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author , which , for convenience * sake , we have abbreviated into two comprehensive et ceteras , and , on the principle of omne ignotum pro magnifico , we think we shall not injure the writer ' s reputation by giving the reader scope for the exercise of his imagination , rather than setting down titles in detail , the most valuable of which tells us that the Rev . Mr .
Greaves ' was ten years curate to the late Rev . and most exemplary , pious and learned John Fletcher , vicar of Madeley , Shropshire . " After due announcement of himself , the writer ' s En Ego tantus sum , comes " a liberty taken" with no less a personage than " Lord Brougham and Vaux , " by dedicating to him " this
discourse on the Divinity of the Saviour of the World . * ' Having placed himself hi good company , the writer grows bold , and thus begins his preface : " Let all the Unitarian preachers in the kingdom , " saith the author , " come forward and answer this discourse . " The writer , " who is a man far advanced in life and near to
the silent grave , " proceeds to make to " the nobility , gentry , and others , " a most modest request—scilicet , that they should , hac vice , turn booksellers , by " uniting with him in making this discourse public . " Mr . Greaves has himself precluded the possibility of his challenge being met , by omitting most carefully the references to most of his many quotations ; and when we have transcribed the following , our readers will know what credit to attach
to his unsupported assertions : " ' For men to worship Jesus Christ as God , ' says a celebrated Unitarian preacher of the present day , * they might as well fall down and adore the river , or worship an image of stone . ' And a noted
Unitarian preacher , some years ago , openly declared , that all the evils that ever existed in church or state originated from that single circumstance , the worshipping Jesus Christ as God , and that he would never rest till he had pulled that idol , Christ , from off * his throne , *
We are bound in charity to believe that this good old man thinks that Unitarian preachers uttered these revolting words , and , so believing , we can understand the ireful mood in which the attack is made—but then we are also obliged to fancy that the good old man is rather credulous , and not burdened with information . Evidence of the latter implication the discourse abundantly supplies . We do not propose to analyse the argument of this Reverend vieilliard . It is not worth the labour . It has not even the merit of novelty ,. except such as is
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derived from rash , unwarranted , and undefended implications . For instance , " If the heavens rolling above our heads , serve us for a pavilion ; if the earth be firm beneath our feet , it is he ( Jesus Christ ) who is the author of both . Thou ,
Lord , hast laid the foundations of the earth , and the heavens are the work of thine hands . Psa . cii . " " If the Jews gained immortal victories over the nations which they defeated , it was he who procured them . The angel of his presence , he saved them . "
Most of all surprising to the mind that knows any thing of Christian antiquities , is the attempt ( and its execution ) to prove that " our ideas on this subject are in perfect unison with the ideas of the first fathers of the Christian Church . " The writer is either deceived by testimonies of which he knows not the value , or misled by a blind zeal against heresy .
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" Critical Notices . — Theological . 7 t 3
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Art . V . —Sermons designed to be used in Families . First American from the second London Edition . We are truly glad to see an American reprint of this excellent volume , because ( chiefly ) we are exceedingly desirous that the best understanding should
prevail between the Unitarians of this country and the United States . In the second volume the Editor has , we are informed , procured the aid of American divines , which , besides increasing the variety and interest of the book , will also , we hope and believe , tend to strengthen the moral union to which we have alluded .
Our readers may not be displeased if we subjoin the advertisement to the American edition . It will serve to shew them how our productions are appreciated in America , and that we are not unrepaid for the honour we are here accustomed to render to the writings of several Transatlantic ministers . " The work , of which the first American edition is now offered to the
Christian public , was prepared by a distinguished Unitarian clergyman in England , and consists of practical discourses from himself and several of his brethren in the ministry . " Its objects , as stated iu the preface to the English edition , were * to provide
discourses fitted to benefit the heads of families in their private meditations ; and others suited to be read aloud in the miscellaneous assembly of the family circle . * These objects appear to have been successfully accomplished in the present volume . The discourses which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 713, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/61/
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