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We have one objection' of trfore importance "to tnak ' e- ^ an objection "which we are rfcther tired of in akin g , but dave not suppress . Mr . Beard ought to answer ' diffy for himself , when he denies ( p . 10 ) that- Christ was * ' a ibere man / ' We * know that the difference lies in the way Of understanding the expression / and not in ^ toe ophiion : but we assert that the " Unitarian body generally does believe Christ to have been < c a mere man ;*•
l . ' ^ . 'td have had no principles involved in his nature which other men have not ; and to have differed from them only in as'far as the influences to which he wag exposed after his birth modified the direction of those principles . He was favoured with a Divine commission , and
endowed with unparalleled powers ' : btrt his nature was wholly human . This is , we believe , Mr . B . * s own opinion , and we are therefore sorry that he did not explain what peculiar meaning he affixes to the words We have quoted . In his other statements we heartily concur .
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Art . IV . —The Doctrine of the Trinity examined by the Scriptures A Lecture . By the Rev . H . H . Piper . Sheffield . 1831 . A very useful discourse , faithful in , its matter and simple iu its style , and therefore well adapted fojr . the purposes implied in its title . The most prejudiced of tne orthodox in Sheffield cannot , we are sure , find in its spirit any thing discreditable to our cause . The orthodox
or heterodox any where , may profit by its attentive perusal .
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GENERAL LITERATURE . Attr . V . — The English and Jewish Tithe Systems compared , in their Origin , their Principles , and their Moral and Social Tendencies . By Thomas Stratten . Holdsworth and
Ball . 1831 . It is surprising that the Legislature has not been iucessantly petitioned for the Abolition of Tithes from the time of Penn ' s first imprisonment unto this day . ' That the church should still be what it
is , is only to be accounted for by the supposition that the people know as little how it came into its present state as they have hitherto cared how it is to get into a better . If the brief statements which follow were printed on a sheet of paper and left at every house , ' how could the clergy themselves gainsay the reform that would be demanded ? If they are
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honest men i they Would themselves b £ the first to petition . X . The Jewish tithes were appropriated , not to the priests atone * Jwit to the whole body of the Levites , which com prehended the physicians , the judges ,, ahd all the scientific men in the ' Hebrew , nation . So that if we will maintain the
analogy between the Jewish and English tithes , We are bound to insist that all the servants of the state , arid all" professional men , shall be provided for out of the ; tithes . But , 2 . The tithe institution w ^ s an essential part of the law , and , therefore , as
clearly abrogated by the gospel as any Other " part of the law . No one has ventured in our day , or we suppose in any other , to affirm that tithes were enjoined or countenanced by Qhrisjt or his Apostles . We know that the clergy , as well as the poor among the first Christians ., were maintained in a very different way .
3 . The first mention of tithes for the clergy , which occurs in ecclesiastical hisr tory , is in a decree of the Synod of Mascon , in 586 : and it was not till after this that tithes were countenanced by any but ecclesiastic law . Their imposition in England began with the recognition of the power of the Pope , 4 . Black stone declares that the tithes
were originally divided into four parts , — one for the bishop , one for the poor , one for the repairs of the churches , ana the other for the incumbent . The bishop is now provided for by other endowments j the poor by poor-rates ; the repairs by church-rates i and the incumbent , therefore , appropriates the whole .
5 . By an infamous act passed under Henry VIII ., the tithes were , in certain cases , allowed to pass from the . poor and the clergy into the . hands of laymen . Every pretence of" justice and decency is violated In the maintenance of these Jay impropriations .
6 . The imposition of tithes naturally acts as a check upon the improvement of the property subject to the tax ; insomuch that when land is spoken of as tithe-free , it is immediatel y understood to be capable of increasing its value in a much more rapid ratio than other land .
This last fact is enough of itself to condemn the tithe system - and it shall , therefore , stand last in our list , though very much remains to be said upon the practical grievances which clergy and people are daily sustaining for want of church reform . Of these grievances none can be ignorant who are acquainted with clergymen , or who own land , or who read newspapers .
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490 CriticalNotices s ^ MisceHlaneorts .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 490, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/58/
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