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hhnj I found all his frame ( the ^ c ontrivance of a very strong headpiece ) was secretly and cunningly fitted to usher in a Socinian
Popery , or a mixture of Popery and lialf Socinianism . Bishop Usher had before occasionally spoken of him in my hearing as a Socinian , which caused me to hear him with
suspicion , bufe I heard none suspect him of popery , though I found that it was that which was the end of his design . This juggler hath this twenty years and more gone up and down thus secretly , and also thrust himself into places
of public debate ; as when the bishops and divines disputed before the king at the Isle of Wight , &c . And when ' we were lately offering our proposals for concord to the king , he thrust in among us ; till I was fain plainly to detect him before some of the
Lords , vyhich enraged him , and lie denied the words which in secret he had spokfen to me . And many men of parts and learning are perverted by him . "—Baxter ' s Life , folio . B . i . p . 2 . § 60 ,
Baxter was exemplarily pious and strictly honest , but extremely liable ( o . be imposed upon by his passions and prejudices : some notable instances of his credulity and intolerance might be selected from his Life and Works : but I
guppose the above account may 1 )<^ 'upon the whole relied on ; and the pjxrport of my writing is to ; enquire whether anv further
particulars be known of this strange : SQc | nian , Dr . Nic * Gibbon ! I h $ y $ ' inet withe no mention of him ih - my reading , which however Pft * > not been' g ^ eat in this way ; yttt so strong -Spaded , so active , and so obnoxious a man , the proselytist of men- of parts and
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learning , and an actor on the stage for twenty years , in such religious times , cannot have passed away , one would think , without leaving behind him some memorials of his character and opinions . I am , Sir , EPISCOPUS .
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Eclectic Review on the CL Socinians . " We sometimes indulge ourselves with copyiiag curious passages from the publications of our con temporaries . The following extract from the Eclectic Review
wiil , we venture to say , be the greatest curiosity in our present volume . Nothing is farther from our intention than to comment upon it ; an argument , we could have reasoned ou ; a criticism we
could have investigated ; remonstrance or persuasion we could have weighed and estimated ; even a specific accusation we could have met and discussed ;—but to unprovoked personal invective , scurrility and ribaldry , we can oppose only silence . Were we to suffer ourselves to
animadvert upon the passage , we should not , we fear , be able to suppress contempt for its baseness ajid abhorrence of its bigotry and rancour ; but these are sentiments which we wish not to entertain
ourselves , or to provoke in others : we feel pity only for the writer * and introduce him into our Repository for no other purpose than to exhibit a melancholy , butoiot uninstructive , examplex > f the force
of prejudice , kindling , into passion ^ upon one who , in . all cases ? npt relajtiqgto 4 C Socinians / ' « my probably . be'found wanting , neither in the politeness of a gentleman , nor in the dignity of as ^ plar .
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& * Eclectic Review on the Sflrinians . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/28/
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