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    gospel , ) have the positive language of scripture on theicside , and the iCalvi rusts are driven , tb the hard expedient of discovering a' pro * bahle reason , why the sacre d writers said one thing , and meant another * It is but justice to Mr * Booth to admit that sorne of his practical ^ observations are very judicious , and that they bear very hard upon , . some of the language and practices of Evangelical Prqfes *

    sors . In a note , p . 97 , the Editor of the Essays complains of ^ the disingenuity of Mr . Andrew- Fuller , who in his Dialogues , pub . iishrd after Mr . Booth ' s death , introduces the deceased under a feigned name , with a view tore * fute his notion of the imputation of sin to Christ . Mrv Fuller

    must answer this charge for himself : we have only to wish that these disputes between the pte * tenders to divine illumination * concerning orthodoxy , may teach them a lesson of modesty and charity *

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    Art . Ill * The Right and Dutp of a Faithful and Fearless Ex < zrnination * of ifie Scirptures : assented in a Sermon ^ p re ached at the Calvinist Baptist Chapel , Hull ; on the Resignation of the Pastoral Office in that place , occasioned by the Author & embracing the Unitarian Doctrine * By James Lyons * Svo . Is . ( 5 d . Eatou , London * 1808 *

    Seldom have we perused so interesting a sermon as this by Mr . Lyons . It is equally distinguished by manliness , simplicityy modesty and piety . It first "

    establishes the grfeat froiestant principle of the right o £ private Judgment , and then grafts npbw this principle the Unitarian * doctrine . This i& the just order

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    of things ; let men inquire , wherever inquiry may endjv let them prove . all things v and the chance is that they will hold fast ; that which is good .

    . Mr , Lyons is himself an exam * pie oi the . character , which he describes . He has jiobly dared to think for himself in matters of religion : —daay , move * k < $ ha&k « Ml

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    272 Review . —Lyons ' sHigM fyDuty of ' unExaminatibn of Scripture

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    of which Caivmists are perpetual * ly speaking and writing , but of which they are in general lamentably ignorant . On this subject Mr * B . with ludicrous pos ^ ti vi tyj first contradicts the scriptures , ancf then contradicts himself . Let the reader compare the two following passages . .

    " The blessing of reconciliatipn is presented to view , in the tiding ^ of heavenly mercy , under a two-Fold con * sideration : that is of God being reconciled toman ^ and of man being reconciled to Gpd $ both of which are essential to human happiness . It h of the former 9 Jbgittever , that the . inspired writers , most frequently speak ; and in the displaying of which evangelical truth is principally concerned . * ' Pp . 35 , 36 .

    " It is notj tndeed % in the sacred volume > any tubers expressly said , that God . h re ~ cone lied to us by the death of Christ ; hut thut ive are hy his de £ ih reconciled to GW r a « d this the Socinians plead , when , opposing the doctrine of atonement by pur Lord . To which we may reply ; the reason probably is , because God is the party offended . ** P * 37 .

    The Socinians ^ it seems , ( of whom Mr . Booth elsewhere says , iK'ver having probably , like most of his brethren , read a single Socinian treatise , that they deny most of the capital points of the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/44/