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Sir , PERCEIVE that the wholesome I practice of excluding Arians and Socinians ( as certain protane believers in the Christ are only too justly nicknamed by the advocates of a more divine phraseology than that of the Bible ) from the Christian pale , is
happily gaining ground in the tents of orthodoxy . A Christian then , kclt slo % f \ v , and exclusively , according to the definition of the present day , is one who , dissatisfied with the creed of Christ and his apostles as expressed in their own common-place language , flies to the more lettered
vocabulary of tradition for the better understanding and promulgating their religion ; worships a God who , by some perverse mischance , has no existence by- name in the theology of
inspiration ; and prays after a model which , unfortunately , has neither prototype , nor parallel , nor shadow , of resemblance , in the devotions of any contemporary of the first preachers of Christianity , or of its earliest
proselytes . AH this is , to be sure , as it should be : but , alas ! alas ! for this singularly Protestant , or rather , pure ana perfect and only Christianity , it seems , proh pudor inversique mores I it seems to be only every day less and less popular in Christendom . From the J 6 r 6 miade of Mr . Haldane and
other potent patrons of the Bible Society , it would appear that Arians and Socinians abound on the Continent ; are even ( can it be true 1 ) the i 4 major pars" of the subscribers and members of Committees there , of a Society professing to circulate , ' * without note or comment , " the simple , unadultered word of God . How out
of joint surely are the times in which we live 1 That any but Athanasians should be nothing loth to send the Bible through the world without companion or corrective" / And that in spite , nay , in consequence haply of such circulation , Trinitarianism should be every where upon the
decline ! O , is it possible ? What the Bible < fc gros pas putting down " Christianity" ! Most strange , forsooth ! Yet not more strange , if we may believe the evidence of unwilling wituesses , than true . In this dilemma , what must be doue ? O is it so indeed , that we must either abandon our Bibles or our * ' Christianity" ? I '
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faith , though no Raman Catholic , I have long myself been very much © f that way of thinking . Do advise me , Mr . Editor . The alternative is a most awful one A for CHURCHMAN .
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Correspondence between Mr . Emlyn and Mr * Manning . 2 © tJ
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Mr . Emlyn to Mr . Manning , Sir , March , 21 , 1705 . RECEIVED yours , and have pe-I rused what you say about miracles . I grant the common operations of nature , such as the sun's course , &c , are not called by us miracles ;
but I suppose ' tis for no other reason , but because ^ being usual and ordinary they do not raise wonder . For a miracle , whatever else it implys , must be mirum , else I don't see that the efficient power for some miracles is less than for creation , for indeed 'tis to create a new thing on earth .
Nor do I see but a miracle of some kind may prove a Deity , as dos the creation ( allowing that this latter is a numerous heap of miracles , and contains many more in it ); from either we can but conclude , that there is a
superior intelligent Agent , of mighty power , which , if it be the first and highest agent , is God ; if under another agent , then that other is God ; but some highest there must l > e to rest in . I don't think we can infer
more by meer natural reason ; but then what the Scripture may say as to God being the author , immediately of the world , or making it by another , is of further consideration . As also how far an inferior power may be
interested in it , whetlier by a subordinate , communicated efficiency , or a moral instrumentality ; to explain the philosophy of these things is above us , unless we knew how creation is wrought , and what skill it implys .
As to the difficulty that the Spirit sho'd first empower Jesus Christ , and then be subordinated to him , as ' tis possible the Spirit with which he was anointed , and that which became his vicar may differ , so if it be the same in both we have some resemblance of
the matter in the angels who , oae while , ministered to him , and legious of them ., if God pleased , could have delivered him from his eneinys , but after his exaltation they are under his feet .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/15/
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