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    ready as any one to allow him the character of a learned , pious , and useful man . and to admire the

    * beauty of the greater part of his i poetical compositions ; but , like

    other great men , he had his blemishes , which , though but few , in comparison with his excellencies , were nevertheless of such a magnitude that it is much to be regretted , by every friend to

    rational religion , that he should have retained them so long ; and that , a * fter he became convinced of better things , he did not live long enough to accomplish what

    he so much wished , viz . a complete . > revisal of his Psalms and Hymns : what a proof it would have been of the strength of his mind ; what service to the cause

    of pure Christianity ; and what a prevention of those absurd notions which his Psalms and Hymns , in their present state , have contributed so much to perpetuate among the lower classes of society But here is the proposed creed .

    N . B . To prevent confusion by a multiplicity of figures , I have only referred to the pages in Burder ' s edition , by which any psalm

    or hymn may easily be found . I . Our Maker is our God alone : " No other God beside

    him is to be owned or adored " ( page 1 O 4 ) , yet there are two

    other persons or beings to be owned , viz . the Son and Spirit , each of whom is God , and a proper object of adoration ! ** Thus God the Father , God the Son ,

    And God the Spirit , we adore ( P * . ' 43 6 . ) See , also , the Doxologies at large .

    II . God is a " Holy One , " and yet a " Sacred Three , ** i . e . J * e is indivisible , but yet divided !!

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    Compare page 241 with 257 &c . &c . III . The Lord our Maker is u the highest God' ? ( p . 350 ) , or u God most high" ( p . 196 ) . He is far above all his creatures ( p . 300 ) , Jl yet there is one of human race , " i . e . a creature , that

    claims ' a full equality with hiai . " ( P . 350 . ) IV . Christ is not only equal with the Father , but in some respects vastly superior to him . 'Twas Christ that " quenched his Father ' s flaming sword" ( p . 357 ) , c < Calm'd his frowning face" ( p . 385 ) brought him to * smile

    again" ( p . 396 ) , and prevailed on him to " lay his fury by . " The Father ' s name is Vekgeakce ( p . 385 ) , but Christ is " the dearest of all the names above " ( p . 405 ) .

    V . God , who is an immutable spirit , condescended to be born /' and " came to be suckled'' ( p . 339 and 238 ) . " The Mighty Maker" of the worlds , and the

    eve relivingJehovah , not only suffered stripes and wounds , but

    was actually crucified , uttered his cc last groans , " and died ! {/ The helper of the distressed was once

    w When God , the mighty Maker , died For man , the creature ' s sin . "

    in < c deep distress" himself ( p . 9 ^ and 306 ) .

    ( P . 326 . ) € t The eternal God comes down and bleeds , To nourish dying worms . " ( P . 43 a ) See also pages 238 , 306 , 323 , 333 , 33 S , 339 , 384 , 432 , &c-VI . He who is God over all ,

    and an underived Being , } ias , nevertheless , a God over him , and a Father to whom he prays ! ( P « 62 , 125 , 266 , 371 . )

    , VIL Jehovah is a forgiving

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    5 S ( S Dr . Watts ^ s Trinitarian Paradoxes .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 598, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/22/