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" No man can be said to believe , that is , assent to , what be does not understand : because assent is an act of the understanding , and we must understand the ifteaning of every term in a proposition before we can assent to it , or dissent from it : for words of which we do not understand the
meaning , are the same to us as if they had no signification at all . " Again . "To require any man to belieVe what we confess to be a mystery , is to require him to believe what God hath not revealed in his word , for what is truly a mystery cannot be a revelation made by God . " Dr .
Whitby " . I lay it dowri for a truth , that no man can believe either a proposition or a fact which is wholly and entirely above his understanding to comprehend . For of that which is entirely above our understanding to comprehend , we have no idea : and that of
which we hare no idea is no object of thought , and consequently cannot be the subject of faith , or of any other act of our minds . " No doubt , it is highly reasonable that I should believe a fact which God affirms to be true , although it be
above my understanding to comprehend the manner , how it is . Thus I verily believe , upon the truth and faithfulness of God , that all who are in their graves will be raised and brought to 13 fe again . Which fact I do
clearly understand . But the manner , how it will be performed by the power of God , is quite above my understanding to comprehend , and therefore I cannot believe in that manner , or by what kind of operation it will be effected . " " Dr . John Taylor . ino
w , it your correspondent has any clear ideas upon the subject in dispute , he will see that my opinion exactly coincides with that of the writers above quoted ; who are therefore ^ ually hable to his censure if it be {"* ' * When he has read a little more , * e will probably learn to think more accuratel y , and to express himself » n ° re candidly . A NONCONFORMIST .
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I cantiot help imagining this writer as seated en an elevation , while I cheerfully take my place at his feet , and listen to him with pleasure and instruction . Yet I must ask him if " whether or no" be a correct phrase as he has here used it .
Mr . Cogan on Ned . i . 2 , displays , as usual , an union of learning and candour . * ' Hours of Devotion" No information is more wanted in the religious world , than a lucid and correct account of the state of religion throughout Germany .
Critical Synopsis . What I sometimes seem to advance in a dogmatic and authoritative manner , I only mean shall be taken as the suggested opinion of an individual . Vindication of Mary Magdalene
appears to me too indignant . After the arguments against the vulgar opinion are stated in the strongest manner , it is still perfectly justifiable for a poet to write lines on the supposition that Mary Magdalene had been
an erring woman . Query respecting' " things written in the Psalms . " Might not Jesus have meant , You will find no other person to whom those passages in the Psalms , which have generally been appropriated to the long-expected king , will be found more applicable than to me . Look no farther , therefore , than me for your Messiah .
" So help me , God ! " Nothing , after all , is quite so severe and stinging as plain , sensible truth , ffow little this essay could be pointed by the assistance of rhetoric and epithets !
Dr . / lees on the State of Man , The difference between Dr . Rees and his Reviewer seems to consist in this : the Doctor , by hereditary depravity , means those physical tendencies in the constitution of human nature , which , in exposure to certain circumstances , lead to the commission of vice . The
Reviewer has suspected him o £ favouring the idea of hereditary vice or guilt itself . Unitarian Booksellers and Publishers . I would commission a ; n agent iu
Britain , and one perhaps itf America , whose business it should be , to call on all those individuals , whether Unitarians or of other connexions , with whom success would be in any degree probable , and solicit their patronage
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Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for July , 1825 . 463
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Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository / or July , 1825 . r \ N Minute Accuracy in the Trans-^ tatwn , $€ ., of the Scriptures .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 463, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/19/
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