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    this great man had published his excellent piece on the Reasonableness of Christianity , he was most outrageously abused by one Edwards , a furious bigot ; who ,

    because , among . the benefits of Christ ' s coming into the world , no mention was . made of his purchasing life or salvation for us by his ueathj or any thing that sounds like it hesitates not to assert , that Mr . Locke was all over Socinian

    ized , ( or in other words , an atheist , which Edwards represents as synonimous with Socinian . ) To this charge Mr . Locke replies , u What if I should say , I set

    down as much as my argument required , and yetaip no Socinian ? Would , he , from my silence and omission , give me the lie , and say that I am one V Mr . Locke also

    refers to the following passages in his book , as sounding something like Christ ' s purchasing life for us by his death : " From this estate of death , Jesus restores all

    mankind to life ; " and again , " He , that hath incurred death for his own transgression , cannot

    lay down his life for ' another , as our Saviour professes he did /* ( Locke ' s Vindication , p . 264 , 265 . ) Hence it seems reasonable to infer , that , whatever this great man s opinion was , in respect to the person of Christ , he did not think it necessary or proper in these publications \ fully to state it . And , after consulting his Exposition of some of Paul's Epistles , with a particular view to those texts which are commonly urged as proving the deity or pre-existenceof Christ , I do not find that he plainly asserts what is now called the Unitarian doctrine , though ,, at the same time , he does not appear to favour the Trinitarian . The question , therefore , what his opinion was on t ( iis subject , must ( to myself at least ) remain undecided ; unless some other of your correspondents is ia possession of mor ^ certain info rmation respecting it . I am , Sir , Your ' s truly , J . T . E-

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    EXTKACT OF A XETTER FROM CAPEL LOFFT , ESQ . TO A FRIEND IN LONDON .

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    Troston Hall , April 9 , 1810 . 1 have now read the Improved Version of the New Testament , which you gave me , through . I think it on the whole the nearest to the correct sense of the original text of any before . Great care appears to have teen used ; in a manner , almost every means of correction to have been judiciously employed . There are very few passages on the rendering of which I have doubted ; and many to which a new an ( j ; ust or a dearer $ hd

    more exact sense has been given than before . There is in general great merit in the notes . In one considerable point I incline more to the received opinion . It is where on the Revelations the destruction of the earth by fire ' . is represented as figurative . That the earth and other planetary and , perhaps , solar bodies of the different systems , have been so constituted as to require renovation at periods and in a manner unknown to us is , I think , highly proba-

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    Extract of a Letter from Capel Lojfty Esq . 347

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/27/