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the article is censured as a * ' cavil , * ' because it is t € so often neglected by all , even the most accurate authors . " The very same page ekes Whitby as an authority for the doctrine which all the world knows Whitby renounced . The same thing had previously been done with Milton , p . 21 ; though here , perhaps , the Bishop might plead his own historic doubts on the authenticity of the Treatise on Christian Doctrine , P . 57 . " God" and
« c Divine persons" are used as synonymous terms ; a concession fatal to the entire argument of the writer . But we have said enough to shew the merits , or demerits rather , of this publication . A large portion of it is occupied in the desperate defence of the forgery in the first epistle of John . The rest contains nothing which has not been refuted a hundred and a hundred times . So many of our pages have , during the current year , been devoted to the examination of Dr . J . P . Smith's work on the Person of Christ , that we do not feel it necessary to touch the general argument on this occasion .
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c The eye is not satisfied with seeing , nor the ear filled with hearing . " Eccles . i . 8 . Yes ! it is so ; there is no pausing here ; The soul is not , nor can be satisfied ;
< 6 Fair scenes fill not the eye , nor sounds the ear ;" Nought can appease desire , while aught ' s denied . Like the great ocean , where th * eternal tide Ebbs , flows , and rests not ; or the vaster sphere And flood of universe , whose atoms ride Their circuits endless , is thi * human spirit here .
Oh ! let us turn this craving appetite , This thirst unquenchable , towards wholesome food And " living waters . " And since it is right That we should strive , at least we'll strive for good . Then what seems hardship else , will so prove best ; And Nature ' s statute , Virtue's high behest . 4-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 757, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/33/
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