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    sjxbjeet , viz . a future judgment , and on a text on which he has five or six sermons in his wbrks * . " ¦ C ' Mr , CX afterwards examines the Liverpool Liturgy ^ and pro * nounces it , we think very uncandidly , an almost deistical composition f . "

    Though Mr . O . was not a Calvinism he w&s a zealous advocate for what he calls , and what are now commonly called by one class of Christians ^ the peculiar doctrines of the gospel , viz . ' ^ the general co rruption of human nature— -the atone ^

    ment of Christ— -and the necessity of the Spirit ' s influence ^ to enlighten , sanctify , and comfort the soul % . " His antipathy to the Socinians betrays him , in one place , into ^^ s arrant a piece of trifling and folly as we ever remember to Jave sixliled at * In one of the letters to Mr . Palmer , he says ]| :

    " * : * I heartily thank you for your " Answer to Dr . Priestley" Con the Lord's Supper ) and hope it will be of singular service to prevent the spread of those loose , unscriptural , and in a great measure unprofitable notions of that sacred ordinance , which he and too many others entertain- I think I never saw so much of the wisdom and goodness of our blessed Lord , in instituting such an ordinance , as since the notions of the Socinians have so much prevailed ; for it seems as if it was one

    great end of that institution to prevent or confute them ; and while it continues in the church , it will be impossible to hinder the generality of Christians from haying better notions of the atonement of Christ , than some modern writers wish them to have , and from laying more stress upon it , both as the foundation of our Christian hope , and a powerful motive to every branch of a Christian temper and conversation /'

    On other occasions Mr . Orton appears singularly liberal . He acknowledges his opinions were unsettled when he first undertook the pastoral office . He advises Dr . Ashworth to set out in his academy on a generous plan , and never to be the slave of any persons , either Independents or Prcsbyterians orthodox or otherwise . He avows his dislike to and disuse of

    the Assembly ' s Catechism . He corresponded with Mr . Hugh Farmer , and seems to have rejoiced in the impression which his book on the Temptation of Christ made upon the public mind . He remarks on this topiccr What a strange disposition have the Ministers in London , that * Vol . i . p . $% . f Vol . i . p . 80 .

    \ Is it not strange , if any thing ought to appear strange to a person acquainted with theology , that the grand peculiarity of the gospel , viz . a resurrection from the dead , is never included by those that aspire to the high rank of orthodoxy , in the peculiar dictrines \ and that those that are reckoned such should be gathered , not from the Gospels or the Acts of the Apostles , but from dbe Epistles , as if they were a * ort gf after-discoveries- —addenda , to the volume of Christian instruction ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/23/