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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 4 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 3 3 Browse Search
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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Shute, (search)
to have very little faith in the doctrines of religion, he yet took great care that his servants should attend regularly at church, his reply was, that he did this to prevent their robbing or murdering him. Townsend's Life, &c., p. XIX. In 1725, Lord Barrington published his Miscellanea Sacra, the work by which he is chiefly known as a theologian, and has acquired a reputation in this department of literature which is likely to endure. It exhibits the fruit of much learning and research exist; as, on the other hand, it may possibly revive on a change of circumstances, if any church of Jewish Christians should again be formed. In the Essay On the Dispensations of God to Mankind as revealed in the Scriptures, first published in 1725, it is the author's object to shew the single notion, as he expresses it, that runs through the whole, in order to make it appear that they are part of one general plan, and thus display the connexion of the several parts, and, in unity of reveale
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Samuel Chandler (search)
es were, doubtless, of a character better adapted to the conduct of a popular lecture. In the discharge of this duty he preached some sermons on the confirmation which miracles give to the divine mission of Christ and the truth of his religion; and vindicated the argument against the objections advanced by Collins in his Discourse on the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion. These sermons he afterwards enlarged and threw into the form of a regular treatise, which was published in 1725, under the title of A Vindication of the Christian Religion, in two parts; first, a Discourse on the Nature and Use of Miracles; and, secondly, an Answer to a late Book entitled a Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons, &c. This is a work of very considerable merit and value, and deserves to be studied by those who wish to obtain a full understanding of the controversy between the Christian advocate and the unbeliever. Mr. Chandler's view of the nature and use of miracles, as stated in the f