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phrase in question , from its frequent occurrence * appears to have * beea a cosnmoii , apd therefore well under * stood form of expression : it occurs usually ia the course of historical
narrative , where the writer is simply stating * a fact , or designating- a class or profession of persons , and where those who * profess the name of Christ / ' or the simple term "
Christians , * ' would have equally well comported with the drift of the passage . That such was really its import , and that it was a Hebraism in common use > has be ^ n shewn from the instances already adduced , and is further proved from Deuteron . xxviii . 10 : " And
all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord : " qi ^ ovtoci < re rrravrcc tcz , eOvvj ty ] <; < yri <; y on to ovofxa , Kupta EitiKEKXriToct cror that the name of the Lord has been
called upon thee . The sense of cognominor to EitkKockzQfJux ' i is common both in Xeuophon and Lucian : but it is , I think , more to the purpose to appeal to the collateral authorities in the writers of the Jewish and Christian
Scriptures than to those in profane authors , whose use of the term would not be conclusive as to the use of it by a Jewish writer of Greek . The conjunction of ekikolXeoiacci with ovo [ acx , in a sense of religious subjection or
allegiance , is an idiom , which seems to have been imported into the Greek language from that of the Hebrews ; aad to have been adopted by the apostles from the Greek Septuagint .
The several passages , which I conskier as pFOofe of the sense which the apostles intended to convey , being equivalent to Christian profession , are not new to Mr . Yates , for he has himself quoted and arranged them with great perspicuity and effect in his " Vindication , p . 225 / ' I cannot
disguise nay astonishment that , having brought them to bear with such complete success against the display of texts adduced b y Mr . Wardlaw in defence of the idolatrous worship of Jesus of Nazareth , he should still profess that he is in a state of uncertainty : and that he should have weakened the
force of this part of his Vindication , by such previous admissions . I do not appir ^ ud Xbat Mr . Yate s means to allow * l&ftt if the swse of " taking Chriaifa naniej' be found inadmissible , it will follow that Christ wm invocated
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in grayer : but the effect § f * bis £$$ cessions is to ( oa > ke it appe $ ? § o > and to lend additional weight to the argument in favour of such , invocation
SERVETtTS . P . S . The friends of Unitarian truth will , I dare say , feel their obligation to Mr . Yates for his having so promptly acceded to the suggestion of your correspondent Proselytus : will the author of " the Sequel / ' allow me to hint a hope that the new edition will be printed of a uniform size with the
" Vindication , " in order that they who possess the latter may be enabled lo bind them in one volume ?
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Rebuke $ f Intolerance ir *> America * 4 € *
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Rebuke of Intolerance in America . MUCH respected correspondent A has sent us the following extract from an American paper , edited by Mr . TValsh 9 the American traveller and political writer . Being himself a zealous Catholic , " ( says our
correspondent , ) his testimony in favour of the Unitarians in America is particularly valuable , and his exposure of the bigotry of Dr . Mason the more striking * . Dr . Mason when here , \ think , published a Plea for Catholic
Communion : but it seems his Catholicism is particular , as I think Tillotson observes of Roman Catholics /*
INTOLERANCE . Dr . Mason , President of Carlisle College , delivered an animated address to the Legislature of Pennsylvania , oa the occupation of the new State Capitol at
Harnsburg . Some phrases , such as ** i > e ~ nerable Bearers , " " friends and fat / iers , " applied to the legislature , give rather a grotesque air to the composition , but , on the whole , it was well adapted to th ** AfnnrrpnfP and i mzirtr&ri hv # » TErv = » l _
lent doctrine . The foUowing passage deserved all the attention and reflection of his auditors * M The first great question with all earthly legislators should be , not what is popular ^ but what is right , making the point of popularity to be at all times subordinate to the point of integrity ,
having always a distinct reference to the presence and the commandment of oxut inw finite Judge . We are here upon ground where all is authority on one side , and all ought to be obedience oa the other * The divine law admits 6 € no compromise : and the legislation wbifeii does not pio ^ eeed upon this . principle , £ roust take leave to s ^ y , is rotten : aud f aa h disre-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/13/
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