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    ther , to fny God anc ^ your r Before his death he spoke of his going . to God : after his rcsurrec- * { ion , his language is the same , lie disappeared from the sight of his disciples , the same Jesus , with whom they had conversed , and whom they had seen expiring , and now resides in soiyie remote

    region , waiting the time appointed by his father , when he shail again return to the earth , and converse with his fellow creatures . Let me intreat you Sir , to

    consider attentively these circumstances , and to examine without prejudice , what the scriptures say , instead of paying regard to the reveries of any eccentrical divines . If it is an honour to restore a mutilated phrase in an ancient

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    © It , WATTS * 3 TRINITARIAN PARADOXES ; COLLECTED JRO 3 I HIS fSALMS AND HYMNS .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * -

    Digberwort , Wilts , sin , April 6 , 1808 . No books , 1 believe , have more generally found their way into the habitations of the poor , than

    u Bunyan's Pilgrim ' s Progress , " * Hervey's Meditations / ' " The Assembly ' s Catechism / ' and lt Dr . Watts ' s Psalms and Hymns j "

    those last , in particular , are in almost every poor person ' s hands , and I know it to be a fact , that their authority is by some accounted nearly equal to that of the Bible . Impressed with this idea , I had the curiosity lately to

    Tiiuke a certain experiment : i , e . to try what sort of a creed should 1 . form , if I grounded it on these

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    author , how much greater is it , to eradicate pernicious errors , and to promote the cause of truth and virtue ! Your abilities qualify you for -an accurate perusal of the scriptures in the original lan

    guages : but your sermon convinces me , that you have never rnado the subject of the divinity of Christ a principal object in your researches , Kxamine them again and by themselves . It will be no disgrace to you to confess

    your mistakes ; and let it not be said , that a pen , which might have been serviceable to mankind , should be prostituted in support of a metaphysical system * the offspring of dark ages , and of a wicked and interested church . . I remain , Sir .

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    popular compositions , instead of the word of God . Having collected together the most particular expressions of the doctor , on the , Trinity , the satisfaction of Christ- &c I found , upon

    examination , that the substance of my creed would be contained in the following articles , and they may , J think , like your friend Laicus ' s late communication * , be justly denominated " Trinitarian Paradoxes /'

    Before , however , I give you these paradoxical articles , it is proper to premise , that it is far from being my intention to derogate from the merits-of Dr . Watts f as a divine or scholar : I am u #

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    Dr . Wdtts s Trinitarian Paradoxes . $ 97

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/21/