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    tarians rejected a great- part of the Scriptures , and as evidence of has assertion said , that they considered the passages " Gad shall raise up a prophet like unto me , " and the one in Isaiah , " Unto us < i ehild is 6 orn " as " spurious /* and that " many { many !) of our learned men had saia so , but that divines more learned

    than they had examined the passages , and produced a mass of evidence that could not be got over" ! Now , Sir , I challenge this young man to produce a solitary work written by a Unitarian wherein the two scriptural quotations above are pronounced ** spurious * " He cannot xlo it 5 I defy him : he is aware what be said is a

    falsehood , a barefaced fabrication , a calumny as unfounded as it was illiberal . What pity that evil speaking , l y ing and slandering , do not forpa a qualification for a bishoprick ! For then might this worthy disciple of the burner of good Servetus , this mild

    enforcer of Christian principles , this promising youth who is worthy of the patronage of Doctor Burgess himself , have been promoted to the see of Canterbury . I once heard a notorious shooter with the long bow say , that when a man did utter a falsehood he

    might as well tell a thumper at once . I hope our censor will pay particular attention to this remark , and when he next has occasion to say what is untrue respecting our tenets , to tell his congregations that the infidel Socinians disbelieve the Bible altogether , read instead of it the Edda or the

    Koran , and use a liturgy consisting- of extracts from the History of Jack the Giant Killer or the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson . He will be about as near the truth in saying this , as he was when he talked about the * ' spurious" passages .

    I have two reasons in writing this letter \ the first is , that you and your numerous readers may be aware of the unfair means to which Trinitarians resort in opposing our doctrines , which

    cannot be assailed by any other mode ; and the second is , that Mr . Vint , the Theological Tutor of Idle Academy , may know what sort of discourses some of his students make when

    absent from his institution . —In . conclu * sion , Sir , I have real pleasure in informing you that all this beating of the " pulpit drum ecclesiastic" is at-

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    tended with little effect . Mru Finch is succeeding gloriously ; and I ay ^ ej ^ Jy trust that the miners of Grassiogtqn will ere long have a chapel y ^ we figfi pure , unadulterated doctrines of Christianity may be taught , aud the hymns and prayers be addressed to the * on ! y God , through the Mediator between God and men , the man Christ ; Jews . PHILO-UN 1 TAS .

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    An Examination of JVarburton , &c ( Continued from p . 518 ») ^ Birmingham , Oct . 3 , 1825

    Pensenturtrutma . Hor , IN this paper I resurqe and hope to complete my examination of Warburton's strictures on the historian of the Puritans . ( 35 ) Vol . I . " 574 . [ 492 . T . ] I cannot lightly admit that Neal lias misunderstood Hooker , or argued

    inconsequentially from his principles , or confounded the abuse ; with the proper use of church-rppwer . Even 4 f £ e have erred on all these points , it Wan error of judgment * not of will .: li'tfr . Toulmin , in his note , observes ^ ' tij ^ t the ceremonies , &c , of the national religious establishment were not fixed

    by the church , but constitute part of the statute law of the land , ( 36 ) 575 . [ 492 . T . J the . reiqarfc under the foregoing article , will apply to the present . Who shall decide when and where the Arue religion may be found t Is the magistrate to teach us the genuine doctrine of Christ ?

    ( 37 ) Ib . [ Ib . T . J This stricture of Warburton ' s , is to the same effect with the two last , and admits of nearly the same answer . The laws of a Christian Church should be those which are either contained in the Christian Scriptures , or plainly agreeable to the spirit of them .

    ( 38 ) 579 . [ 496 . T . ] Here the prelate ' s coarse language is levelled at Fuller ^ whose fidelity , however , he cannot with success impeach . ( 39 ) 581 . [ 498 . T . ] I am no

    advocate for the theology of the Puritans of the age of Elisabeth : Neal styles the Lambeth articles •* high propositions , " but does his duty ia recording them .

    ( 40 ) 583 . [ 500 . T . J The annotator aims his ridicule at what he calls

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    594 Examination of War burton , &c .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1825, page 1594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2541/page/18/