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    his intercession aa efficacy which they would have predicated of that of no other being in the universe . Their Son of God is confessedly to my mind , let me repeat , not a very distinct , or perhaps very intelligible object of conception : but that their Mediator , the man Christ Jesus , was not , in their

    notion of him , as different a personage to what he is in that of many of my Unitarian brethren , as the Logos , ( whatever that word may mean , ) incarnate in his person , would make him

    also to these my brethren ' s apprehension , if with that word they connected in any sense the idea of Deity , I could no more convince myself , without offering violence to my understanding , than I could , for one , believe that in

    their creed , heaven and earth were the Jewish and Gentile worlds , or that an anthem occasionally sung to the victim of the cross , shut Deo , would have sounded strangely in their ears , though they had been opportunely

    reminded at the moment of aspiration , that he was no longer visible to mortal eye , and consequently could know no more of what they were thinking or saying or doing , than any other being who had not the attribute of omniscience . Whether now I am

    right or wrong in these fanciful or well-founded conjectures , am I therefore only to be excommunicated from the pale of Unitarianism , or scarcely hear it said , even in an argument ad homines , that squeamish verily must be the conscience which feared to sit

    in Parliament beside a Catholic , when it quietly looked in the face of a man who , qu& Unitarian , must deny the divinity of Christ ? Let me not , however , be misunderstood . I impugn not a faith in the " mere" man : I deny for it only the exclusive usurpation of a name : I protest only against

    so dogmatically identifying that faith with the apostolical , or that only those who hold it , and believe that the apostles held it in all its arrogated and ostentatious purity , should be allowed to put in for them , and for themselves , a claim to the title of Unitarian Christians . That a less

    intolerant use of the name amongst ourselves would redeem it from more than half its obloquy with our opponents , and propitiate many to our persons and our cause , who , rather than adopt the associated tenet , would fancy them-

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    selves anything rather than what they are , and join , or even lead the worship of Athanasianism itself , I shrewdly suspect , if I must not be said to know .

    That it would be any compromise of our sincerity , as a fraternity of individuals having no common bond of union but the Scriptures , is a question which it becomes me rather to

    submit than determine , but upon which I can entertain but one , and that a moat decided opinion . J . T . CLARKE .

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    280 Hymn of Mrs . Barbauld ' s , Essex Street Collection .

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    Sir , April 30 , 1825 . WILL any of your correspondents have the goodness to inform me whether the alterations introduced into Mrs- BarbaukPs beautiful Hymn ,

    " Jehovah Beigns , " in the fcssex-Street Chapel Collection of Hymns were made by the author herself or by any other person ?—Whether these alterations are improvements is another question : I confess I think them much the reverse under either supposition . But under that last mentioned

    they appear so unwarrantable , that one can only wonder they should not have been , publicly animadverted upon .. E . T .

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    Todmorden , Sir , April 11 , 1825 . 1 MUST confess a little disappointment at the total absence of any

    remarks on the subject of ordination ,, which has been brought so prominently forward in a former Number ,, ( pp . 81—83 , ) by Mr . Baker ' s defence of the ceremony at BoJton * It is not

    my intention at present to enter upon * the merits of the question on scriptural grounds ; and it would therefore be improper to make any assertions respecting it , in that point of view . I may , however , here observe , that it is difficult to conceive how any service

    clearly marked by miraculous circumstances , and proceeding in all its parts on supernatural sanctions , can become a precedent under ordinary circumstances and to individuals , not one of whom has a jot more authority than any of the rest .

    Neither do I now complain of the service called ordination , on the ground of its being " an infringement of Christian liberty / ' Every society has a right to make regulations for its own government , and to adopt

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/24/