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    he turned away , and shaking the dust from off his feet , came to rest his bones in a free soil . Our country is honoured in proving- his asylum and final resting place . We regard his

    memory with a fond reverence ; and every time we think of his remote and quiet grave by the banks of the Susq uehannah , we feel tempted to make a pilgrimage , arid offer our thanksgivings to heaven for the instructions and the life of such a man . "

    H . TAYLOR . Since writing the foregoing , a Unitarian newspaper , the " Christian Register , " of 29 th January last , published at Boston , has been put into

    my band , which contains some editorial remarks on a late controversy in that city , on the opinions of Dr . Watts . The concluding paragraph or two , I think , may interest some of your readers .

    " We have , however , in our hands , by the kindness of a friend , an original and unpublished document , which must convince any candid mind that the Doctor , if not a decided Unitarian , had at least himself such doubts , and such a readiness to defend those who

    doubted , as would subject any one at the present day to the imputation of downright heresy and Unitarianism . The document to which-we refer is an extract from a letter written by Dr . Watts , in 1724 , to the Rev . Thomas

    Prince , minister of the Old South church , in Boston . This extract , from Dr . Watts ' s letter , is quoted by the Rev . Mr . Prince , in his own letter to Dr . Watts , in reply to the one from which he makes the extract .

    " After suitable preliminary remarks , Mr . Prince says , in his letter to Dr . Watts , ' I would humbly venture to make a few observations on the following passages . You say you cannot

    yet assent to this position , that the denial of the divinity of Christ is as culpable as that of God the Father ; for it is not the equality of the objects can make the crime equal , unless there be also an equal

    revelation of them , and an equal ease to come at the knowledge of them . Guilt arises chiefly from the proportion of light . God the Father is known in a hundred Instances by nature and scri pture ; which say nothing' of the Godhead of the Son /

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    " Another passage in Mr . Prince ' s letter , in which he alludes to the opinions expressed by Dr . Watts in his letter to him , is to the same effect :. " ' And though you seem plainly to intimate / ( says Mr . Prince to Dr . Watts , ) ' as if the Godhead of the

    Father were much more fairly and clearly discovered in Scripture than that of the Son , yet , how you will make it appear , I am at a loss to determine / &c . fs Upon these statements , " ( conclude the Editors of the Christian

    Register , ) * ' we shall at present make no farther comments , but leave the subject to the candid reflections of all who feel an interest in the question /'

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    Sir , YOUR correspondents have from time to time alluded to Mr . Irving ' Orations for the Oracles of God , and , on the whole , perhaps they have received quite as much attention as they deserve . But I do not recollect that any writer in the Repository has

    noticed the last published volume of Sermons by Dr . Chalmers ; though , from the specimens I have seen , I should think it fully equal to Mr . Irving * s volume : some of its faults are of a similar kind—with this peculiarity on Dr . Chalmers ' s side , that he has a most unfortunate propensity to weaken a strong argument by recurring to it over and over again . " But , "

    says the Christian Observer , * ' if it should happen that he sometimes says ivill where an Englishman would substitute shall , and asserts his Caledonian ' just , in many places where we should insert just nothing at all , and Is rather too friendly to that ancient and respectable partnership ' ever and anon ? and occasionally manufactures a new word to the tacit injury and reproach of an unoffending old one ; and now and then , that is , * ever and anon / turns about to knock out the brains of an enemy whom he had dispatched before , or to strengthen

    by new out-works a position already impregnable : so completely does he possess the enviable art of fixing our deepest attention , and carrying us away with him in the progress of his argument , that these little delinquencies arc instantly forgotten /* Forgotten these things might indeed be , not only by the Christian Observer ,

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    Dr . Chalmers ' s late Volume of Sermons . 135

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/7/