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    ike Quarterly Review will gradually come round , making constantly newer concessions in favour of Unitarianis m until , like the Monthly and Critical Reviews of the last century , it will be a decided advocate of our cause . There is , in the exclusive prosecution of

    literature , such a continued and implicit reference to pure reason , and such a reverence for the true signification of language , that its votaries find themselves placed down on the ground of Unitarianism , before they are aware On Milton ' s New Work . The writer ' s enthusiasm here is as just as

    it is warm . A Long-Lost Truth , No , II . One is somewhat startled and repulsed by the metaphysical expressions which this writer sees proper to adopt in laying down his fundamental views . " All essence is of God , " " All things existed in his eternal idea . &c . This

    is going too far back for principles . The present generation have an abhorrence , and rightly too , I tliink , of your a priori reasoning * . Mr . Roach ' s gloss on the phrase " God is love , " extracted here , seems

    to me as unauthorized as it is declamatory . I admire much more the quotation from Wisheart on the next page . It is at once beautiful , ingenious and just .

    But what a superior and fascinating writer comes before us in the present correspondent ! In the flow of his limpid style , in his solemn and impassioned conviction of the truth of bis

    favourite doctrine , ia the copiousness and felicity of his rare quotations , and ia other distinguished fine qualities , do we not discern the marks of the " Unitarian , " whose correspondent

    with the Calvinist adorned your pages last year ? Whatever may be the strength or the weakness of his arguments , there can be but one opinion as to his sincerity , fidelity and skill

    in the management of them to the best advantage . How hard is his task to lessen the odium and the apprehension of the popular mind with respect to Univeraalisin ! Yet he , if auy

    writer , is calculated to effect that purpose . Thus far , however , he appears only as the positive advocate ot his i-ause . 1 shall wait impatiently to see how he will answer some of the uioat common and formidable obj ection against it , and particularly how be would explain the various texts o *

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    Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for December , 1825 . BRITISH AND FOREIGN ASSOCIATION . Esto perpetual Mr . Emlyrts Letter to Mr . Manning . The writer complains that the ascription by " Socinians" of a figurative

    sense to certain passages of Scripture is " too forced , " But if the antagonist interpretation lead us to conclusions which to the reflecting mind are vastly more forced , what have we to do but submissively to take our choice , and humbly yield up our understandings to the most reasonable side ?

    He finds it difficult to interpret Col . i . 16 of the new creation . If ever context defended any interpretation , the context here most assuredly intimates that the splendid and god-li /< e powers ascribed to Christ , bad reference only to his relations with the church .

    Some vi Mr . Manning ' s notes are enough to rack one ' s powers of comprehension . Mundar of the Quarterly Review * My opinion is , that notwithstanding its occasional malignancy at present ,

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    714 Critical Synopsisk > f th * Monthly Repository for December , 1 S 25 .

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    in point of ^ octdae fchanj the general declaration adapted with respect to Protestant Dissenting Ministers by the statute 19 th Geo . III . Ch . xliv * . and

    again enacted for them by the statute 52 nd Geo . III . Ch . civ ., which is in substance , " that they are Christians and Protestants , believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments , as

    commonly received among Protestant Churches , to contain the revealed will of God , and receive the same as the rule of their faith and practice . ' Whether such an extension of the

    church ' s pale be all that true religious liberty requires , is a question which it is not within the scope of this paper to discuss : it might be no inconsiderable progress . —" H&c prodire terms , si non datur-ultr& . "—But for the

    present purpose it is sufficient to remark , that these limits would cornptehend Protestant Dissenters of every variety in respect to theological opinions ; and supposing , as there seems reason to suppose , the limits to be such as the writer on whom we are

    commenting * would have approved , we shall be fully justified in concluding that he would have admitted even the " Socinians" into both Church and State . E . B . K .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 714, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/14/