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ifeeA&sfetenfc * - * && liSeltl Me speak ^ m % Mi of bis ir ? ead as haring been ' * % < j& $ nm $ t * n £ ^ strictest sense of thV > y ord , and ajttaAed to its p ^ eujiacfltfes f ' tfte peculiarities of Calvinism !
ifi a higher degree than most of the advocates of tfcaj : system ; " bat in p . 43 , the preacher informs us that the aystfetn of divinity to which Dr . IL adhered w&s " moderate Calvinism
&g 'tnoAelUd and explained byJonat&m Edwards . " Now Mr . H . will perfiaps have the goodness to say , whether Calvinisin in its strictest peculiarities , and Calvinism as explained and modelled by Jonathan Edwards , be quite the same thing ? Sure we
are that by Mr . Hall ' s distinct admission , it is a human system : it oi ^ $ lnates with the French , it is qualified by the American divine . No well-inforolc ^ Ch ristian ^ of a class wtmrfi Mr . H . often stigmatizes , would dare to speak of their own religious creed
as modelled and" explained by any * ^ prodigy © f metaphysical genius V did they ^ fco speak of it * they ita ) u < d bg certain -off incurring , and woufif tfe ^ s&rtfe tri iacur , the severest efensures
frtfm this gentleman . They itand exclusively upon the Scri ^ fujfes : upon th-aX ground , if he please ^ let Mr . Hall meet them ! For a disciple and a minister af Jesus Christ to draw
even a modified theology from meta physicians , is to forsake M the foun tain of living \ yaters for broken cis terns . ^
We cannot pass ov = er another erroneous sentiment , or the corresponding phraseology in which it Is clothed : < c There was something- /* says Mr . Hall , in the taste and disposition of our Lord , considered as man , more in
unison with those of John than with [ af ] any of the other appetles . " ( P . J 7 > ) Again , in p ; 18 , *< The cKstingttishing features of our Lord ' s char raetfcr , viewed as a perfect human bein ^ were , unc | u « stional > Ly , humility and love / ' But why these
qualifications—why this anxious discrimination > Is there any thing resemhling it 5 n the Christian Scrfptures ? Do ttie evangelists and apostles studiously inform us that tligjyjg ^ y speak of our Lord as man , nwv as OocJ ? Can we discover such di 9 tmetioiiB in our Sa-•¦ / • tf ¦ ¦" — - >¦• ,- ¦ ¦ ... it . ¦ ' - .- ^ , 1 . jt . tt sfi i- ' rj ¦ ¦ - ' ¦¦ - Y . ^; W ^ fib t lted & : 0 Amildr inconsistency in his Life of Toller , pp . 1 J , 42 .
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viourV vfa' tongtitigft' - Ttefe tttt none of ike kind x ismdr we liesitate not td ad $ tbat n 0 titefeA ' can bfe scri ptural , wMch is Incapuble &f beitig expressed in scriptural phraseology . No passage df this discourse , how ever , is so reprehensible as 1 ; &fefcrHb \ v .
mg : cc [ tjbe ApQ&tle John ' s ] meekness and tenderness were never indulged at the expense of truth , his adherence to which was inviolable ; nor did be fail to express the utmost abhorrence at any attempt to corrupt it ; insomuch that I
can easily believe an incident related by Eusebius , that on his entering a public bath , and finding tlie notorious heresiarch Cent ) thus there , he left it with precip i * tatian * exclaiming * Lei us flee from this plkce , h ? st it fall a « d crush that € Bemy of ^ od . "—P . 22 .
We blush for the easy , credulousness with whicji Mr . HaU receives and cites a tale that ought to be ranked aiBong ^ " old wives fables : " we blusli for his waat of a scholar ' s accuracy
and caution , when he quotes the iiaaa * giaed auchority for s-uch a slfory : above ^ dl , we blush for the state of feeling that makes him embrace and relate it with deliffht .
The jiarratiye does not rest on sriiflSclent testimony . We shall makea reference" * to a part of Larder ' s works , that we Jthiuk conclusive , on this head - Irenfleus alludes vaguely to some who heard the thing from Polycarp . But such a statement of a
rumour is not evidence . Epiphanms tells the same story * with different circumstances , and does not profess to give it on his own knowledge . Let it be considered , too , that according to Iren » aeu 3 aud Theodpret , it was Cerinthus , according to Epiphanius , it was Ebion , whom John met
with m the bath . We are disposed to believe that John in his first Epistle opposes Cerinthus . Every internal mark of falsehood is stamped upon the tale . To be silent concerning the
improbability of the Evangelist going \\> , a public bath at Ephesus ,, l ^ vy inconsistent are such language gp ^ cl . ^ P M duct with " "the beniga . AV ^ ijtitotiJ justly attributed by Alr ^ Jl ^ ltil ^ wi ^ apostle ; affectious greatly . in ^ pioved ^ no doubt , J > at means iof tile ^ aretotoke *
* Works , ( 8 vo ., ) Vol , IL p . B 6 , note
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176 Rexiew .- <~ Wtxtt * £ Sermon on the De&t R h qf Dv- ylimd .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/48/
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