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more to the Conviction that they are also nearly alike in the authority on which they rest The Romanist has clearl y shewn that , if his antagonist confines himself to the Scriptures ^ there exist no principles 00 which he can reject transubstantiation , which will not enable the Unitarian to disprove the Trinity ; and on the other hand , if he admits church authority to be of any weight in the controversy , he cannot place the Trinity on any basis on which the papist cannot equally establish the doctrine of his church .
The literary execution of these volumes is , on the whole , very respectable ; making allowance for the frequent recurrence of one or two favourite but unusual forms of expression . We may add , that the affectation of continually styling his hero " the Rector of Lutterworth , " merely in order to avoid the reiteration of his name , appears to us in very bad taste . But these are slighter matters ; and we take our leave of the author with feelings of gratitude for much interesting information , in imparting which he has contributed a valuable addition to the treasures of ecclesiastical biography .
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Art . II . —A Connexion of Sacred and Profane History from the Death of Joshua to the Decline of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah , intended to complete the Works of Shuckford and Prideaux , By the Rev . M . Russell , LL . D ., Episcopal Minister , Leith ,
( Continued from p . 561 . ) Proceeding with our analysis of this work , we come now to the third section of the second chapter , which is allotted to an examination into the History and Object of the Idolatrous Practices of the Jews prior to their Captivity in Babylon . Notwithstanding they were set apart by Providence for the purpose of preserving in the world the knowledge and worship of the one God , it is well known that the Israelites , during the early part of their history , always manifested a tendency towards idolatry . Their long
residence in Egypt , and their settlement in a land where they were surrounded by idolatrous nations , had infected their minds so strongly , that not even the severe laws of Moses , nor all the miracles they witnessed , could overcome their infatuation , till a revolution took place in the state of human thought and manners in the east . When Cyrus extended his dominion over Western Asia , the similarity of the Jewish creed to that of the Persians produced in the mind of the conqueror friendly sentiments towards the Hebrews .
" The worshi p of one God no longer had to struggle as before with the practice and opinions of mankind , and from this time we find the Jews such zealous worshipers of Jehovah , that the Greeks could not , even by the fiercest persecutions , cause them to abandon the religion of their prophets . " The nations of Canaan , like other idolatrous people , had mingled together in their religious rites and worship the various forms of Sabaism , Hero worship , and the substitution of emblems . And with respect to the Hebrews ,
" They made a distinction between worshiping strange gods and paying their adoration to Jehovah through the medium of idolatrous emblems . For example , they allowed it to be quite inconsistent with the fundamental
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614 Review . — RusselVs Sac-red and Profana History ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/30/
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