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readers against the practical error of supposing , that a youth ' s disrelish to the eleixiepts of mathematics , is a characteristic , universal , or even common , indication of genius , or of " in *
disputable intellectual preeminence . " €€ I can scarcely account , " says Mr . Wakefield , ' * for an indisposition to such theories , but from a defect of judgment or dexterity , in the teacher , *' To the biographer ' s criticisms on
the style , &c \ , of Mr . Tollers sermons , * we shall attend in a future and a separate article . Nothing remains for us , at present / butJu 3 t to notice his excursus on church discipline , under which head he further digresses ( pp . 21 , &c . ) to renew certain insinuations
and charges , that have been already the subject of our animadversion . What is tke scriptural constitution of a Christian Church ? The question is important , but accompanied with difficulties . In resolving it , let the genius of the
gospel be consulted . With Mr . Hall , WQ deprecate secularity : we would utterly exclude , if possible , the spirit of the world , and therefore spiritual pride and the love of having preeminence . A pious man may be Ignorant
and illiterate : and it is not every thing which should be entrusted to individuals of this description . Our author's immediate predecessor at Cambridge , was accustomed to speak of " a Lord-brother" as one of " the
worst monsters" in a church professing to be a church of Christ : with at least the genus Mr . H . cannot be unacquainted . N .
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Art . II . East-India Unitarian Tracts . THE Unitarian controversy is agitated with eagerness and zeaf at Calcutta . Besides the publications
of Rarnmohun Roy and the Missionaries , several pamphlets have appeared on both sides of the question , of which , by the favour of a friend , we have obtained , and now proceed to give an account of , no less than nine . Nos . I . and II . are " Queries" ( Pts .
To Mr . TYs single sermons , already mentioned in p . 178 , should be added , one that he printed on the death of the Princess Charlotte .
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1 and 2 , ) * for the Serious Consideration of Trinitarians , " dated Calcutta , May 9 and 12 , 1823 . These Queries are taken from The Christian Reform * er , Vol . I . pp . 87 , &c , and Vol . Ill :
24 , &c . They have been frequently reprinted in England , and we are glad to see them in an East-Indian type , persuaded that they are well adapted to awaken inquiry in the minds of candid readers .
No . III . contains " Two Dialogues , " dated Calcutta , May 16 , 1823 . The first , " between a Trinitarian Missionary and three Chinese Converts , " is a theological jeu d esprit taken from The Christian Reformer , Vol . IV . pp ; 10 , &c ., of which the point is likely to be felt by an Oriental reader . Thfe second , "between an Unitarian Minister and an Itinerant Bookseller , " from the same work , Vol . II . pp . \ 9 , &c , being one of a number of * Recollections , or Religious Anecdotes , ** furnished by Mr . Wright .
No . IV . is " A Selection of Passages from the Old and New Testaments in proof of the Unity of God , ** signed Wm . Adam , and elated Calcutta , May 20 , 1823 . This paper concludes with the following appeal :
" The Unitarians say , that if there be any meaning in language , the above quotations prove God to be numerically one ; and they call upon Trinitarians to prove , by passages equally plain and decisive , that in the Unity of the Godhead there is a Trinity of persons . "
No . V . is " A Faithful and Wellauthenticated Report of the Theological Discussion which took place in Calcutta , on Tuesday , May 20 , 1823 , at a Meeting assembled by Dr . R . Tytler , who had intimated in the newspapers that he would that evening deliver the 6 th of a Course of Lectures
on Theology , and publicly challenged those who might dissent from the Doctrines advanced to state their objections . " Dr . Tytler is of the medical profession , but has been led by religious zeal to devote himself to theological studies . His system is ultra-Trinitarianism , of the Hutchinsonian school . He makes a great parade of
erudition , but his learning is less certain than his being " a complete master of the vulgar tongue" ( Report , p . 1 . ) He was confronted at the *• public discussion" with none but
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Review ,, —East-India Unitarian Tracts . 235
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/43/
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