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* As to the Incarnation , there is a stfoifg fact in his ( Christ * s ) history , which is » good collateral argument in favour of The immaculate conception . Had Christ contracted niatrunony , all his doctrines would have proved untenable . "—P . 149 .
. The passages that we are about to take notice of in the Eclectic Review i ^ ccur in a critique on a posthumous work of Dr . Dwight ' s , the American Divide ; a system of Divinity , of which a large portion consists of an explanation and defence of the Deity of Christ and the Trinity .
An early quotation is introduced by ttee Eclectic with this remark , sharply pointed by bigotry : < c On the mind of a Unitarian , the forcible argument urged in the following passage , would , probably , make no impression : to a Christian it amounts to a demonstration /— '* P . 257 .
The Reviewer quotes with much approbation , tlie semi-profane argument of Abbadie , so suitably Englished by M Gowan , who in a vision saw the learned and pious Dr . John Taylor in hell-flames , •* that if Jesus Christ be net very God , the Mahommudan
religion is preferable to Christianity , and Mahomet the greater prophet /* What does this amount to but the vulgar «* orthodox' * resolution , that if some f&vourite point of divinity be not found in the Bible * the Bible shall be thrown into the fire ? And does this
Protestant Dissenting writer mean to advise his reader , who cannot find the absolute deity of Christ in the New Testameat * to turn apostate and curse his Saviour Of his I own sagacity , or from the American Professor ' s ingenuity , the Reviewer discovers that unless Jesus
were the Eternal Jehovah , he was tightly put to death , and the Jews deserve praise for the deed : " According to the Socinian scheme , the Jews * instead of being guilty in putting Christ to death , acted meritoriously ; ftftr they only obeyed the Divine law in pMtteJriii £ hin > as a blasphemer . If it itfkmld be said that the Sanhedrim
misunderstood our Lord , they were guilty , at tbfc wsorst , of only a mistake , and a miatake for whiph Christ was himself reaponstole . Ttw * y were bo further guilty , than \ vould be a j ^ ry who should , through an favolnntftiy error of judgment , find a man guilty qf a capital crime * on evidence which should aifcefrwarda prove tq have been faUariou 8 * ' % -MP , 258 .
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Can any sane writer hope to &er * e the interests © f truth and piety by anch cold-blooded triflfrig with sacred thfnj ? s qxx < £ such daring absurdities ? 6 Dr . Dwight , as quoted by the Re , viewer , argues against the Unitarian hypothesis on the &e \ v ground of its making too much of Jesus Christ , at least in reference to the Other ' s love
" On the supposition of our opponents we should have much more reason to admire the love of God towards Jesus Christ " than to admire the love of God towards us , "—P . 259 . This is silly enough ; but what will the reader say to the passage that fok lows , extracted from the American Professor by the Reviewer , and
constituting part of an argument for the deity of Christ from his own assump * tions ? " He always taught in his own name ; even when altering and annulling the acknowledged word of God . —In even
part of this employment he taught in his own name . —Not once does he say , Thus smth the Lord , during his ministry ; nor teach with any authority except his own . —The same authority also Christ assumed and exhibited generally , when he wrought miracles ; and he never makes mention
of any other /'—Id . Dr . Dwight is one of the few American heroic poets ; he may be pronounced also an heroic divine ; for never was there a more direct contradiction of our Lord ' s own discourses ,
even to the very letter , or a bolder defiance of truth . Had the Reviewer forgotten the whole of the four Gospels when he quoted with approbation this extraordinary passage ? They who can write thus , or tolerate such shameless
assertions , can have no other standard of truth than convenience , and no other rule of faith tjian inclination . The American Doctor is not contented with a single act of theological daring ( > Ire really maintains according to the Reviewer ) a plurality of Divine Beings J
" Some very striking , and we believe original , remarks occur relative to the doctrine of the Trinity . Dr . I > . maintains that * the admission of three infinitely perfect Beings does uot at all imply the e # - iptenceof inomGpds tk ^ a one ; ' inasmuch aa * the nature , the attributes , the views , the volitions ^ and the agency of thr < # Beings infinitely Wfect , must ^ exacny the same . *"—P . 261 .
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< J 0 ! 2 &ttra ~ 7 Vinit&riamsm in Gentleman ' s Magazine and Eclectic H evwtr
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 602, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/34/
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