derived frOrh

    the father , and usually bears the nearest rfes ^ mblaiiefc to the father ; so Jesus Christ , the Son of God , i& another distinct person , w& 6 is derived frdm God , hte Father , and betcrd his ito&SLr&st resemblance ; frttt the most o ^ vtotis reason of hie bfeing calfed the Son of Gdd is mdst evident frorri Luke L 35 :

    ^ The Holy Ghcfet sliafl cpme tipon the ^ , and tlie potv ^ r * of the tiighfest atoall bvetehtxlow thee , " &tc . Wafts sdB ^ os ^ s th etf Jesus ' . ltad a bu « natn bx ) d ^ 4 WtttSsk a ra tional soul ; which , if I ngfcttHr understand itB is not ot tnese le

    ttie opmioiK- peop . " And altHotigh the body of Christ ; Irad no being' then , yet it must be

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    New Sect &f " Holp-GhoiUbehiers * \ 63

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/35/