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ofoepebtattce * designed to relieve some u aiitfifcty"In Ki $ Grace ' s ntind : the lfe $ ; ter is " both philosophical and piotfs : on ; $ o ^ cqiiirnonL , jand at the same time so diifre ^ Ifc ^ a , subject , few men have written better .
Thebis&t » p published another Charge in I 8 fy 2 > taK promote the consideration ofKone < of the reforms in the ch u rch , which fee had proposed twenty years before * the enforcement of clerical residences on * which he had corresponded with , -Mr .. 'Pitt and Lord Grenville , in
; the y £ ari 1800 r an d * on which also he «*| bmitted his opinion by letter to the JLord Chancellor , Eldcfn , in the year 1803 . No attention , he says , ( p . 37 O *) waa ^ pfiid Jo this l ast tetter , and he interfered < ao further in the business .
He neither thought so highly , he proceeds ^ ^ f-the Chancellor ' s talents on any silbject * norso meanly of his own , ob the subject of ecclesiastical reform , as to judge that it became him to
overlook the discourtesy of not answering a lfctter . The Clergy Non-residence &t H * then in agitation , was , he corrdudesT passed into an act , winch has rather ineteaHed than lessened the evil . \ TPo be concluded in , &ur rietot . ~\ *
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a great number of his associates into the path ot free in q ^ iify . In * -ev ^ ry base but one , thfc present publication must produce important consequents in the Methodist body : the case which we except is * we admit , very unlikely , bat it is possible j it is that of Dr .
Adam CJtai ? ke ' writing a ** yea and nay '' defence , partly vindicating &bd partly retracting his heresy , and skilfully covering the controversy with a Veil of orthodox phraseology , rthe everjt will soon enable the reader to decide upoo the justness of our speculations , ;
Dr . Adam Clarke is charged by bis accuser with two outward signs of heretical pravity ; The first is his denying € * the etertial Sonship of Christ , " in some of the notes in his
Ccoiltttetttary on the New Testament . These ( $ ays . Mr . Watson , p . 3 ) , have been " the subject of much and serious discussion j" ** they have , " he adds , " made some converts ; " and he refers
to a written controversy concerning them , from which he looks for «« considerable mischief !" The following passage from Dr . Adam Clarke ' s notes , will explain both the substance and the mode of
his alleged heresy \ it will be Seen frdrn the passage that the good Doctor thought that he was removing a difficulty from the doctrine of the Deity Of Christ : " If Christ be the Son of God as to
his divine nature , then he cannot be eternal ; for Son implies a Father \ and Father implies in reference to Son , preceding in time > if not in nature too . Father and Son imply the idea of generation ; and generation implies a time in which it was effected , and time also antecedent tt > such generation . If Christ b £ the Son of God as to his
divine nature , then the Father is of necessity prior , consequently superior to him . Again , if this divine nature were begotten of the Father , then it must be in tiine ; i . e . thefe was a period in which it did not exist , and a period when it began to exist . This
destroys the eternity of our blessed Lord , and robs him at once of his Godhead . To say that he was begotten from all eternity , is , in my opinion , absurd , and the phrase eternal Son , ia a positive contradiction . Eternity is that which htt « had nrj beginning , nor fttftud * in reference to Mrht . &i *
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$ 06 Revieiv . W ^ M&Mffi-ks &n th ? Eternal ISonehip ^ Christ
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Art . Ill * - ± - * Remarhs Pit the Eterndl Sonship of Christ ; and the use of Reason in matters of Revelation , sug * gested by several Passages in Dr . Adam Clarke ' s Commentary on the New Testament . In a Letter to a
Friend . By Richard Watson . 8 vo . pp . 02- Blanshard , City Road . . 1818 . MR . WATSON , as well as Dr . Adam Clarke , is an eminent
Methodist preacher ; and this pamphlet is published at head quarters , under the direction , of course ^ of the portion of the Wesleian hierarchy established to London . It is the official sounding
of the charge of heresy from the trumpet of the regiment , against the learned doctor , who is yet in honour in the Liverpool district , but can scarcely be expected to maintain his rank beyond another Conference , unless he recant his errors . If he should defend his
opinions with ability and spirit , he will not strengthen his own standing , but he may occasion a schism in the Connexion : though we do not think that the time is yet come , when a Methodist of even Dr . Adam Clarke ' s learning and talents , would be able to lead off
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/54/
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