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    with respect Ca some of the sentiments quoted by yoar correspondent . Immediately preceding the address , the xvth chap , of 1 Cor . had , as is usual , been read . We were there told , that as bjr man came death , so also by man came the resurrection of the

    dead —aud that a time would come when Christ would put down all rule and all authority and power . After this , I could not but blush from a mingled feeling * of pity and triumph ,

    when the orator spoke of Mr . Chase as having- been " thankful for being preserved from what be considered the melancholy error of the respectable university wherein he received his education . "

    /)*• Evans on General Baptists . I regret that this pleasing correspondent should , on such slender grounds , have hazarded the assertion , that Dr . Gale was a Trinitarian . He speaks of Southey . I have always been under the impression that the Poet Laureate himself was , in

    the outset of his career , a flaming Unitarian . Dr . Fordyce ' s Stumbling' at the M&rriage Service . It seems to have been pretty resolute and deliberate " -stumbling . " Plunging were the better word .

    Mr . Cogan on the Greek Article . What Mr . Cog-an denominates a circumstance of difference , would , I fear , by a Trinitarian , be called , a begging of the question . For nay own part , however , I am satisfied with his positions .

    Mr . Taylor on Evangelical Declaration of IVar . But is there any danger of success on the part of these evangelicals ? At all events , I dislike the vindictive spirit of Mr . Taylor ' s communication . Surely , that gentleman and his friends would not ,

    oh second thoughts , withhold the donations he mentions from the beneficiaries who now receive them , even though they should concur in the foiil project in question , of which they yet are probably entirely innocent .

    Dr . J . P . Smith ' s Reply to Mr . Gibson . Two technical terms , Justification and Sanctification , * which ori-* I remember onc # Rearing a sailor , after sitting wfth * no little patience under ffce preaching ef ^ a most profound dts-

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    ginally referred to ce ^ mfti ol » li ^ tioti 5 and ceremoiiials of th ^ Jewik Ja \^ have been seized upon by soi ^ eimal ginativa « i # g&te * $ ! gj % readers of the Bifrle ^ aud c ^(^ fe ^ % ^ & ^ ia& cent , imposing" abstractions , Involving ' and confounding * all our ideas of uuU versal morality . J

    The only occasion an which these terras need ever be used , except perhaps figuratively , and by way of point or illustration , is , when an opponent is contending * for the superior authority of the Mosaic law over that general sense of moral propriety and rectitude which God has implanted in the universal heart of man , and which

    Christ and his apostle ^ vindicated against the prejudiced advocates of the declining Mosaic religion . * v Can we be considered as righteous or justified before God without sttb * mitting to all the restrictions of the levitic ceremonial ? Can we be

    fegarded as holy in the sight of man , or sanctified , without undergoing the same burdensome process ? Yes , maintain Christ and St . Paul ; the internal force of moral character alone ,

    ( which , to be sure , is the gift of God , and may still further be assisted by the influences of his spirit , ) may effect these purposes ; and Jews and Gentiles are in this respect on the same footing .

    In consequence of more or less directly inculcating this blessed and inestimable doctrine , Jesus resigned his life , and thus became our sacrifice . Entertaining , as I do , what Dr . course , when asked how he had beea

    impressed , half-seriously and halNjokiagly reply , " Bless me , if I have understood one word of it except Justification and Sanctification . " Poor fellow ! the last words he could probably have understood were these . But- having heard them run !§ into his ears from his infamy , he had no doubt that he had as clear

    conceptions of them as of any rope in his ship . The late excellent Mr . Thacher , author of the discourse on the Unity of God , once told me , that he found AtKcaocvvq the most difficult word in the New

    'Testament to understand . A ! u , I apprehend the , mpst candid fflfijgK of the Quarterly Review jnt ^ t rcljpmp ledge the account given of JustYficatioii in the article pti Mr . 0 ^ Wha ^? fete # brk to be unsatisfactory iu the extreme .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/14/