On this page

• Text (2)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    iiedoes not believe the coequal and « o essential Godhead of Jesus Christ ; and , therefore , he is to be damned to all eternity . Mr . S tod hart , I am afraid , would not hear him , or he

    might plead , if not in arrest of judgment , at least in extenuation of his crime , that amidst the various and contradictory explanations which have been given of the Trinitarian doctrine , lie Was altogether at a loss to understand what it was that he was called

    jpon to believe . Mr . Stodhart , however , ( whose knowledge , no doubt , is equal to his zeal , ) may perhaps be able to throw some new light on this perplexing subject , and may condescend

    to infgrm us how three fqlse * deities make one true God ; unless , indeed , he should determine , in his anger , to leave us to find out the secret for

    ourselves . But Mr . Stodhart would say , mine is the doctrine of Scripture , and if the Unitarians would read the New Testament with impartiality , they would find it there expressed in every page . No doubt , if they would take Mr , Stodhart for their guide , and obligingly accept his interpretation of

    Scripture phraseology , they would find not only this doctrine , but every other article of his delectable system . But with Mr . Stodhart ' s good leave , they would rather see with their own eyes than with his ; especially as , were they to borrow his optics , they might perchance , imbibe his spirit ; from

    * The Father alone , saith Mr . Stodhart , is & false Deity . " To us there is but one God , even the Father , " says the Apostle Paul . And in interpreting- this declaration according to its literal meaning " ^ I am supported by a good authority . A recent convert to Orthodoxy , in order to guard

    against the dire effects of interpreting * Scripture upon the principles of rational criticism , has laid down a rule of interpretation , in terms to the following- effect : that Scripture language is always to be explained according to the natural and obvious meaning * of the words . Were this

    canon applied to the greater part of the New Testament , what woeful work would it make with the popular theology ! It was kind , however , to endeavour to furnish a principle , which would at once

    clear up every difficulty . Mr . Stodhart , it is to be feared , would not have been thus indulgent ; he would have contented himself with proclaiming , This is the truth , and if you wiilnot believe it , " you will be ) 4 ginned to all eternity !

    Untitled Article

    'which , at present , every feeling of their peart revolts . But Mr S . would add , or if he did not , somebody would for him , the Unitarians perversely and

    wilfully shut their eyes against the truth . It is no wonder that they who usurp one prerogative of the Almighty , should , upon occasion , exercise another . And , in truth , many of our orthodox brethren have a marvellous

    faculty of diving anto the -hearts of their opponents . In the twinkling" of an eye they can unlock the breast of a poor Unitarian , and there , amidst other dire and dreadful things , they

    can clearly behold original depravity , in the shape of carnal reason , arming itself in proud rebellion against the truth of God . Some of this perspicacious fraternity have ascertained that Unitarians are neither more nor

    less than unbelievers in disguise . Others , I am told , have discovered , that , in the heart of a Unitarian , piety at best never rises above the level of infidel devotion . As we have been accustomed to pay some respect to the injunction of our Master , " Judge

    not , that ye be not judged ; " we confess ourselves not qualified to carry on our theological warfare by this method of attack . We , therefore , leave it in the exclusive possession of our opponents ; and much good may it do them—But enough and more

    than enough on this ungracious topic . I will therefore , only add , that it is high time that this damning spirit of bigotry should hide its head and blush . Blush , indeed , it cannat , for bigotry , as it has no feeling , knows no shame . Let it , then , if it must be so , pour forth its fury while it may . The time cannot fail to come , when the wretched

    system which ministers fuel to this unholy flame , shall have been swept from the face of the earth by the progressive operation of that spirit of inquiry , which weak men may lament and bigots may execrate , but which no threats of damnation can intitnidate , nor any mortal power repress . E . COGAN .

    Untitled Article

    The Prophets , Christ , and his Apostles Idolaters ! \ G&

    Untitled Article

    Sir , THE Rev . R . Stodhart [ p . 56 ] stood up at a meeting of the Woodstreet , Spital fields , Charity « School , and affirmed that "he who worshiped the- Father alone ,. without God the Son and God the Holy Ghost , was an tdo-

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/29/