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Effected to wonder , How a person , of his majesty ' piety and good sense , could so rootedly bcfieve the doctrine of absolute predestination . / " - The Royal Calihnst , ( so our author styles the
king ) , replied , " Did I not believe absolute predestination I could not believe a Provide / fee . For it would be most absurd to suppose , that a Being of infinite wisdom would act without a plan , for which plan , predestination is only another name . "
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No . XLV . Daniel IV hist on The learned professor Whiston had a brother , Daniel , in the church , who left behind him several hundred sermons that he had never preached !
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No . XLVI . Divine " Husbandry " . Bishop Hall ' s ingenuity and epigrammatic wit sometimes amuse
aiid please those who refuse to be instructed in his divinity . His writings abound with what may be properly called thoughts . His sentences are texts ; his figures
pictures . There is justness , as uell as smartness , in the following metaphorical description of the course of judicial Providence . u God mact with a very cTOod
held , he pulls up the weeds , and lets the corn grow ; if indifferent , lie lets the corn and weeds grow together ; if very ill , he gathers the few ears of corn , and burns "the weeds .
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No . XLV 1 I . Orthodox' Argument for the Authenticity of Scripture . TeiUilliiufs notable ' saying , Credo quia incredibile csty has
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been repeated by many of the champions of the church . One of them , a worthy disciple of the orthodox father , Abbadic-
vindicates the narration of Moses , on the ground of its , inconsistency , Moses , he says , is so inconsistent with himself , that he establishes the existence of one God , and then talks as if there * w ere
many . He introduces Jacob wrestling against God , and the mortalcomesoff victorious . Could he have advanced such an apparent absurdity , if the fact had not been true ? He advanced it
because he knew it to be true , though he did not uncj ^ rstand it % Such a reasoner as Abbadie , was well qualified for studying the Apocalypse , and defending the divinity of Christ . Abraham Booth endeavoured , but in vain , to make him a fawuritq with the English Calvinistic Dissenters .
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No . XLVIJI . Nursery for Ministers of State * Bishop Burnet who boasted of having been acquainted with five of our sovereigns , left a paper to be published after his death , entitled 4 C An humble representation to those who are to sit on
the throne . " In this paper , which contains much excellent advice ^ there is" the following curious projg ^ t for rearing ministers of state . < c A Prince , who would be well served , ought to seek out among his subjects the best and most capable of the youth ,
and see to . their good education , both at home and abroad ; he should send them to travel , and order his ministers abroad to keep such For some time about them , and to send them from court to court , to learn their language , and observe their tempers : if but twelve such were constantly kept on an allowance of ajci .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/25/
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