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substantial trityirtph over writers well skilled in t ^ - ^ s' ^ P ^ tt ^ . iU ^* - On the same account , it jms obtained the victorjA in instance ^ Vh § re the defence «! i $ has been ac ^ unpaaied by much irrelevan t and digressive matter , or bv considerable bitterness of
sarcasin and crimination . The " Three Letters" of Mr . Wellbeloyed , and his " Three Additional Letters / 5 come before us with nojie of these disadvantages : of his correct and various knowledge he makes a most judicious use , and strictly observes arrangement
and order , courtesy and decorum . ^ In a literary no less than in a theological view , these pamphlets do him high credit , and are worthy of the very honourable and important office which he sustains . Among * a number of respectable and successful associates
in the thorny field of controversy , he appears with particular distinction . Until scriptural studies are far more generally and assiduously cultivated , other Wranghams may be expected to arise . Let polemics , however , resembling that dignitary , learn , from
the issue of the present discussion , to be more circumspect and cautious : let them not presume on the alleged utter insignificancy of the advocates of Christian Unitarianism / but know that there are those who can expose ignorance and repel slander . For what we b ^ lteve to be " the truth as
it is in Jesus , " we caii scarcely form a better wish than that , whenever so assailed as b y the present Archdeacon of Cleveland it has been assailed , it may obtain some Wellbeloved for its defender ! Such a defender will not
be wanting , if we patronize as we ought the great cause of a so and theological education . With nothing short of this must we rest satisfied :
its moment is only inferior to that of religious principle . Unlearned or half-learned teachers of Christianity , will in many cases do it a « ' mighty wrong . " N .
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Art . II . —Sermons on the Study of the Bible , &c . By Win / BrW D . D ., &c . ( Continued from p . 172 . ) DR . BftUCEenters in Sermon VI ., entitled < c Our ( Saviour's poctriae concerning himself and the Holy 2 g
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Spirit , " upon the proper Arian doctrine , as it is held in modern times . He opposes equally the hypotheses of the Trimtarians and" the ( English ) Unitarians , and seems to build upon the maxim medio tutis&imus *
According to him , the soul of Christ animated the body of Jesus , and hence Jesus Christ may be considered as possessing two natures , an angelic and a human . This appears to us to be a gratuitous supposition . If it serves to explain a few doubtful texts of scripture , it involves not a few
difficulties . We may fairly ask 9 when t&e angelic soul became united with the human body ? At the birth of Jesus , or on his assuming the Messiahship , or at any point of the intermediate time ? If the accession took place before manhood , there was not so
much the union as the absorption of an angelic spirit ; if it did not take place till Christ , in the scriptural sense of the phrase , " came into the world" and assumed a public character , we shall
in fact attribute to him three , instead of two , natures : and in this complex nature it would seem absurd to predicate of him any thing purely human . The force of his moral example and the lesson of his resurrection are on
this , as well as the Trinitarian scheme , nearly lost . The Holy Spirit is regarded by our preacher as a person , " a separate intelligence subservient to Christ" ( p . 119 ) . This , let not Dr . Bruce he
alarmed , is real Socinianism . He will find the notion asserted by Mr . Biddle in the first of the old Unitarian Tracts , 4 to ., in a Letter to Sir H . V . Mr . Biddle professes ( p . 12 ) to believe the Holy Spirit to be the chief of all ministering spirits , and places htm in the third rank after God and Christ .
Dr . Bruce may , however , fairly plead that the doctrine has been Arianized by its adoption by Mr . Hopkins , the learned author of theP Appeal to the Common Sense of all Christian
People / ' pp . 66 , &c . Dr . Bruce is obscure upon the subject of creation by Christ , p . 127-We believe he means to represent him as the Creator of the natural
world . On what slight foundations does this stupendous hypothesis rest ! For our own part , we cannot hesitate a moment in assigning a figurative sense to those passages in the New
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. Review . —Bruce ?* Sermons on the Study of the-Bible . ~ 225
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/33/
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