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      Scraps ofInjbrmati&n . * Sir , April " lO , 1812 . I have not forgotten my propo * sal , of occasional communications , made at the close of your fifth volume ^ [ pp . 636—640 . 1 though

      I have so long delayed my re-appearance . I now offer you Vvfaat occurred- to me on reading your three tmrrtbers for the present yean P . 9- -Df- Leeckmafc . May I be allowed to ask how that piotts and learned divine could

      comrnunicate what the late Mr . Kenrick and his ingenioas biographerwoilild esteem 6 i rational and animating views of God and the Christian re- * vel&fciofii , * and yet bear true allegiance as a beneficed minister of tfcc * ' X ^ hurch of Scotland ? That

      Church peremptorily enjoin * the gloomy cr ^ ed * of Calv in , kjfi which aswDr . Price observes ^ ( Sermons iW 52 ) her clergy y 4 * not only < d ! e * dare fcfoeuT 1 belief but th&Jt ¦ they will constantly adhere t& itt -that l

      is ^ j newr g * o w wiseiv I would fortber enquire , in behalf of Dr . I /« Mi orthodox ibr # thr ^ n / 4 ; ' why their Cc violent oppoa * ii 4 i ^ fi pbpl ^ eps xronscientious ^ certarinty c ^ onsist ^ nty ' shouild be cendui ^ d' rather

      than- a rational € hristiai / si ac c ^ u tance ^ of an > brttwadox ^ tbeol < D ^ i j ddl chair V * . v ; •» : « . t : ; ' ir ; - - P < p « 11 y 13 Viwilm * : Hits been

      I be ] u * ve ^ Wng knoWn asithefsigu itoturb ^ iti the Thebliogictal Repo ^ « tory , 1 ofi th » e late' vQ ^ erdbk i Mr . Turneru of Wakefield . . ¦ i i . ; ¦

      i ) Pp . 17 , IS . 1 M . Adam Glarte i osu tiie Nature of * Afc > 8 crp * nti . \ Vfkenu this 1 leafned > crittcieU&frges aorrot cm *' the : Septuagint tfefnisu Urtioa ^ afe to ) thq sens ^ 66 the HJeu

      bhsw oiiginaly cail > hri believe the fUnarp i ^ ep irdtrtatt : ofi / fi tihe New Testament writesty » f iwho ^ J lie riba serves , scarcel y' eVext quote the ^/ . 'j r . h , v : ] jo i a

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      Old Testarhfent ^ but frotto the Sip tuegitbt translation , and ^ c ^ rceiy ever , change k word in their quotations ; " and especially , in the instance alleged , " copy this version" so erroneous ? Dr . C . &s a Trinitarian , must hold the omniscience of Jesus Christ . How to this

      belief can he rec 6 ncilehw opimon of our Lord ' s reference to the story of the Fitl / , \ fchen * he exhorts his discipltes to be wise as sttpeniti " though the Serpent had no concern in the transaction ?

      This critic ' s notion of the Ndt ± chos / i as sl creature dorttesticitf ^ d ^ ith Adam arfd Eve l 6 th ^ tvotoan no doubt having often seen hi ' m walk erect , talk and rea ^ oir , " reminds me of the iollo ^ in ^ p& $ sage ill Brot ^ rt ^ s Vulgar Ei ' rb ^ s .

      ** - In the picture of Fararfi ^ , and delusion ot our first pareht * , the serpent is often des ^ rib ^ d \ vifth human visage ; not Uniike unto Gadmus aiid hteMrite in the act

      Of thew metoniorph <^ is . Wnfch hnat sl were ryicto ^ riat tdntt ' rVartce or invention of ttie ptetufer ; but an ancient ! t ^ rt 4 itioiv , ^ rJd conceived reaKty , a ^* it ^ tandg delivered b ^ Btda and auth <> iji of sotae knti - h )

      q ^ ii ; thap ^ hat > Sata « a ^ earL . ed not unto Eve in the ii ^ Wed foi ^ oifiS sefpenti , Jiul' w * tb a ^ virgin ' s bead ^ that thereby he rtnight be . boma tpme acceptable , ahd his temptation findi the eatfter er > t «^ r lamrtienti ^ Thi « , Dr . » . calh

      < 4 a conteit not to be ad milted , and quote * » $ > r < rrm £ artd Siirc ^ Ais who thought M th ^ aistitinptioiv of humaii . rfu ^ pe had proved * d 4 « adi .

      vantage to Satwu ; > « tfartWng not oalyr iU suspidioiri ;^ mas ^ ment in Evel b e fore ) the / fact , in beholding a tbirdi hnmianityT besidet ¦• lers ^ tf and jidamL ; l bill lemvinjjp sohie . eXicustrilnto ^ th ^ woiha ^ vrbkH ^ af * »• ¦ i »\ » » ¦ ¦ ' ' , "

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      ^ 83 S Scraps of Informaii ^ m

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/30/