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    Pepish God : that we do not worship the God of the Athanasian Evangelians : that we have not a common object of worship with the Anthropomorphite Trinitarians * who , denying that the Father of Israel is their Saviour , and the Most High God their Redeemer , bow the knee to the humanity of God in the person of his crucified Son . "—P . 27 .

    Servetiis examines some of the Reviewer ' s criticisms on former Unitarian writers , and hesitates not to avow his dissent from some of their arguments and conclusions . " In another place you seize hold on what you regard as a concession of Mr . Yates , fatal to the Unitarian cause : that he is unable to form a very decided

    opinion on the meaning of the phrase * calling on the name of the Lord : '' Acts ix . 14—21 ; 1 Cor . i . 2 . I do not wonder at your seizing this advantage

    I only wonder that it should have been given you : and I must again remind you that your bringing forward the opinion of an individual proves nothing , unless you can prove that the general body of Unitarians hold the same : but so far

    from being able to prove this , you must in the present instance be fully aware of the contrary . Mr . Yates , and not the Unitarians , is responsible for the doubt and the difficulty . Wakeneld , a competent scholar , I presume , thought the proper renderiug of the words was being called

    by the name of the Lord , ' or * taking his name upon them / What , then , is to be done ? We must step out of the ' single text / and take our stand on the broad analogy of Scripture . We there find that the apostles * bowed the knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . '

    It happens , however , that there can be no doubt , and that there is no difficulty . The phrase is neither more nor less than a Hebraism ( for , strange to say , though you and Bishop Horsley imagine that the apostles were insuired to write modern

    idioms for the express use of the English nation , they actually employed the language of their age and country ) ; the cauicg on the name , or calling a name "pon them , implies no more than the beiug enrolled as the followers of him by whose name they are called . l

    qissent , as much as you can do , from the supposition of Mr . Yates , that * nis passage is purposely left as a trial of our humility ; for if idiomatical usage did not authorise the construction of ' calling « w name upon them / or « being named tL naine / stUl ^ would wot follow ™« , because praying in Christ ' s name « J *< i tefa R baptised into Christ ' s name , wy were sajd to call on Christ ' s name .

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    therefore they invoked Christ as himself the object of praj r er . The word £ 7 riKaXs / Aai is the same that occurs in the passage of Acts , I appeal unto Caesar : ' Acts xxiv . 11 . It has , therefore , no necessary and inseparable connexion with religious invocation . "—Pp . 72—74 . 4 C The next charge is more serious : you really appear , for once , to be in the right , in so far as the individual is concerned . Mr . Worsley , as well as Mr . Yates , must ' bear his own burthen / I have not the book before me , and I

    cannot , therefore , tell whether you have garbled the extracts or stated them , fairly : but his allusion to the Magi , which you , of course , hold up to your readers as a specimen of the way in which Unitarians treat Scripture , is probably connected with a doubt whether this much-canvassed narrative be Scripture or no . But your chief charge respects the name of the

    Lord of Hosts . That political preachers have perverted this title , to consecrate the unhallowed ambition of statesmen delighting in war , is a fact that requires no proof : but it seems strange that Mr . Worsley should both have countenanced this false interpretation by regarding it as the sense of the Hebrew nation , and that he should have overlooked the

    occurrence of the name in passages of unequivocal inspiration . By describing the writer , with mock gravity of information , as ' no Deist , but a minister of a Dissenting congregation , who dedicates his

    work to the Unitarian Fund , ' you wish to convey the impression that the identity of the Hebrew title Lord of Hosts with that of the God of Battles of the northern nations , is the familiar and approved construction of Unitarians . Your malice

    shall be disappointed . 1 shall simply refer the reader to a Sermon , entitled ' The name Lord of Hosts explained and improved , by Joshua Toulmin , D . D . ' It is there expounded as implying dominion over the hosts of heaven , *¦ the moon and the stars which he had made : ' thus

    involving at once a reproof and refutation of the Gentile worship of the planetary idols . I mention the definition , because though ' smelling blasphemy afar off , ' in Mr . Worsley ' s mistaken irreverence for the term , I suspect you lie vinder the same mistake as to its import . The

    blunder was originally Voltaire ' s . * You will not be able to make much of this discovery . Mr . Worsley is in orthodox company / ' —Pp . 81—83 . Charges of various kinds are pre-* " Dietiounaire Philoso ^ hrqlie , Guerre , p . 108 . " . S 1

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    Review . —A Plea for the Nazarenes . 107

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/43/