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a determination to . abide by hi& corrections . But had you done thi > > in rtgirti to the two articles , at least Dftv-re me , I can confidently tell you that not many lines \ VouId have remained uu . cancelled .
I . am , Rev . Sir , Your obedient and humble servant , Joseph BERiNGfo ^ . Auckland , near Farringdon , Berks , Dec . 11 , 1811 ;
Let me add . —We ask you not to approve our doctrines . Reject tl nil , refute , them , as you can : state them only fairly . Do as you would be done by . 1 often suspect that you feel your
Reformation cannot be supported , but by misrepresenting the tenets of the church from which you withdrew : otherwise , why will you thus persevere ? -I will send you a summary < 4 nur principles /*
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LETTER II . To the Rev * J . Evans , Rev . Sir , Inclosed is the Summary I mentioned , which I recommend to you r perusal .
I have now gone through your Sketch , for which on one account , you have my sincere thanks . Surely no work was ever better calculated to strengthen the Catholic in hjs belief of the necessity * or a guiae in religion . In this view , , I shall recommend it ' to
their perusal . But how any Protestant , when he seriously contemplates this melancholy series of discordant opinions car * approve the principle of private judgment , and not . rather adopt universal scepticism , is to me , I own , incomprehensible . Were I not a Catholic , nothing short of this , or
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even of Deism , could afford me any resting-place . Must th « thoughtful man , left to himself , go on from Luther to Calvin , from Calvin to Muncer or Arminius , from these to George Fox , or Swedenborg , or Ann Lee , or Joanna Southcott , &c &c «
* And find no rest——in wandering mazes lost * — and still be told that Christ came into the world to be to him the wa y ^ the truth and the life $ and that he who follows him tcalketh not in darkness ? v .
* We deprive the laity , ^ you say . p . 289 * ' 4 of the scripture , by restraining its use . ' Yor use read abuse ^ and the word will be correct . On points bf ' faith , we would have the scriptures to be explained . a 8 the church , from the
beginning , has explained them . Had ibis rule been followed , your Sketch of Christian DeriominqHons would have been comprised within a : fe % v 'pages * Oji points ^ nyi of
faithy each one is left to his liberty . This has given , - and does give , ris « i to that variety of opinions , which you are anxious to confound with variation in essential
belief . ' . This latter variation , I admit , has at all times too much . * disturbed the tranquillity of the Catholic church / feut here ties the difference . With us , it has ever arisen from tla& violation of
our principle of authority ; with you , it is the direct and invited consequence of your principle of private judgment * But we * deny / you add , * the sufficiency of scripture . * Let me ask you : What was the rule * of belief followed by the early Christian churches , before the written word was sufficiently established and extended , to become u guide i Was it not the
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140 Correspondence betweenthe Rev . J * Qcringt&nandtiieRev . J * Evans ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/4/
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