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Trfpityyi andj would haye jt W ] r could not / be denominated believers tin reveUiion- ' which I returned ' upon him as ah instance of great ^ ghjorarice ; since many . JEngiish Protestants ! of entinence * advocates for the religion of Christ , have in their writi ngs , absolutely dis * owned tKe absurdity . Th ^ is strictlytrue as a narrative of fact ; and a metboH of perverting Protestants which I doubt * not is very common . " {
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No . XXII . Sudden Death .
u From sudden death" says the Litany used in the English church , tc Good Lord deliver us ! " Yet some eminent men have wished to
die suddenly . This was the cas £ with Dr . Taylor of Norwich , and Mr . Robinson pf Cambridge , who had both been known to express a desire that their death might he sudden , and who were both found dead in their beds , when there was no apprehension of immediate danger .
Perhaps sudden death came to be regarded as « n evil in the church from the circumstance of its cutting off the dying sinner from tine possibility of benefit from the rites of the eucharist , extreme unction and absolution . The ghost in Hamlet thus bemoans its con * .
dition : < c Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin , " Unhousel'd , disappointed , unanel'd ; " No reckoning made , but sent to my accdunt
" With all my imperfections on my head-•* O , horrible ! O , hoiriblel most hor-. . rible !" Act . i . Scene v ^ L & 60 — -864 . , Thrs is Sceevens's reading , who says— " Unh < m 9 tl * d is without having received the sacrament . . Ufianel d is without extreme unction *"
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No . XXHL ' Perfection of the Kor art .
Whilst JBormpart ^ * « £ s ' iti Egypt ^ in the year ' 17 ^^ the Shiek Sadat of Caito gave ' hint ^ Cfhriex ,
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101 : ¦— - , . -. i-. v ^ . - " The advantage | £ v < m to ppperjr by the Trinitaiiah dp iriloh , all may know who have . ever conversed ^ With a Romish , priest . What I have said I know to he a truth from my own experience ; for aboijt the year 17 ^ 7 , as exactly as I-can rememberJ a popish seducer , a gentleman of genteel appearance and behaviour , made an' attempt to pervert rne to the catholic faith , as he was pleased to call it .- —We had two interviews , and
the conversation turned on several of the distinguishing tenets of that superstition . When we came in the second conference , to debate on the subject of transubjtantiation , thc gentleman , after saying the most favourabie things he could be able to say of that strange opinion ; asked me what were my objections ? I told him , I had principally two , ' transubstantiation ivas a contradiction to my
rea-9 on + and to the testimony of all my senses * He smiled and said , was there all my strength ?—I told him if I iva « , baifl e ^ there , he might be 6 ure of a convert —> Then replies he , it you are ingenuous and sincere , I am assured o ( you . And I do now confidently affirm ^ tfeat a fundamental doctrine which you hold > even as a protestant , is equally contradictory 4 o reason and sense . Could he
convince me of any such tenet * I again said , ^ he might be -assured , I was no longer a Protestant * With an air of the utmost confidence he opened , ———The doctrine of the cver-hUssed Tiinity ^ sir , is altogether as repugnant to reason and to all your senses , as transubstantiation can
possibly & » . ~_ , — -No . sooner did I &hew him , he' had widely missed his mark , and ^ greatly mistaken , * t ; he nature of my creed , but he affected to be beyond measure astonished ! and although he had before made me some advantageous ofTere , if I would embrace popery ; he now professed t © despair of making any good impression upon nie . , At parting However , he was bo courteous ; as' to
assure me , "he would ptfay * for me .- — I should j * ayp mentioned , that he pre
tended npt to ( know , there were , awy Protestants in England , so extremely heretical , as to denr the doctrine of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/31/
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