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    injurious to him , and tending to counteract the effect of our Saviour ' s doctrine . " ( P . 91 . ) He infers from the language of Scripture , respecting the Divine appearances , united with the doctrine of Scripture , that God is not an object of the human senses , that the dispensations of grace have been conducted by subordinate spirits , assuming the character and acting in the name of the Supreme Being :

    " Among these , our blessed Lord , the well-beloved Sou of the Most High , holds the highest rank ; and it has been the opinion of many of the most pious and learned divines , in every age of the Church , that to him , the conduct of the Divine dispensations here , has been entrusted from the beginning : that he was

    the Angel of the Lord , and the Angel of the Covenant , and of the Presence ; that he conducted the Patriarchal aud Mosaicaldispensations ; and , finally , completed the plans of Divine wisdom , by revealing the fulness of grace and truth in the Gospel ; by exhibiting an example of those virtues and graces , by which the favour of God is to be obtained ; by

    sealing his doctrine and mission by his death and resurrection ; and , by the whole of his ministry , bringing life and immortality to light , and redeeming us from the power of sin and the sentence of death . ' * —P . 99 .

    This is not an uninteresting theory , but we look in vain for any proofs of it in the Scriptures . Had it been the true doctrine , our Lord and the apostles must , in the nature of things , have inculcated , recurred to > and expatiated

    upon ' * a view of Providence and Grace , " which the author denominates <( equally simple and grand : " where , however , in the New Testament , is there any assertion of this scheme ? That there are passages in the Gospels and Epistles which are reconcileable to it , and admit of an

    apparently easier exposition upon it , amounts to nothing ; for the same may be said of almost every hypothesis that human ingenuity lias suggested . But we need not press objections , for Dr . Bruce lias made as ample concessions , and expressed himself with as much liberality , as a candid opponent could require :

    iC These convictions have been entertained , both by tho . se who ( ' ( insider our Lord an a Ministering Spirit of the

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    highest order , and by others who identify him , in his spiritual nature with the Supreme God . But , as these facts have not been expressly revealed , they should not be enforced , as forming an indubitable article of faith . Nor do I wish to be , or to be thought , dogmatical on every circumstance connected with the process of redemption . There are many points , on which it is prudent and becoming , even

    at my time of life , to exercise a grave discretion , and maintain a cautious suspense . In religion , as well as other branches of knowledge , we should neither hold all things equally certain , nor equally uncertain ; but receive them with a measure of assurance , proportioned to > the evidence with which we have been favoured , and the information we have been able to acquire . We should always make a distinction between the scheme of redemption , on the part of God and Christ , and the Covenant of Grace between God and JVIan ^ and remembe t that mysteries can make no part of a Covenant . "—P . 100 .

    We shall return on another occasion to this interesting- volume .

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    Art . III . —A Brief Account of the Unitarians i with Observations on the Rev . Edward Manley ' s Answer to Thirty-Five Questions proposed by a Unitarian . By the Author of an Appeal to Scripture and Tradition . 12 mo . pp . 68 . Hunter .

    Art . IV . —A JVord at Parting , in a Letter to the Rev . Edward Manley ; being' a Sequel to the Brief Account of the Unitarians , &c . &c . By the Same . 12 ino . pp . 48 . Hunter . npHOSE that have read the "Ap-JL peal to Scripture and Tradition on behalf of the Unitarian Faith / ' or our review of it ( Vol . XIV . pp . 431 , 500 ) , need not be assured that these controversial pamphlets are worthy of attention .

    The ct Brief Account" is a spirited sketch of the history of the Unitarian doctrine . The author is not afraid either to expose the intolerance and dishonesty of the-enemies of the true faith of the gospel , or to avow his dissent from some of the conclusions ot its most able and respectable advocates . Mr . Mauley , following in the steps of some of his ecclesiastical superiors had siud , that the answers iriven by

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    172 Review . —A Brief ' Account of the Unitarians .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/44/