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ing up to ridicule what is at least honourable to God , and accordant with the noblest ideas of his attributes and dispensations , solely to crush an opponent " and then adds ,
• That opponent , however , he has not crushed . The time will come , when the writings of Magee will only be quoted as affording numerous and disgusting specimens of what controversy ought not to be . The name of Belsham will go down to posterity in connexion with the
honoured names of Priestley and Lindsey ; and those who may think that on some points his opinions are not sound , and that ( like Dr . Priestley ) he has occasionally given to others , which yet will bear the most rigid examination , a form that unnecessarily renders them
obnoxious and repulsive , will still admire the elevation and comprehensiveness of his views , the clearness and strength and eloquence of his diction , the judicious arrangement and force of his arguments , and the energy of the understanding , and Christian principle of the heart , from which they proceeded . "—Pp . 285 , 286 . [ To be concluded in the next Number . ]
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thing beyond a common washing , and never affected to deny that bread and wine were extremely palatable with the Paschal Lamb . "—P . 4 .
Coming from a Jewish High Priest to " the Chief Priest of Canterb ury , " the appeal that follows is ad hominerm iC In the name of justice , therefore look upon us Jews as a people whom yoii have injured , and to whom you are indebted . We are not in the case of the
Dissenters , who are said to have injured you : we never turned you out of your churches ; we never set up chapter-lands to sale , nor pulled down your hierarchy
( for it was not till after the Puritans and Protector had laid waste your dominion that we resided amongst you , ) but , on the contrary , it is to us that you owe your mitres and your revenues , your privileges and pre-eminences . If any one asks , Whence do you derive your priesthood ? you know , in your consciences ,
that Christ himself was a layman ; you fetch your pedigree from the house of Aaron , and make more profit to your order of the five books of Moses , than all the four evangelists . "—P . 7 .
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304 Review . —Hindis ' s Sermon before the Western Unitarian Society .
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Art . IV . —The Practical Tendency of the Doctrine of the Simple Humanity of Christ : a Discourse delivered at Bridg eicater , July 19 , 1820 , before the Western Unitarian Society . By William Hincks . 12 rno . pp . 36 . Hunter .
IN the battles of theology it is desirable that the trumpet should utter a certain sound , and we applaud those on every side who speak to be understood . Of this description is Mr . W . Hincks , whose sermon before us is an explicit and manly , but at the same
time not an intemperate or uncandid assertion of the importance of the doctrine of the pure humanity of Christ . He first meets the charges which are brought against this tenet , and next describes the advantages which are connected with it . He denies that it
is blasphemous , or inconsistent with the love of Christ , or heartless and uninteresting , or that it takes away the sinner ' s hope : he contends , on the other hand , that it makes Christianity more acceptable to the reason of mankind , that it guards the Divine Unity , that it sets a proper value on the real
excellence of our Lord ' s character , that it enforces his moral examp le , and that it exhibits the full benefit
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Art . III . —An Epistle from a High Priest of the Jews , to the Chief Priest of Canterbury ' , on the extension of Catholic Emancipation to the Jews . 8 vo . pp . 28 . Wilson . 1821 . rj ^ HIS " High Priest of the Jews " M knows more than becomes a
modern Jewish Rabbi . He is , m fact , a merry Christian , who endeavours to promote by means of irony those principles of universal charity and liberty which have hitherto failed of making their way by pure argument . There is a useful hint to thriving and ambitious Dissenters in the following
passage : " We are not to be answered as the Dissenters have been , that repealing the tests would be of small advantage to us ; for God and your whole order know , we ever had more scrupulous consciences than to be occasional conformists . Though
you may have had Unitarians , Republicans and Deists swallowing your tests , eating your passover , and ratting into those comfortable conscience-traps—the honours and emoluments of Attorney and Solicitor-General—you cannot charge us
with any such power of religious digestion . Ji ^ e strictly confine ourselves to our own sacrament , and never in our lives made free with your sacred ordinance ; and this is the more commendable in us , who do not esteem baptism as any
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/48/
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