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    tion of u but One God , the Fa . ther , " cannot be unfairly designated by the former . Let there be no contention , however ,

    about a word ; let as many Chris , tians , and as many sects of Christians , as please , be adorned with the honourable appellation which they envy , and wish to deny us ; let the term Trinity , according to Calvin ^ u barbarous and pop / sh , be buried in everlasting

    oblivion . Names are the feelers with which truth searches out irs road ; and if the Christian world were once to agree in receiving the denomination of Unitarians , it would not be long before they would return to the ancient and

    simple fflith of the Divine Unity . Amongst the ignorant , it has been at once an objection and a reproach to Unitarianisrn , that it rests upon a critical interpretation of the Scriptures , The charge is disproved- as far as it is material .

    by numberless instances , in which unlearned persons have been led into the Unitarian faith , by a study of the authorised English version . But it is only with the ignorant , that tlie study of biblk cal criticism can be held cheap ; every man of good information , not to say of learning , knows its immense value to the right understanding of the sacred books . And if Uriitariamsm have increased ra *

    pidiy of late years , may it not be because the means of biblical learning have been abundantly multiplied , and a sensible approach nude towards a perfect text of Scripture , and especially of the N . T . ? - The publication of Griesbach ' s

    u Explicationcs locorum Vctcri * ct Novi Tcatamenti , ex quiljus Trinitatis ogrna stabiliri solet . " ? " I .. V . \ r

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    N . T . forms an epoch in the hi ^ tory of sacred literature . His text is , we believe ^ a standard one with all that can read it for themselves . Trinitarians , as well as Unitarians , agree in its praise . But it is a singular , and to us a

    pleasing fact , that , though no Unitarian himself , faithfulness , as an editor , has constrained him to exclude from his te ^ f , seve ra l of the passages which- have been always accounted the firmest supports of the Trinitarian

    hypothesis ! This , to an Unitarian , appears to be in the natural course of things ; and he argues from it , surely not enthusiastically , that the more light there is thrown upon the Scriptures , the clearer will the great truth of the Unity of God be revealed to mankind /

    Of Griesbach ' s labours , Dr . Carpenter frequently avails- him * self ; showing that he is a great , though not indiscriminate admirer of this learned man ; of whose merits and services [ not intended , and , therefore , the more effectual ] to Unitarianism , we were never so fully convinced as in perusing these Letters . Mr . Vejsie ' s Preservative consisted chiefly of cc a long list of unexplained texts / ' [ vol . iv * p .

    290 , ] which , with all the others bearing in any shape upon the Unitarian question , Dr . Carpenter has particularly investigated .

    His work reminded us frequently of the invaluable volume b y En * jedinus * on the same plan , and suggested to us as often , the remark before made , of the advantages derived to modern Unitarians from the reformation of

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    Revitxo .- —Carpenter ' s Letters to Fei / sie . 145

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/41/