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THEOLOGY ,
Art . I . — The System of Exclusion and Denunciation considered . By W . E Channing , D . D . London . Hunter . " This excellent tract , first published in America in 1815 , has never been reprinted in this country . The excluding and denouncing spirit evinced by some
Christians at the present day , and more particularly by a certain class of Ultra-Trinitarians , at the last Meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society , has suggested its re publication , without note or comment , as a companion to * Objections to Unitarian Christianity considered / by the same author , and lately reprinted . "
We fear the Ultras in question are beyond the reach even of Dr . Channing ' s eloquence . Still there are very many who will have to thank the Editor for the means of that pure enjoyment which they cannot fail to derive from the perusal of this tract . It may be hoped that
it will reach some whom it will profit as well as please . The title is uot happy . For that Dr . C . is probably not responsible ; and he has , we hear , complained of the names bestowed on some of his offspring by their sponsors in this country . The reprint is well timed ; and the tract itself cannot fail to interest at any time .
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Art . II . —Modern Infidelity considered with respect to its influence on Society . By the late Rev . R . Hall . A cheap edition of a well-known sermon , published to assist , by its profits , the Baptist Irish Society , aud by 11 s circulation to counteract infidel opinions . We cannot perceive that , for either purpose , it was needful to calumniate the memory of Robert Robinson . In a Memoir of Mr . Hall which is
prefixed , his illustrious predecessor is described as having a congregation " not accustomed to hear the important truths of the gospel ; " and as going through various " changes of sentiment , until he was hovering over the very undefinablc barrier which separates the colder Socinianism from infidelity . " We have never seen , nor heard of , an atom of
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proof that Mr . Robinson ever hovered over the barrier , as defined by the apostles , which separates Christianity from Infidelity . He would call no man Master , but Christ ; and therefore he was persecuted when living , and slandered wheu dead . One might have hoped that the venom had worn out by this time . It might have been remembered also ,
that if Robinson , at the end of his career , only believed in one Divine person , Hall , at the commencement of his career , only believed in two ; aud that the very discourse before us was originally preached in an Unitarian chapel ; the minister of which
, Dr . Estlin , is mentioned by the author ( p . vii . ) with friendly and merited commendation . The compiler seems to have been " hovering over the very undefinable barrier" which too often is all the partition between the zeal of Calvinism and the bitterness of Intolerance .
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Art . IV . —A Sermon on the Godhead of Christ , or the Divinity of the Saviour of the f lorid . By the Rev . A . B . Greaves , &c , &c . A flourish of trumpets introduces this discourse . First , then , stand the many and high-sounding titles of the
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Art . III . — The Sunday Library . By the Rev . T . F . Dibdin , D . D . Vol . V . Of the sixteen sermons in this volume , five ( in contravention of the title-page ) are not by " Divines of the Church of England ; " four being contributed by the Scotch Presbyterians and one by the English Baptists . There are two sermons each from Drs . Blair
and Chalmers , and a reprint of R . Hall ' s celebrated discourse on Modern Infidelity . We do not complain of this inconsistency , though we think right to notice it . This publication has progressively recommended itself to us . It is much better than it promised . The peculiarities of Church-of-Englandism are very sparingly introduced . We have scarcely ever seen a collection of sermons with so much that is good for all , and so little that can be objectionable to any .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 712, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/60/
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