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men , setting up our banners in the name of the Lord , with truth , freedom , and eternity , for our watchwords , that by our exertions and the blessing of the Almighty , the pure gospel of Jesus may have a free and widelyspreading course , and every fellow-man may sit under his own vine and his
own fig-tree , none daring to make him afraid . Abundant reasons for assurance of success we may find in the temper and weapons of those who make themselves our adversaries . The disposition they shew , and the clamour they make , are strong indications that they themselves feel their strength to be weakened , their arguments to be exhausted , and their system to be in danger .
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Art . I . — Sermons preached in the Parish Church of St . Botolph , Bishopsgate . By Charles James Blomfield , D . D ., Rector , now Bishop of London . London : B . Fellowes , Ludgate Street . 1829 . We notice this volume of sermons , for the most part practical , and as may be inferred from the talents and attainments
of the eminent author , abounding in excellent observations , for the sake of a few remarks upon one in the collection , No . XXI ., which is materially different from the rest . The subject is the " Athanasian Creed ; " the occasion , " Trinity Sunday ; " the text , our Saviour ' s words , Matt , xxviii . 19 , "Go ye , therefore , " &c , and the preacher regards this as " the shortest and most emphatic of the Scripture sentences > which assert or imply
a three-fold manifestation of the Deity in the economy of redemption . " Can the preacher point out any such sentence in the Scriptures that is longer ? Let our readers then bear in mind that the preacher regards the Father ( whom our Saviour calls ** the only true God , " John xvii . 3 ) as 4 < a manifestation of the Deity ; " so that in that case , one manifestation was sent by another , and this is a part of ** the ecouomy of redemption . "
The Bishop regards his text as " distinctly announcing , and as it were embodying iu a sacramental symbol , that wonderful truth of which he [ Christ ] hud before asserted the separate features , the equality of the Father , the Son , and the Holy Ghost . " —P . 377 . The Biahop admits , p . 381 , that" what
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is termed the Apostles' Creed is not the composition of those holy men , " although " the profession of all its leading : articles may be traced up to their time . " Few Christians will deny this . But the Bishop afterwards affirms " the Athanasian Creed asserts nothing but what is
implied in the Apostles' Creed , " ( P . 388 . ) In that case " all the leading articles''' of the Athanasian Creed may be traced up to the times of the apostles . And the Bishop himself declares , " Thus , then , as to doctrine , the Athanasian Creed asserts nothing but what is implied in the Apostles' Creed . " - —P . 388 .
" The Father , the Son , and the Holy Spirit , are each spoken of in Scripture as God . " Moses is also spoken of in Scripture as God . Jewish prophets and magistrates are so called , John x . 35 . " We are driven to the conclusion , " ( he says , ) " that in the unity of the godhead there are three subsistences or persons , a term which we are compelled to use , as being the most expressive of our very inadequate idea of this manifestation or exertion of the divine essence . "
The Bishop , after thus preparing the way , comes to " what is commonly called the Creed of Athauasius , " which he says , honestly , is not the production of that celebrated father , but probably called by his name , as exhibiting a compendium of the doctrines which he so
strenuously maintained . Docs not the Bishop at the outset of this defence acknowledge that the Athauasian Creed is a forgery ? ** God is represented m his JVord > as subsisting in three persons , as having made a three-fold manifestation of himself ,
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. Critical Notices . — Theological . 181
Critical Notices.
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THEOLOGY
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/37/
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