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assent and consent to all and every one of the articles . Edifying picture of peace and unity ! A
multitude of Christians , all of the same mind , and speaking the same thing / Not so exactly * The clergy have not been content with subscribing , but have vindicated their subscription ; and from themselves it appears that the articles are subscribed by them in no less than fourteen different
senses . I . In the sense of the impostrs . II . In the sense of the comp ilers . III . In their strict , obvious and literal meaning .
IV . In any sense which the words will bear , consistently with the subscribers * interpretation of scripture . V . As articles of peace . VI . As true in general , and sufficiently so for their intention ^ though not true in every particular proposition .
II 1 . As far as they are agreeable to the word of God . VIII . As far as they are fundamental articles of faith , necessary to salvation . IX . On the authority of thers .
X . In any sense which approved doctors of the church have affixed to them . XI . As mere forms of admission into an office . XII . In Palcy ' s sense , as originally intended to exclude only three classes of men from the
church , viz . Papists , Puritans and Anabaptists . XIII . In the sense of the members of the church , though different from that . expressed in tk % articles , 4 «*
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No . XXX . Countries compared . Germany , says M . Montes - quieu , who was a great traveller as well as a multifarious writer , is only fit to travel in Italy to reside in , England to think in * and France to live in .
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No . XXXI . Profitable Patients , Boerhaave always called the poor his best patients , for God , said he , is their pay-mat > ter .
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No . XXXII . Ci Strange * Providences Jy or Puritan Miracles *
How easily we believe what we wish , what accredits our opinions and strengthens our party ! Richard Baxter was an honest man and yet lie believed as well as
recorded the following stories . The family name of the parties to the latter story would suggest a suspicion that Baxter was gulled and imposed upon , by what in modern days would be called a hoax . *« When prince Rupert put the inhabitants of Bolcon , in Lancashire , to the
Sword , . ( men , "women and children ,, ) an infant escaped alive , and wa 9 found lying by her father and mother , who were slam in the streets ; aa qI $ woxnap
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that it is well known to those Who receive their subscriptions , that they know nothing nbout the articles or do not believe them and that therefore they deceive no ** body . ¦>>
XIV . In no sense i or as non ~ - sense i in which sense the majority perhaps subscribe ^ alledging
The subject is two serious for raillery . Let us drop it , expressing abhorrence oipoiiticbl churchmen , and sincere pity for such of the clergy as are enquiring , honorable and conscientious .
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0 ltanings . 307
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/31/
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