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    reader ^ : ) r . Spry ay be essential or useful ; nevertheless , it should have escaped his censure . Our author charges Mr . Laadsey with having made a rash and unfounded assertion , when he declared

    that the fecnous clause in Rom . ix . 5 , was read so as not to appear to belpfig- to Christ , at least for the first tliree cejatories . However , adds the select preacher , * Mt is not accessary to suppose that he knew * tins not to be true . But Mr . Belsham either

    Jknew it , or he has never read all that Whifcby wrote upon this very passage / ' With the same want of candour and of justice , the select jpEeacher levels a sarcasm at €€ Mr . LdndseyV fidelity and the easy credulity of Mr . Bebhan , " -p . 117 .

    The truth is , that Mr . Lindsey * has expressed himself with his characteristic modesty and caution : on the passage before us he observes , " It would seem that it was read /' &c . &zc . If some of the early fathers cited and understood the last clause as re *

    ferring to Jesus Christ , still a powerful stress may with reason be placed on the opposing statements found in others of them , and produced by Dr . S . Clarke f whose argument , certainly , goes to shew , that neither in point of principle nor of fact can the text be serviceable to Trinitarianism *

    Mr . liiadeey ' s remark , we admit , would . have been more correct , had it been still more qualified . We take the ca 6 e to have been , that of this famous passage no such application was generally made by Christian writers of the earliest ages . \ Learned halls and academic bowers

    are occasionall y visited by Dr . Spry , who , nevertheless , could not have been at Oxford when he penned the sentence , I have no present means of reference to Origen . " How scanty then must have been Mr , Lindsey ' s ' * means of reference" to that father , when he drew up the Sequel to the Apology ! §

    * Sequel , &c , pp . 204 , &c . f Scrip . Doct . of the Trinity , No . 539 . J Our copy of Bowyer ' s Conjectures belonged formerly to a distinguished scholar , who , in the margin , ad loc . has put his broad negative onWhitby ' s statement in the Commentary . § His note is taken mainly from Clarke .

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    < 3 oatirovdrsial writers wortftf be more readily disposed to allow for each other ' s omissions , &c . ^ did they bear in mind the frequeift , n $ y palpable , errors , into which learned and worthy men , of various communion s ^ have fallen , as the effect of a too

    rapid glance of the eye at the pages of their predecessors . In Bowyer ' s Conjectures , under this very text , Mill is represented as affirming that of Rom . ix . 5 , which , in reality , he does not say of it , but of 1 Tim , iii . 16 . Clarke , * too , is cited as the

    authority for such a representation : whereas Clarke gives the words of Mill under No . 540 , and not under No . 539 } and the mistake of Bowyer , or his friend , has plainly arisen from the circumstance of his having overlooked the distinction .

    With regard to Coloss . i . 15 , we shall simply lay before our readers Mr . Weiibeteved ' s convincing note on Gen . i . 27 : " The Apostle Paul evidently conceived that the power of man constituted his resemblance to God . See 1 Cor . xi . TV

    [ See , too , Ps . viii . 5 , 6 . ] As to the passages which are usually produced from his writings ( Eph . iv . 24 , Col . iii . 10 ) to prove that holiness , righteousness , and knowledge , were also qualities which the historian of the creation had in view

    when he spake of the image of God , a careful and impartial attention to these passages will shew , that they refer not at all to what Ad ^ iri was , but to what the professors of the gospel ougbt to be . "

    That the preposition ev has various signification may be allowed : that it has quite so many as Sclileusncr assigns to it , we nasty fairly question ; and it were to be wished , that this otherwise excellent lexicographer had been more studious of condensation and perspicuity in liis statements of

    the secondary meanings of words . If Col . i . 15 , be compared with th £ seventeenth verse of the same ; cbQptei \ tlie passages will be found illustrative of each other ( j j / covrep £ kti < t 9 y } tu KOCVTCC , K . T . X . * * * TCfc TtOLVTCl BV UVTG > o-vi / ea-Tvjyce ] . No different ' . principle of criticism can be legitimate . Let us next attend to the select

    preacher ' s additional remarks on * Scrip . Doctrine , &c .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/34/