INDEX. AMERICAN Christian Examiner, 87 Adoration of God, 101 Atonement, 227, 231 Baillie, Joanna, 16 Baptism, 87, 156 of Jesus, 90 Bowring, 102, 185 Barbauld, 127 Baptist Assembly, 146 Buckland's (Mr.) Address, 237 Critical Notices, 18, 89, 115, 190, 231 Christian Responsibility, 43, 49, 121 Cole, Baxter, 94 Cromwell, Rev. T., Settlement of, 112 Church of England, 234 Christian Unity, 251 Divine Goodness, 97, 128, 170 Domestic Mission Society, 182 Education in Egypt, 47 Editor, 148 English Church, 175, 202, 221, 245 Presbyterian Association, 188 Established Worship, 229 Field, Mr., 1, 35 Future Punishment, 39 France, Liberality in, 47 Fallen Angels, 52 G. D., 18 General Baptist Fund, 264 Hewley, Lady, character of, 22 before the Lords, 145, 189 Immersion, Authorities in favour of, 56 Kirby, Character, of, 25 Kent, General Baptist Association, 149 Lindsey, 13 London, Bishop of, 47 Liverpool Unitarian Controversy, 58, 73, 102, 138, 163, 193 Millar, 13 Marriage, 96, 156 Means, Rev. J. C., 115, 157, 227 Ministry to the Poor, 152, 190, 211, 237 Newton's (Sir Isaac) MSS., 46 Owen, Rev. Mr., Verses to, 31 Rev. Thomas Sadler, 266 Poland, a Scene from, 174 Questions proposed by the Chancellor in the Lady Hewley Religious World, present State of, 1, 35 Review, 115, 234 Scottish Judge, a Decision of, 55 Sunday School Association, 154 Smith, Sir J. E., 169, 220 Treacher, 31 Tyranny of Church Courts, 215 Unitarian Christian's Creed, 31 Association, British and Foreign, 183 Wood, Rev. S., 18 Wardlaw, Dr., 133 Wallace, Rev. R., 231 THE UNITARIAN BAPTIST ADVOCATE. "For effecting a recovery and re-establishment of the long-lost truth." SIR ISAAC NEWTON. "One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of all." PAUL. No. XIII.] JANUARY, 1838. [VOL. II., N. S. ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S THEOLOGICAL OPINIONS. THOUGH we are as little disposed as any persons can be to take our opinions upon the credit of others, and are quite aware that a doctrine professing to be the doctrine of scripture must stand or fall by its own evidence, and cannot be alone supported by human authorities, however high, yet we think it perfectly tair, in the present state of religious parties, and especially considering the odium under which the advocates for the same opinion still lie, to produce the remarkable attestation which Sir Isaac Newton's judgment gives in favour of the Unitarian form of the Christian religion. In a wider sense than the words were used by Dr. Chalmers, we venture to subjoin, "We see in the theology of Newton, the very spirit and principle which gave all its stability and all its sureness to the philosophy of Newton." We intend, in this and a succeeding article or two, to bring together such facts and references relating to this interesting subject as are accessible to the public, though scattered up and down in a variety of works. We shall make use, in the first instance, of a letter on this subject, printed many years ago, addressed to the Rev. Dr. Chalmers, then at Glasgow, now Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh; having full authority from the author to reprint the same, and being satisfied that the subject has lost none of its interest, and that the evidence there adduced is equally pertinent and forcible, when employed by Unitarians as an argumentum ad homines, in the present day. ED. A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Chalmers: to which is subjoined a Statement of the Evidence for Sir Isaac Newton's Unitarianism. By Benjamin Mardon, Minister of the Unitarian Church, Glasgow, 1818. "No man had searched the Scriptures more than Sir Isaac Newton, or understood them better; and if men will set up names for authorities in this matter, we have the greatest name on our side." BARON. Reverend Sir, I HAVE just read, in the Appendix to your Sermon occasioned by the lamented Death of the late Princess Charlotte, the following passage, by which my astonishment is greatly excited: "We can never so forget the way in which many of the orthodox congregations of England have relapsed into Unitarianism, nor be so blind to the degree in which the infection of Arianism has spread itself over the north of Ireland, as to admit it as an infallible position, that popular patronage is the best way of raising a barrier against error of doctrine among the ministers of religion." The cause of my astonishment, Sir, is, not that the truth has been plainly told, for nothing can be more notorious than the prevalence of Unitarianism in the districts which you point out, and in others, probably, which may not have yet come under your observation; but because the Preface to your Astronomical Discourses, in which you were attempting to remove the heretical impression which your unqualified praise of Sir Isaac Newton's theology might leave upon the minds of your numerous readers, contains an assertion, that the "sect or system," the leading doctrine of which that profound philosopher embraced, "has now nearly dwindled away from public ob servation." It has been a matter of dispute, Sir, whether in this passage you refer to the believers in the proper humanity or the believers in the pre-existence of Christ. Not that there can be any reasonable dispute about the class of Christians to whom Sir Isaac Newton by his opinions properly belonged; but as it is less clear whether Dr. Chalmers' information be correct or incorrect. If you had the Arians in your view, though you would be mistaken as to |