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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Introductory Sketch of the early history of Unitarianism in England. (search)
o personal controversy, in which an open avowal of such opinions would almost inevitably have involved him,—and, perhaps, a not unreasonable apprehension of unpleasant consequences from the same parties who in his own time expelled his successor Whiston from the mathematical chair at Cambridge. But the manner in which he has stated the evidence for the true reading, in his very valuable treatise entitled An historical Account of two remarkable Corruptions in the New Testament, 1 John v. 7, and the basis of an argument not less inconclusive than it was illiberal and unjust. The writers of these anonymous tracts approached most nearly to the system of Socinus; but in the succeeding age, the learning and high reputation of Clarke and Whiston in the Church of England, and of Emlyn and Peirce among the Dissenters, led the greater part of those who quitted the standard of orthodoxy to embrace the Arian hypothesis. This accordingly appears to have been the system generally adopted by m
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Thomas Emlyn (search)
Spirit or Logos by whose instrumentality God created the material world. He therefore espoused what has since been called the High Arian hypothesis, in which he continued during the rest of his life. In these sentiments he agreed nearly with Whiston, Clarke, Peirce, and many other eminent divines of that and the immediately succeeding age, whose celebrity for a long period gave the Arian scheme the preference over that of Socinus. When James II. was driven back to France, and affairs ining were, however, estimated at their due value by some of those who were most competent to appreciate them; and he was admitted to the intimate friendship of several persons of high distinction and eminence, particularly Dr. Samuel Clarke and Mr. Whiston; who nearly agreed with him in religious opinions, and the latter of whom had suffered for his principles, though not to the same extent. In 1726, on the death of the excellent Mr. James Peirce, of Exeter, it was proposed to invite Mr. Emlyn
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, James Peirce (search)
ily turned his thoughts to it. He was in this state of mind when the outcry began to be raised about his former friend Mr. Whiston, on account of his having embraced Arian sentiments. He wrote him a friendly expostulation Mr. Whiston has inserteMr. Whiston has inserted the letter here referred to, in his own memoirs; and it must be confessed that it contains some strong expressions which may be thought to indicate a much nearer approach to high Trinitarian sentiments than the report given by the author himself o them the important but hitherto unsuspected transition which they have undergone. on the subject, in answer to which Mr. Whiston referred him to Novatian, whose opinions certainly savour strongly of Arianism, as most nearly agreeing with his viewsions, as they called them, were altogether unknown at Exeter; but this is denied by Mr. Peirce. The writings of Clarke, Whiston, and others, who differ from the common opinion, had been read there before his coming among them; and some few of the p