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was to extend the empire of Truth and diffuse ihe benign influence of Christian charity ¦ - * - Tros Tyrinsque Mini nullo discrimine agetur .
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REMARKS . As the writer ol the Letters has given me 4 * full p «* : mission to publish , them in any £ * rrn 1 plea ^ o , " they are placid in this Appendix to a Sermon , in which a single . extract is inadt the subject of animadversion The Editor of the
Monthly Repository is welcome to transfer theni ^ with my reply , iiiifeo his work—— where no doubt , an ample vindication will be made of Protestantism and oi the Reform
mat ion in general . The introductory remarks * are merely by way of se / f-dejknee-r-a . nd I shall add a few words respecting the Greek church , which I am also accused
of having grossly , misrepresen-te *! . The following respectable authorities will shew that my account , in the Sketch , of that Church , is pretty correct : —
Dr . Charles Coote , in his History of thv Eighteenth Ci murysubjoined to the last edition of Mobheirn—speaking of the Greek church . says— ' * Trans ubstantu atinn is not a decided doctrine in
this church . It is apparently maintained in . one , of the . public contusions of faith , but the words used in the service itstlf seem mer . ejy to imply , that the , supposed change is an act of the mind , not
a . phi / sical conversion of the sacramerjtul elements into the . body and blood uf . ChrUtf . The ^ ross abs u rdity of su ^ ppo ^ iag it tobe aa actual change of substance does not appear 10 , have formed a part of the early creed , of the Greeks , bitt was in alt probability borrowed
* Kot inserted here , for who t of room , £ o
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from the wiJd fa ^ icies , or attfulin * ventions , of Romish priesis , thdt notorious corrupters of prinwri v ^ Christianity /*' The Rev . Mr . Coze , in his
Russian T ra vels , telb us that *** the Greek religion prohibits theu ^ e-of carved images ; but the pillars of then church , the walls andgfcilings , are painted - with representWtlo ^ is uf our-Saviour , the Virgin Mary , and different saints . " And Mn
Bru 4 : e speaking of the Abyssinian churches , says — ft * Their wa 4 te were almost covered with pictures of saints or other representations ; but nojiguresy embossed or in re * lievo ^ were exhibited ^ for -tliey considered the use of these as a species of idolatry !"
In a controversial pamphlet ^ written some years ago , Mr . Berington thus reluctantly acknow . ledges—that PretestanUm allows a greater rang £ of intellectual ?
fiv ^ dom than Pop rt } —a strifcing proof of liberality strtjggling ^ rth ' the prejudice of education . ** MAny things , 1 confers , in the CathoHc belief , wei gh rath or heavy oft jiijf mind , and 1 should" be glad t&
hrive&JreerJiet't \ i >' r * ng irt . l "Gail you wiNh f 6 r' a VeaH'er with better depositions than those I I read with a rapid but cl jse attention ,
?* very moment expecting ihat ^ somfe * happy discovery wHl hei hte '< ai li ^ berlty . Ala- ! ^ ir , -Ufbas hev £ r $ iet ha {> penedf 1 meet wkh asserti cilB ^ thrown out sbmetfaies Wirharfah *
i > f p \ aus 1 bit ft : y ^ -i &is M ictfytUtk alleged bill proving nothiftg , —fathers dragged torwards to contradict their own v ^ drd ^—* and re ' jfeoii decoyed from iJs prbpfer ^ urs iii b , to ^ lkcuss oiaiters yvfaich belong not to it . " . ' With indigrtatiofi I
throw tUe'bodft aside , fbr infeteiSiVi 6 F ¦ 'gB&iAttg-mihy I : ' discatti % « t ¦ # - .
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14 iZ Correspondence between the Rev * J . Berington and the Ret > jJ < Ev&ns
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/6/
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