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ver the author . Its coincidence with the sentiments of the Editor induced him to request a copy of the individual among whose papers it was found , and he trusts it will not be less pleasing to many of his readers .
** The words , in the general , are placed in brackets , being an addition which he has ventured to insert ; as he does not conceive by the tenure [ tenor ] of the whole piece , that the author intended so unqualified a
restriction of the several appellations as his words may otherwise possibly impiy- " To enable your readers to judge of this singular piece of conjectural criticism , I will subjoin the paragraph to which it relates , with the intended
amendment , viz . ** The different appellations of Father , Son , and Holy Spirit are , nevertheless , not to be used indifferently or indiscriminately
one for another , because [ in the general ] they are properly and consistently used onl y * as this one Supreme , Self-existing Essence is considered in different points of view . "
I have put the above word only in italics , as Wm . Alexander seems to have overlooked its import , and because the passage is absolutely incompatible with the construction he would put upon it . His criticism reminds me of the groundless and fanciful
notion of a worthy man , and a reputedly orthodox divine , who being closely pressed with scriptural proofs , that prayer should only be offered to God the Father , admitted that in the generql , such was the duty , and had always been the practice of Christians ; but nevertheless contended for the
propriety of sometimes addressing prayer to Christ in cases of peculiar emergency ! The above and every other modification of the Sabellian hypothesis , that I have seen , asserts that there is " but one true God , " as all Christians
agree , and also that . this Supreme Beiag does not consist , as all Trinitarians affirm , of" three distinct persons , " and is so far sound and scriptural . As it is also , in representing this one true God , as the «' first Cause
of all things , from whence the whole universe derives its origin and existence , " the proper Author of all temporal and spiritual blessings . When , however , it declares that m different appellations of Father ,
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Son , and Holy Spirit , " are essentially and identically one and the same , each signifying the true God , my reverence for the authentic records of the Christian Revelation induces me to with ^ hold my assent . I cannot find that they contain any such doctrine .
And although the author of thi * Creed , like other Sabellians , uses such very incorrect language , it is obvious he felt the necessity of distinguishing those " different appellations" from each other , and that he exclusively ascribed the creation and existence of all things both animate and inanimate " to God the Father . "
The first part of this Creed is purely Sabellian . If the second part con ^ cerning the Son is pure Quakerism , N . C . ' s correct observation that not a word is used under this head " that can be supposed to have the remotest reference to the ^ history , doctrine , death or resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ , ' * is well worthy the serious attention of its members , and especially of Wm . Alexander , the publisher and patron of this Creed . Recommending it to their notice , I am , sincerely yours , THOMAS FOSTER .
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Newington Green , JFeb . 6 , 1816 . Sir , YOUR last number ( p . 16 , ) contain 9 animadversions on a Sermon of mine , to which I deem some reply necessary . Such animadversions may not be unprecedented , but they are
rather unusual , and I conceive hardly justifiable . Is it not enough that authors be subjected to the judgme / its and decisions of anonymous reviewer * without the privilege of appeal or reply ? Must they also be exposed to the attacks of anonymous letter-writers ?
There are several circumstance * connected with the indictment in question not very creditable to him who drew it up . He is an officious accuser . For the same reason that he writes reprehensively of me or of my publications a thousand others might do so ; but I do not suppose that he has an ex-officio commission
to put himself forward as accuser-general . He says that ** there , can be but one opinion" respecting my Serm © n j but for that very reason the publishing of his opinion was uncalled far and unnecessary . I would
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Mr . Gilchrist in Reply to A . A , 8 &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/25/
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