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    truth , we were glad to ; bear the critic declare that the benefits of the Chris * tian dispensation are to be ascribed " altogether to the free grace , the infinite love of God , as their originating cause . * If , as the writer intimates , the opinion were generally held by the orthodox , the main question at issue between them and us on the doctrine of the Atonement would be

    set at feat * As the Critic does not hold the toted depravity of human nature , go can he see Some good even in Dr . Cbanning-. " Dr . Channing leaves us much of which our Socinians here would rob us utterly . He leaves us the whole volume of Scripture unimpaired and unimpeachecL He acknowledges their inspiration , and vindicates their

    truth , with no little eloquence and power of reasoning * He confesses that man is a sinful being , and though he strenuously denies the personality of the Holy Spirit , to the Holy Spirit , considered as a divine aid imparted to our souk , he attributes all moral excellence in man . " Again , " the sentiments of Dr . Channing , on more than one point of doctrine , are raised almost as far above the semi-infidel system of Ltndsey , Priestley , and Belsham , as , we are constrained to say , thay fall below the truths

    Now , here is ignorance or malice on the part of the writer , or culpable negligence on the part of Unitarians . However powerful the argument , however intense the feeling , however lofty the spirit with which Dr . Channing has set forth his views , we venture to say that he has advanced no one important doctrine in which Unitarians generally do not accord with , him . Does then the Critic believe what he asserts i If so , does bis ignorance arise from his or our negligence ? We do not hold Unitarians blameless on

    this point , and therefore we gladly hail the indications of a better practice by which our views will be exhibited , not so much on the points on which they impeach prevalent errors , as those on which they expound gospel truths * At the same time , enough has been done to enable the Critic to know that Unitarians take the Scriptures as their guide , teach the sinfulness of man , and ascribe all spiritual blessing to its sole author , the Father of our spir its , and the Author of every good and perfect gilt .

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    This , then , is the cell consecrated by tradition to the service of God . Around the walls of this cave hangs a sanctity akin to that which hallowed the fastnesses of Judea after the Saviour had been seen to issue from them . —* So think the dwellers below , who gaze with awe when the misty cur * tain of the morning is drawn up from its shadowy entrance : and if they come hither to see where their saint spread his heathy couch * or shed for

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    Sabbath Musirtfirg . 763

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    SABBATH MUSINGS .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 763, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/39/