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the lold school , &s it is ^ uainlly styled -rH > € ^ i si sic ¦ plures . Alaa ! there is the ar « b * * Ho wtver , liis character was so weli estaWished I need not dwell on tfae subject , nor can I suppose , from your eold and feeble request for information , that you have any wish to hear more of one who
C Albrig the cool sequester'd vale of life , Ptfeserv'd the noiseless tenor of his way , " whose works are still in esteem and memory cherished ; yet perhaps you might think the story with its elegant allusions too good to be lost , and that the ' dryness of some of your columns migfit he enlivened by the < c eloquence" or literary garbage of Mr . W . Hazlitt .
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tibte with on $ , ; ftf ^ hftse ^ tj ^ ^ th which 3 nsAi 0 ul j $ n > emy kAovv $ . k $ ) f 0 to cover a retreat /'* * . ^ - < r ; . ,, ^ ^ Kn Dr . Burgess and otih ^ rr ^^ j ' ^ i | ^ vocates for theyerse , c fe *> u \ it as \ 4 upt porting the-Trinity * unjie ^ tajadjing ^ last clause to mean uaity j * ni } equality
of essence , and not ur * ity of c < m $$ nl I changed the ground an (| proved , j % * the unity intended is unity of te&y i * - mony . You adopt this view , aid urge in support of the text the very argument I made use of , and thug ia three ways you trespass agaiast . the . laws of truth and Christiau candpur .
You adopt my line of defence , ai \ d call it a feint ; you abandon tUe only verse in the New Testament which , gives any colour of truth to the lenity , and yet you vilify me as an Unitarian for doing the same thing before you : and , like the jackdaw in the fable , you plume yourself with another
man s feathers , and vilify the very man from whom you have stolen them . But this is not all : you unequivocally set aside the common interpretation of the Trinity in order to adopt the true signification I annejc
to the text , and you say , " I agree with Ben David in thinking , that it was the object of St . John in his first Epistle to condemn certain doctrines of the Gnostics respecting Jesus Christ , and in order to secure a far ~
ther harmony in our opinions with regard to some of these doctrines , I will be so fair and liberal as to adoptthe very statements given by the author of the Letters . " The concession , Sir , is more " liberal * . than you are .
aware of , as it will enable me uv » very short compass to shew thftt-. tlie doctrine of the divinity of Christ originated with the worst enemies -p , f . -the gospel , as a specious plea , for destroying the gospel itself . , ^ My statement is the ? following : Some of the Gnostics allowed that
Jesus was the Christ , but that he vyas a God in the empty form or the > p ? pearance of a man . These w # c called docetcc , seemers or p hantomnts . The other class , of which the Jeadm # men were Cerinthus and Simon , the
impostor of Samaria , taught tfiat Jesus was not the Christ ; but tfyat m Christ was a God , wHch depcenrica upon Jesus at his baptism , residua i # him during his ministry , and then tt ^ off before \ is \ cmcifixio » - 1 ^ oplf 9 ^"
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468 Letter of Men David ' s lojhe Christian ^ mn Gm hva ncer .
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Letter of Ben David's to the Christian Remembrancer . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Sin , REMARKS have been made in the Christian Remembrancer , on the Letters of Ben David addressed to the Editor of the Quarterly Review . I sent to that Journal the
following reply , with the hope of seeing- it inserted : but I am disappointed - I therefore forward it for the Repository , where the subject is known , as being * there already dismissed .
BEN DAVID . Tq the Editor of the Christian Re-, . membraneer ~ Sin , Your remarks on Ben David ' s Letters addressed to the Quarterly Review ought to l > e noticed , and I claim
from the candour and justice . of the Editor of the Christian Remembrancer , the insertion of my reply . And first , I have to observe that you concur with me in maintaining the genu-^ eness of 1 John v . 7 , and yet hold me out to the public as a deceiver . Yqur words are the following , Vol .
VilL No . VI . p . 350 : " The increasing evidence in favour of the verse su ggested the policy of a new position , ^ befo re it should become necessary to abandon the old ground . in hpp ^ less defeat , nor will , the chall ^ Pff ^ tbrQ \ yn out to the , Quarterly Reytevirejrs |> e considered at all inconipu-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/24/
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