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dence , let it be remembered , that to students of their own Church the Institution as primarily adapted—for such it was principally designed . " Pp . 10 , 11 . The Professor of the English Language and Literature has , doubtless , his reasons for selecting the term prudence to describe the exclusion of Unitarian students ; and we should like to know those reasons .
There would be no imprudence in his converting them ; none in his preserving them from Deism . Can he mean that it would not be prudent to allow them the opportunity of talking over his Lectures with their fellow-students ; or to risk the replies which they might make in the course of a private or a public exa * mination ? It is rather too much for
these Church-of-Engl an dists to make a boast of the liberality , which is bouuded , not by principle , but by prudence . In virtue of this same prudence , we suppose , the Lectures are to be incessautly directed to the inculcation of that very doctrine which must be previously held in order to obtain admission .
' * But throughout these Lectures there is one object of which I shall never lose sight , and , consequently , which it is only candid and honest on the present occasion explicitly and unreservedly to avow ; I mean , the constant investigation and exhibition of that immense mass of evidence , which tends collaterally or directly to establish the doctrine of the essential
divinity of the Son of God . Persuaded as I am , that this is the primaiy and pervading doctrine of the Christian revelation ; that it is the rock upon which *> ur common Christianity is founded , and that without it we rise scarcely a single step above the disciples of Socrates , Confucius , or Mahomet ; it will be my constant endeavour , by all honest and legitimate means , to nx a similar persuasion in the minds of the students . For
this purpose , I shall analyze minutely those passages in which the Version , falsely termed Improved , has disorganized the construction , obscured the sense , or neutralized the energy , of the Scripture 1 shall demonstrate how widely the process to which these passages have been subjected , has deviated from all the approved aud ordinary rules of interpretation . \ shall not only shew the connexion between the various texts which
have been thus perverted , but establish their true meaning by the corroborative evidence of manuscripts and of the Fa ^ thers . "— -P . 22 . So cautious a man as the Professor should have been remiuded , by the mention of the Improved Version , of the ex-
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perience of its Editor , when explaining the texts cited in this controversy to his pupils . He may i-ead a warning in the Preface to the Calm Inquiry . The demolishing analysis -which he promises ought assuredly not to Be ^ cor ^ fined to the Students of the London University . We hope it will be published .
The clergy of the Establishment who hold Professorships in the London University are undoubtedly in a delicate and difficult situation . We feel for them as individuals , and would not be harsh or captious in our animadversions . But we must ask the questiou , what makes their situation a delicate and difficult one ? What , but the spirit and policy of the Church to which they belong >
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Art . V . — The Christum Child ' s Faithful Friend and Sabbath Companion , Vol . II . for 1829 . pp . 144 . Hunter , London ; Philp , Falmouth . We have only cordially to repeat our former recommendation of this useful penny periodical , and our best wishes for its continuance and suece&s .
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Art . VI . — Unitarians not Socinians . An Appeal to the Good Sense and Candour of Professing Christians , against the Improper Use of the Term " Socmian . * With a Brief Statement of Unitarian Sentiments . Printed for the Southern Unitarian Society . Pp . 12 . 1829 . One of the very best Tracts of the kind which we have seen , and well deserving of general distribution .
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Art . VJI . —Memoirs of Simon Bolivar , President Liberator of the Republic of Columbia , &c . By Gen . H . L . V . Ducoudray Holstein . Colburn and Bentley . Ducoudray Holstein served in the French army during the revolution , and was afterwards attached to the staff of
Napoleon . In common with many other military adventurers , when " Othello ' s occupation" seemed " gone" in Europe , he repaired to the Spanish Main , " attracted by the sacred cause , " and having " been constantly attached to the cause of liberty in botl ) hemis ^ pheres . " He was then employed first by the local authorities at Carthageua , a »« i afterwards bj Bolivar , who made him
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54 Critical Notices . —Miscellaneous .
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GENERAL LITERATURE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/54/
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