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Art . VII . —An Address on the Nature , Right , etnd Duty , &f Itidfoidual Judgment on Religimts Subjects . By the Rev . J . W » Lovyrie . This address , occasioned by the laying of the foundation-stone of an Unitarian Cgapel in Bishop-Wearmoutfo , Sunder * land , consists of 38 octavo pages , of all
the hard words in the dictionary , a » d upon an average of one idea to every two pages . Among the beauties with which the address is studded , we have noticed the following : ** free as the hicid light ,, " " all beiug heauty and bliss , " " destitution of moral freedom of activity , " " Christians intersected , insulated , and
marshalled iu battle array / ' * a Rivalled Deity , a Paralleled God , and a complicated Divinity , " ^ happiness bleediug at a million pores . " Our advice is , to our readers to buy the address , if they want an infinite deal of nothing * to the author , to consult a judicious friend before he again ventures to commit his sesquipedalities to the press .
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would "be also impious , superstitious , and idolatrous . ;" lie proposes , notwithstanding , to establish , " 1 st , that honour and veneration are due , and may be given to tfefe angels ? and saints of God ; 2 tidlyy that the angels and saints can and do know
when we ask them to pray for us ; atid that they can and do help us b ^ their prayers t and ^ therefore , 3 rdly , that it is both lawful and profitable to ask their intercession ; and that such requests do not derogate from the sovereign worship due to God alone , nor front the sole mediatorship of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ /*
The first of these positions Is dismissed by distinguishing between " supreme adoration , " and " an acknowledgment of respect and submission . " On Rev . xix . l 6 , and xxii . 8 , usually considered as furnishing a direct refutation to the practice of worshiping angels , our author contends that the worship which John offered could not be supreme , which
would have been idolatrous , worship ; and that the angel ' s refusing to accept it , did not proceed from his considering it unlawful ; but that the words which he used sufficiently imply that iris motives were those of humility and modesty , considering the character and exalted dignity of that illustrious Apostle . " The whole passage ^ indeed , may be
powerfully interpreted in out favour ; for if St . John the Evangelist , an inspired Apostle , felt down to worship before the feet of an angel , even after he had been repulsed by that angel's humility , with perfect security may we also venerate the ministering spirits of heaven , and without any fear of our homage being rejected , unreservedly pay them the same kind of worship . "
The answer which naturally occurs is , that the practice of the Evangelist , in paying- respect to a messenger of God when present , cannot afford proof of the propriety of our addressing to heavenly beings the language of prayer aud praise , when we do not know that they are acquainted with our purposes . In order
to establish that necessary part of his argument , his second position , our author maintains from the books of Kings and Chronicles , that seven years after the departure of Elijah from the world , there came to king Jehoram a writing from that prophet , * ' rebuking him for his iniquities , and denouncing the judgments of heaven against him . "
Our author gravely imagines that Elijah sent this writing from heaven , that therefore Elijah must in heaven have
Critical Notices.— Theological 707
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Ant . yill . —Sermon on the Invocation of Saints and Angels , and the Use and Generation of Holy Images Sermon on Purgatory and Prayer for the Dead ; being the Seventh and Eighth of a Series of Argumenta tive Di&bouraes tin the Principal Cwtrovvrted' Points of Catholic Doctrine . Bjr tfe Rev . T . L . Green . Keating and ferown .
We have already taken some notice of the first two in this series of discourses . Passing over the intervening ones which are on Transubstantiation , in which the preacber contends that that doctrine has ecjual proof from reason and scripture with the doctrine of the Trinity , we propose shortly to consider the two discourses which form the conclusion of the
series . The preacher believes in common with all his fellow Christiana , that to God alone is due supreme and sovereign worship 5 and that to render to any of his creatures that adoration which is claimed exclusively by him , would be grievous and detestable idolatry . «« We believe that to ascribe to the angels or
samts any one of the incommunicable attributes of the Deity , to trust in them or pray to them as independent beings , capable of conferring any blessing upon ms , or even of procuring any benefit for » 9 , by any other means than through the infinite and only independent merits of our Lord and Redeemer , Jesus Christ ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 707, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/51/
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