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No. CLXXVI. Angel of the Seven Churches....
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No. Clxxv. A Witty Courtier S Reproof To...
ing ; to which Killigrew bluntly answered , 4 The country I seek , may it « please your Majesty , is Hell . AjmJ what do you do tjb-gre ? ' replies the king . 4 To bring up Oliver Cromwell from thence / returned the wag , ' to take care of the English affairs , for his successor takes none . " Cibber ' s Lives , ii . 12 .
360 Gleaning*.
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No. Clxxvi. Angel Of The Seven Churches....
No . CLXXVI . Angel of the Seven Churches . Tie author of " The Critical History of England / ' 1726 , quotes Bishop Burnet against Pluralities ,
as " a corruption of so crying and scandalous a nature , that when , ever it is practised it is sufficient to possess the people against the church that is guilty of it / ' The critical historian adds , " Yet what is more common than to have
incumbents hold two or three benefices at a time ? Nay , I have beard of one , and that a very ordinary one too , who held so many as to procure him the ironical title of the Angel of the Seven ChurckcsJ
No.Clxxvii. Animal Life* A Platonic Chri...
No . CLXXVII . Animal Life * A Platonic Christian Diving H , More , has the following strange description ( Discourses , 1 § 92 , pp . 187 , 188 , ) of the last of the
three natures in man , — 44 That life which resides in the body , and is but a shadow of the spul s the darkened caVe of evil delusions , falsehood and deceit ;
a den of a |) serpentine natures , false spectrums , magical allure * ment £ > thtck mists , benumbing vapours , execrable whispering ^ , vain terrour , fal § e delight , be .
No.Clxxvii. Animal Life* A Platonic Chri...
witching apparitions , fait flitting phantasms , dec iv ^ ble $ ii gge $ tft > rt & , besottingattractions . Herd ' s that damned cell , where those tfire ©
grand impostors and conspirators against the soul , p lot their fraudulent mischiefs ; the flesh , the world , the devil : or rather , here is a world of devils in this life of
the flesh , where the prince of darkness rules : —A world whose bottom is the depth of unfaithfulness , its foundation . is laid ia hell ; a hell whose fense is pitchy clouds and ihick darkness ; whos ^
treasure is corruption ; inhabitants vanity and shadowes ; wisdom , senselessness ; prudence , precipu tancy ; simplicity of heart , inextricable labyrinths of deceit and hypocrisie ; constancy or
steadiness , a vertiginous circuit of glowing phrensie and gross niadness .- ^ - He that looks down , indafigeis his sigfet , indangers being carrj ^ d away with this rapid course arid
hurrying flux of tumultuous motions : it ' s enough to turn his brain , to change his understandings to bereave him of his right senses . "
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h , . ... No . CLXXVIIk > A French Trusler * Our Catholic neigh hours had a grand caiterer and dry niirsfc of the Church long before nurse
Trusler undertook to rear the English Prottsfant Clergy . D Aleinbert gives the following account in his Eulogy of Flechier * ( Aikin ^ s Trans , ii * 2 . ) : ¦
** Young Ekcblei : was brought tip by his uncle , father Hercules Atidifret , superior general of the Christian doctrine . The eloquence of this doctrinary , ttfan greatly renowned and singularly fertile ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/40/
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