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another opportunity ere long to demonstrate , that in many places , a dread of clerical influence and authority is going" to an injurious extremethat you must either abolish the order at once , or allow it to exert a mighty influence on society—that a clergyman has as much right to exert such an influence by his fair character and
assiduous attention to duty , as any other class of men—and that , in the existing state of knowledge and independent inquiry , so far from the clergy being ever like to obtain any thing resembling the spiritual domination of the dark ages , the danger a 2 id the probability lie all on the other side . Of course , I allude not
to a merely politico-clerical order . I am unable to perceive how " the passages quoted by Mr . Baker can scarcely be said to have any reference to the subject . " With respect to advice , Mr . J . says , tc there is enough on record / ' But
will not advice be more effective , if given in a public , solemn , viva voce manner , before the congregation ? 4 C Enough on record" ? Why then will Mr . J . ever write or preach another sermon ? The nature of
mankind , is , not to sit at home in the calm of philosophical abstraction , or to be for ever poring over old-fashioned printed books , but sometimes to go abroad , and look at each other , aftd talk , and originate , and dramatise U little on this proscenium of
existence . Let your severe correspondents , JVIr . Editor , come out of their studies for a titre , and gaze on the sun-shiny side of Dinner-speeches , Bible - Society speeches , Ordination Services , and the like , ( against which ,
in some points of view , it may be perhaps in tbeir power to laugh or to be querulous , ) and they will assuredly go home better pleased than to be always dreaming over gloomy possibilities . Let us labour with all our
might to remove I , existing , 2 , impending , and 3 , and lastly , only conceivable and distant evils . New University in the Metropolis . An institution of this kind , when
once established , although prejudice and interest might succeed for a time in depriving it of parliamentary countenance , tvouki be almost sur £ at lert ^ tli of co mmanding e ^ ery aid which ! the legislature could give it .
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Peculiarities -of Phi to , &c . A fe * references would have causal this ^ r * tide to appear less like a prize essay written in support merely of an inge , nious hypothesis . Baxter MSS . Mr . Biddle ' s " Great Congregations" is a fact worth all the rest . Do they apply such phrases now-adays to Unitarianism as " venting blasphemy" ? Or are we no more civillv dealt with than were our distant predecessors ?
Review . Spry ' s Sermons . It is most lamentable to think that for the next three or four hundred years , and perhaps much longer , the minds of Christians are to be distracted and harassed about the true meaning of a few Jewish phrases . Vast and bitter must be the struggles , before all the students of the Bible will coincide in
their explications of these very difficult terms . I can conceive of no summary mode of settling the controversy , and one becomes absolutely sick at heart with the thought of the anger , jealousy , hatred and suffering , that must be developed in the continued prosecution of a few etymological questions .
In the margin of the first page of tins article , the 43 rd verse would have been appropriately added to the 42 nd of the xxviith chapter of Matthew . It might have been well to ^ illustrate by references the position that all things mean all mankind , both Jews and Heathens .
At the bottom of p . 297 , Trinitarian seems an erratum for Unitarian . How far may the honours and promotions of Dr . Spry be traced to his two orthodox sermons ? Brace ' s Sermons . The view given of the intercession of Christ , in the
beginning of this article , would probably cause offence and pain to the believers in the common doctrine . Nor ought we to wonder at it . It is like being forced to take an awful leap into vacuity , thus to see the
personal intercession of Christ , on which one has hung so many dear and firm-felt hopes , changed at once into a vague abstraction . I allow that this is no argument against the Reviewer s doctrine . It may still be perfectly true , although it is dreaded more than a venomous serpent by the most pioufc Calvinists existing .
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332 Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for Maty , 1825 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1826, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2549/page/16/
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