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      sages for insertion in this notice of Dr . Jenes * s volume , but we must refer the reader to the woric itself , which will amply gratify his curiosity . We cannot dismiss Bssenus without giyiog our thanks to the author for his valuable contributions to sacred

      literature , which , are not , we fear , estimated according t # their v<te , or received by $ he Unitarians , whose cause they essentially serve , with the gratitude winch the author un ^ ti ^^ tion ^) l y merits Fr <* m that denomination .

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      Art . II . — The Racovian Catechism , &c . [ Concluded from p . 173 . ] T : iE Racovian doctrine concerning th £ nature of the Holy Spirit was ne&riy the same as that held by the modern Unitarians . The Catechism

      defines it < p . 285 ) " a virtue or energy flawing from God to men / ' This definition excludes personality as well as divinity . * But some of the proper So ^ mlans , and particularly those in England , as may be seen from the 4 to . TJmtarlan Tracts , held that the Spirit Wfts a being , the first in rank and dig-T $% y of the celestial hierarchy . The Jwpotjiesis was revived bv the late Mr . Ilopkins in his " Appeal to the Common Sense of all Christian People /' ^ The g ift of the Holy Spirit is considered in the Catechism as two-fold ;

      visible and invisible , temporary and perpetual . In the former pomt of view , it was the same as the gift of miracles , which has been lon ^ withdrawn 9 in the latter , it is still imp arted to believers , and is " a divine inspiration , yvUereby our minds are

      filled with a more enlarged knowledge of divine things , or with a more certain hope of eternal life , also with joy in and a certain foretaste of fixture happt&ess , or with an extraordinary measure of divine glory and piety . " ( P . 2870 A gift 6 f this kind woulfl be artai J&Wm $ , fct $ a miracle of which Ijiere coftud , u ¦ e no evidence .

      * W , W jannot ^ t ^ Bis ; up « m this part of flta Catechism , Wisspwatius quotes the QWrvadpn of Rasmus on , 1 Cor , vii . 39 , t mat ) ** ty , Q one of the anqient ^ ventured mms ^ se ^ t % t ^ Jie HoJy SpiHt w ^ s mm w&e ¦ & * && * & wtth ^ . tlie Eathfcr ana the Son ; not even when th ^ question c ^ aqfmlng the Soa ^ w ^ s every wiiere dis-«« fefce **«* Bi m ibkuk * irirtmh /*

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      On the stibject of t * fe Atotttmen ? the CatecMsm is clear and ratioiial The deatk of Chiist is represent ^ ^ a ratification of liis mission , and as a preparation for liis resuirectioa $ and it is observed with great truil ^ ( V > 302 , ) that in the work of salvation snore depends upon the resurrection than upon the death of Christ *

      Littfe is said in tbe CatecMstn upon the question of evil spirits , but t&e compilers evidently believM in tlieir existence . They seem ateo to fiave lield the common Protestant dodrine with regard to future punishment . The Socinians were decided

      freewilier s . They entertained a pious horror of the consequences of the doctrine of predestination . In their simple metaphysics , the necessity of human actions was synonymous with the destruction of religion , and to represent God as the author of sin was to represent him as wicked . ( Pp . 332 , 333 . )

      It is scarcely necessary to add , iftat they abandoned the tenet of the original and hereditary depravity of mankind . In their views of the Lord ' s Simper the Catechists agreed with Zuingirag , who carried the Reformation further on this point than Calvin , who

      maintained some sort of real presence ; they regarded the ordinance purely as a rite of commemoration . On the article of baptism they were still tttore heretical ; they denied the ordinance to infants , and maintained that the

      only Jproper mode of administering it was by immersion . Socinus , as Is well known , rejected baptism altogether , except , perhaps , in the case of proselytes from another religion ; vai " the fii-st edition of the Catechism ,

      published under his eye , the Lord ' s bupp ^ was declared to he the only ceremonial pnecept . The translator has described in a note ( pp . 257 , 258 ) the state of opinion amongst the present Englb " Unitarians with regajjd to bapfisjj there fe a fourfold division on this point , to * 4 w $ tmy fpi ? brevity W ^ heads

      Claas tW Sj ^ t 3 imiaeriW J > P $ r tfcts , IMMiM "iwelyteJ WB q onsideif feaptj ^ nr a ^ - a jFewii * owj * - vance , and therefore not obligato ^ upon Qent $ le converts , oacI cgjw eqft ^ tijr ^ t itieliW ^ to * e epxtinm *}*" of ro . 6 itrtfetle HC ? 0 i& r ® wWB ^ j ? r , m > It will be seeh ^ tm tSBmW 1 WO-

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      % 34 . Review . T —Dr . . fleess Racovittn , Catechism .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/42/