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    ail ^? bfe cfirsi ^ eBt » airdlthc ^ oagh ^ aiag , a « ta ^ tffk ^! ^ Q ? test ^ 5 Ei » i » is eviden tl y the ; mttat ^ ohvkms and * perbaps ^ ho * ne 8 t-&eate&ed BE ^ ggesttoa that occurs to every inai * - Bin suppose that by taking ; the test , I < # n , oa the ope band , tiring an extensive sphere of influence to bear in favour of the Dissenting interest , ^ nd , on the other , contribute somewiiat to lieal the devisions of the country , by stewing # willingness to conciliate and to meet other parties as sincere as myself half tyay- ^ -shall I be

    consistent and true to refuse it ? This appears to have been the first staggering point with Dr . Doddridge . I sup * pose he ought not to have been so indulgent to it as he seems . He should , perhaps , have recoiled uncompromisingly from the principle , to do evil that good may come . Had this

    determination been inflexibly adhered to by the whole Dissenting body up to the present time , perhaps it would have placed their injuries in a more convincing light , and brought relief to an evil which their own consciences , by making real and positive , would have thus made liable to pity and removal See how the Roman Catholic cause

    has survived the outrageous bigotry of the last century , and quite run before the Dissenting cause in present favour , with the English people . To what can a larger portion of this difference be ascribed than to the pure and unmitigated suffering with which the former chose to sustain their

    wrongs , while no one -exactly knows where to find the amphibious and flexible consciences of the latter ? Gleanings . The Mad Prophet . — Half Unitarian and half Fatalist or Predestinarian .

    Review . Spry ' s Two Sermons . — The calmness of this Reviewer deserves much praise . He has triumphed with a gentle hand . ¦¦ Col . i . 15 , &c ., is one of the most ^ b ^ j —^ ^^^ ^ * - ^^ ^ v —]_ ~^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ v ^^^ —¦ ™ — " ^«^ - ¦ iir ^ v

    ^^ ^ wmidable passages for Unitarians . I am aware that the 19 th verse of this chapter ( " for it pleased the Father wat in him should all fulness dwell ) contains quite enough to qualify the exalted attributes , which appear in wie preceding passage to he ascribed to Jesus , and to approach so nearly t <> supreme divinity . Still , if a mode ** reading tfie chapter could be pointcaj . 'onk which might remove at one stroke even the apparent ascription of

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    craftiytf pcwe * i t ( y Jems , mrffitH i&M be . Mtdoptedi- tp better effect , than the iaterpjreStation to whichAJmtQ % 9 & %$ && aerally resort , and to which 4 i ^ i ^ 1 * pr ponents strongly object a& far » fefc ? b $ 4 and uiyatical ? It is with diffi 4 ^ ft ^

    that I propose the following , readijag * asking your correspondents at t |> e same time to state such objections as may occur ia their perusal of it . Fo ^ r the purpose of representing what I conceive to be the genuine meaning of

    Paul , I will here transcribe the wliele passage in question , verse by verse , and simply insert a parenthesis . Be it remembered how parenthetical the style of Paul actually was . ) 2 . Giving thanks unto the Fatiier , which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light : > 13 . Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness , and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son :

    14 . In whom we have redemption through his blood , even the forgiveness of sins : 15 . Who is the image of the invisible God , the first-born of every crea * ture :

    ( 16 . For by him were all things created , that are in heaven , and that are in earth , visible and invisible , whether they be thrones , or dominions , or principalities , or powers : all things were created by him , and for him : 17- And he is before all things , and by him all thing's consist . )

    18 . And Jie is the head of the body , the Church : who is the beginning , the first-born from the dead ; that in all things lie might have the pre-eiuinencc . VJ . For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell ;

    20 . And , having made peace through the blood of his cross , by him to reconcile all things unto himself ; by him , / say , whether they be things in earth , or things in heaven . What prevents the pronouns he and him in the Kith and 17 th verses from

    referring to the Father , or ** the invisible God "? The object of Paul in this passage is to trace the analogy between the offices and character of tbe Father , aadi those of the Son . Having to this eflfect in vei % 15 calk * l Jesus the imugG -- < tf * tii&t ) eiAy , . fUHtafea which he innunediately bUei > 0 hei * s byj

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    Critical Sijaaptis of tht Monthly Repositoryijfor jM 4 me ^\ S 9 S ^ 393

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/13/