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of that system , or of any of its parts : You will look in vain through that admirable document for the hypothesis of the Athanasiau Trinity , or the metaphysical speculatious of Calvin . That covenant is a perpetual and a worthy monument of the
wisdom and the liberality of the noble men who adapted it ; and it will for ever demonstrate , in language which cannot be misunderstood , their adherence to the principle which has just been defined . "Pp . 56 , 57 .
Many other passages deserve quotation , especially the spirited remonstrance against those encroachments on order ., peace , and liberty , to which what is called orthodoxy appears to be so irreclaimably addicted . Hut we refrain , only hoping that this notice may have communicated
to our readers some portion of the enjoyment which this Discourse , as connected with the interesting occasion of its delivery , has imparted to our own minds . They are such things as these which ought to beheld in everlasting remembrance .
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Art . II—The Proem of St . John ' s Gospel shewn to be strictly applicable to Jesus Christ , and perfectly consistent with Unitarian Christianity : a Sermon , delivered at
Ditchling ; September 9 th , 1829 , before the Members of the Sussex ? Association . By James Taplin , Minister of the Unitarian Congregation , Battle . London : sold b y Si . Eaton , 187 , High Holborn ,- and M Bayley , Battle . 1829 .
The Trinitarian Exposition of the commencement of the Gospel of John may , we think , without much difficulty be shewn to be inconsistent with the passage which it professes to explain , with itself , with the dictates of reason , and with the doctrines inculcated by Christ and his apostles , as well as those
of Moses and the prophets . But it seems to be easier to shew what the evangelist did uot mean , than what he did mean . Those interpretations w ^ ich are most plausible and consistent leave us only a choice of difficulties . Mr . Ta-plin argues that " the beginning" is that
of the gospel dispensation ; that Christ is " the Word ; " that he is , in the scriptural phrase , a god though not God ; and that the ** all things" which were ** made" or rather " done" by him were all things appertaining to the introduction and promulgation of Christianity . That is Co say , he iuclines to the inter-
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pretation of Lindsey , Cappe , Belsham , and Carpenter , rather than to that of Lardner , Priestley , Wakeneld , and Jones . We confess our own leaning to be the other way ; but we must say that IVJr . Taplin has stated his view of the subject with ability and candour ; his closing exhortation to free inquiry , open profession , and huly zeal , is fervid and
impressive ; and heartily do we unite with him iu saying , " Happily for the Unitarian , he is not fettered with human creeds . In the pursuit of truth he sees with his own eyes , and hears with his own ears ; and is free to receive or to reject . What he asserts for himself , he freely allows to others—the sacred right of judgment and conscience . "—P . 10 .
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Art . III . —A Sei ^ mom delivered at Crediton , on Sunday , Oct . 18 , 1829 , on occasion of the Death of Mr . Henry Rowe . By J . Johns . Printed by request . Roberts , Exeter . An elegant , pathetic , and impressive composition . The following passage is extracted , not as being distinguished from the rest of the Sermon , but as a fair specimen of its style , and of the spirit by which it is pervaded .
" The science , the glorious science , of being patient under affliction , was once a secret and a mystery among men ;—but , to such as are earnestly desirous to acquire it , Christianity has permitted it to be so no longer . No art indeed ( if such an art were desirable ) can render the human frame impassive to pain , or the human mind insensible to sorrow .
The searchers of wisdom in the ancient world dispersed , in pursuit of happiness , in various directions : one party placed it in the possession of pleasure , and another in the mastery of pain . Hut the disciple of the Stoic , when suffering from disease , made the memorable confession that pain was an evil ; and the disciple of the Epicurean was deprived of his
sleep , because a rose-leaf had doubled itself upon his voluptuous bed . The Christian , my brethren , has other and nobler arts for commanding pain , and for creating pleasure . Since he cannot be insensible , he makes it his object to be resigned ; and since something will always
occur to impair or to destroy the enjoyments of time , he will fix his eyes upon that sublimer existence , where aloue there are joys that canuot pall or die . He will not expect that the fountain of tears shall throw forth the living waves of immortal joy : he will not mistake the cypress of earth for ' the tree of life
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52 Critical Notices . — Theological .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/52/
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