Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-11-29
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DR.. Morrison, Eiitor Of the Er1ageicai /
Magazine, respecting tie Conpncnttry oj
Professor Stuart, or the EMs'i; to The |
RoWdHs.
Iol vcntureI, you say, when former
edition of Mr.. Stuart's Commentary Oh the
t, ,'istle to the Ro nuns male its appearance,
to com mend it very earn"S y TO the q. c1-
tion of theological stu lents.' Yes; ani
lctme rainind YOU OF som. OF those 'grca'
swelling wor Is By which You intro ll2cd
him to The public.-'1IiS love of tru his
fearlessncsS Of all consequences in the as
sertion of it, his freedom from all dogma
tsm and vanity. his patience IN putIag ior;h
the amount of labour necessary towards
reaching difficult conclusion, his perfect
simplicity of hear, are quail les which none
can overlook in pcrusng his admirabic W.
tings.' !Assurcliy you. Sir, canno: say with
Paul, neither at any time used we At;crng
words His lore Of truh. Did vou not
shudder when you wrote this? HIS free
dom from all canity--his feet sim.9Iicityo Of
heart. lfthis be so, no marvel, if cons;io,lS
ofthoSe qullfies Which YOU so unrcscrveJiy
ascribc to him, Mr.. Stuart canno. for a
moment conceive that the personal expert
ence of the apostle Paul is described in he
seventh chapter oihe Epistle % the Romans,
nor is it in the least surprising that he
should explain the sixth chapter dead 10
sn,' to mean to 'renounce sin to become
as it were inscnsible to lis eXcllng Po"cr
OF influence (as dead person is in capa-
bic of sensbity.) And as it is impossi-
bic to overlook the characteristic features
ofMr. u1rt's mind in his admirable uri-
hags, it is not to be wondered at that You
veu'ured TO commend them rery earnestly;
although now, indeed, YOU say you see
<much in them, in the form Of implication
and inference, calcula.ed to unset;lc all the
ancient landmarks on the subject of the
innate dcpravity OF human nature You
also say, After all that Mr.. Stuart has ad.
vanced in the present edition to support lis
theory, you 'are not whit more reconciled
to its truth But why! Because, accord
ing 20 you, it is now stripped Of all disguisc.'
When you vcnured so earnestly ly TO recon-
mend his admirable writings, were you not
aware Of the evil they coma ned, although
possibly not so fully as now when you have
got them stripped Of ali disguise! Sir,
mIjntain, that such paragraph Us | have
qloted above from your review, it will not
be easy to match. Moreover, as it has sell
dom been exemp!ilicd,taal any one ac ing as !
YOU have done III this matter, has, without |
the smalles; confession of his gull, volunia- .
10, ~, 80
who probably helped him TO see through the
disguise" under which fundamental doc
trne of Christianity is undermined and over
thrown. Can you be ignorant that very
ample acknowled cement 70 the Chris:ian
public is due by you, ofyour aid in contrib
uting TO disseminate the poison contained in
Mr.. Stuar;'s writings!
The Apostle Paul warned Christians
against men who from among themselves
arose speaking perverse things to draw away
disciples afer them, anil instead Of COM
plimenting false teachers in his day, as you
do Mr.. Stuart, denounced an angel from
heaven Oh the supposiion of his preaching
another Gospel. And c7cn now, when Your
eyes are opened to the dele.eriouS character
ofMr. S;uart's wr.tings.and when compelled {
to admit that, stripped of all disguise,' his
theory is, that there is no sin in the world
bu, actual sin, how inadequate is the tes,i-
mony ouhave borne agains; them! Yet
can anything be more dangerous than her.
esy under disguise ? And can that system
be called Christianity which denies original
sin! Was il not your duty, then, to lift up
your voice like a trumpet, to cry aloud and {
spare not; 10 do all in your power to testify
repentance for your most unmcrlted pane
gyrics OIL this opposer Of the truth, and on
his admirable wriiings,' which, when strip
ped of all disgNs", coss.Nblf his frIghttuI her.
estes and awful con radictons of the tru:n oi
God Is tina! truth to be trihed with, and i
suffered to be- traalpled on in this manner! :
For he part, Sir, you have acted, you ought
10 humble yourself in the dust. If my style !
be not applicable to Mr.. S;uar;, is yours ap-
plicable You had better have looked to (
your own style before you came forward :
to censurc mine. You should have remem-
bered the beam in your own eye.
Sir, it is uncandid and unfair to attempt,
as you have done by an indirect, unsubstan-
tiated, and underlined charge, to impress the
Christian public with the opinion that in
condemning the errors of Mr.. Stuart, |
have employed style of censure that is not
applicable to him. My style ofcensure would
be applicable to all the angels Of heaven,
were they to teach the hercsies Of Moses
Stuart. And with all your compliment ary
phraseology, what do you virtually say OF
him? DO you not charge his doctrine,
when stripped Of all disguise, as heretical i
and virtually deny him sound understand
inr when Won admit that he teaches tunda.