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vd utvne ( mather : * stick & confession had fiesrer before been heard among Mahometan Doctors . Mr . Martyn is gone to his reward ; he is gone to that tribunal where involuntary error wiH be pardoned . But of his survivors we may ask , Where do they discover that Christ was the Creator ? And
ran a man be justified in teaching such a doctrine for pure Christianity 1 Bwv Jtaps to those who would question Mr . Martyn ' s honesty on this point ) it will be said , as he said to Mirza Seid Ali , €€ If you were humble yoii would not dispate in this manner , you would he like a child . " But was the
humility of receiving dogmas without examination , the humility which Jesus advocated ? Did he not uniformly order his hearers * to ** judge for themselves what is right" ? Had Wicklitfe possessed this humility , where would have been the Reformation ?
May not Catholics say to those who are succeeding Mr . Martyn in Ms labours , Had you possessed proper humility , you never wouki have questioned and rejected Transubstantiation ? It U very common , when a myatery presses , to talk of the absence of humility ia
those who press for information , but surely Unitarians may be pardoned if they spurn such a prostration of the understanding- as . would have perpetuated to the Jatest posterity the errors of P&pery , or rather the dogmas of Paganism . { ,
I have only to say , that I think the Memoirs of the Rev . II . Martyn , from which the above extracts are taken , are from their frankness calculated for good . J . F .
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Sir , AS a proof . that Trinitarians have not yet disowned the phraseology and sentiments of Hall , Wilkins and Clayton , &c , ( Mon . Ftepos . XVI . 642 Mid 716 , ) the Rev . » . « . Milipati , in a dramatic poem , The Martyr of Antiocb , " asserts the
suffering of an invisible and impassible Being , and so confuses the two natures of Christ , as to represent both dying , and suffering on the cross . The poem is itself a most beautiful and affecting composition ; but the poison is not Jess fet&l "because ' the floVers of genius and the dew of . pctesy distil it . '
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JThey bwtid thy t ^ mpie ^ twisted thorn , Thy bruised feet went languid on with iMtyn \ ¦ ' " ¦ rhe blood from all thy flesh witjti scourges torn , Deepen ed thy robe of mockery ' s crimson grain ; Whose native vesture bright Was the unapproached light , The sandal of whose foot the rapid hurricane .
Low bowM thy head convulsed , and droop'd in Death I Thy voice sent forth a sad and wailing cry ; Slow struggled from tby breast the parting breath , And every limb was wrung wil h agony . That head whose veiliess blaze
FilFd angels with amaze , When at that voice sprung forth the rolling suns on high . And thou wast laid within * the narrow tomb ,
Thy clay-cold limbs with shrouding grave-clothes bound ; The sealed stone confirmed th y mortal doom , Lone watchmen walked thy desert burial ground *
JVhom hecLvetL could not contain , Nor th' immeasurable plain Of vast infinity inclose or circle round . For us , for us , ihou didst endure the pain , And thy meek spirit bowed itself to shame , : To wash our souls from sin ' s infecting
statny * . \ T * avert the Father * s wrathful vtngeance-flame , &c . What is this but that the God of the tempest and the storm , " whose sandal was the hurricane , " was buffetted by human insolence ; that the head of him who was the Creator of the
world , was bowed down in the dust of mortality ; that he was incarcerated in a tomb , he , " whom heaven could not contain ; " and that this B <* ng died to avert the " wrathful vengeance-flame " of God the Father ? WpuM not this have been more fitted for their lips rai se
who are introduced as hymning ^ p s to the Delian God , than in the lips of her who is-described as the martyr $ f that Jesue who glorified not himself , but the Father that was in him , and has left us an example 40 worship hi * God and not himself ? ' * . * - * -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/22/
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