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wear imputing to God the policy of overcoming evil with evil : ? I am far fram supposing that such is the intention of those who adopt the hypothesis ; but what better would they be able to make of the principle , should they see it adopted in any form of human government ? But if we exclude from our views of the
atonement every thing vindictive , regarding it as truly a display of love , and of such forbearing , forgiviug love on ths part of God , as was exemplified by the Son in praying for his enemies , how truly do we behold a reconciling sacrifice , in the highest degree adapted to melt the heart , and reconcile the sinner to God' "— -P . 200 .
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Art . Ill —An Essay on the Charac ~ ier and Writings of Fenelon . By W . E . Channing-, D . D . Liverpool , F . B . Wright ; London , R . Hunter , and Teulon and Fox . 12 mo . pp .
67- 1829 . Remarks on the Disposition which now prevails to form Associations ^ and to accomplish all Objects by Organized Masse 8 . By W . E . Channing , D . D . E , Rainford . 8 vo . pp . 36 . 1830 .
Two more pamphlets from the pen of Dr . Channing ! Of them , as of all his writings , we say , Welcome be they ! Welcome the freshness , the spirit , the originality , the glowing benevolence , and the lofty hope , which characterize them all ! The Repository has never been slow to join a chorus which is more
loudly sounded every year ; but neither has criticism upon Dr . C . ' s writings been excluded from Us pages . In fact , Channing is one of the last men over whom we should take upon us to spread the witig of our protection . The determined purpose with which he goes about his work ought to convince every one that
he has settled the matter with himself , aud ia ready to listen to all that can be said against him , we hope not in the spirit of defiance , but of courageous quietness . Of course , his is a perilous station ^ and he . mus t have a care both of enemies and friends , but especially of his friends . His is one of those names
we want to keep holy for the general good of Christendom . And his car&er is a brightening , we trust , and constantly improving one . In every fresh production of his pen , we delight to find symptoms of stronger faith , of wanner love , of more sound , substantial hope . If he does not value lesa the high intellectual
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powers with which God has blessed him , we trust he prizes with metre , devout affection the better gift which has been breathed into his soul ; the strong desire to serve his God aud his fellow-creatures with those powers . Whatever , indeed , may be the opinions of a few scattered individuals among Unitarians , it seems to be pretty generally acknowledged that he has touched the right striuc , and that
it has answered to his hand . He has kindled up more © f true ardour , more of virtuous and independent feeling , among us , than all our critical scholars put to * gether ; and the reason is evident . They have laboured successfully to pull down ; he is endeavouring to build up from a better foundation . The work is growing , and its progress is cheering the heart in everv direction .
Dr . Channing ' s remarks on Fenelon are by this time well known to most of our readers ; they contain splendid and beautiful passages , yet are not without exaggeration , aud now and then somewhat contradictory . We are inclined to think Fenelon \ s views of human nature
also not so dark as Dr . C . has depicted them . So frequently , at least , was this darkness dispelled by his view of the ever-present Deity , present in every soul of man ; so perfectly synonymous in his mind were the ideas of God and goodness , that he never could have contemplated human nature in that state of -abandonment in which Calviuists
sometimes place it . In all his letters , his aim is to turn his correspondents from the unprofitable views of their own sinfulness ,, from the contemplation of human depravity to that of human recovery . Doubtless , he was obscure , but it is an
obscurity which can be better cleared up by the heart thau by the head . A thousand Christians can /*/ what Fenelon means , and derive from their own apprehensions of his meaning consolation aud peace , for one who is puzzled and perplexed by his occasionally ambiguous expressions .
The second pamphlet is weighty and practical . Dr . Channing ' s aim is to put us on ottr guard against the danger to independence of character arising out of the present rage for union and association . We can only make room for one passage , but the tract ought to be in Our readers' owu hands .
" The common opinion is , that our danger from society arises wholly from its bad members , and that we caunot easily be too imurh influenced by the good . But , to our apprehension , there is a peril in the influence both of good and bad .
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Critical Notice **— -TheoUgicak \\ g
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/47/
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