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one of these doctrines ( except that of the Trinity ) which does not find ad- vocates among Unitarians , and I am Inclined to believe , that if from the body ofUnitarians were to be
excluded all those who do not believe according to Mr . Belsham ' s negative creed , he would be left in a very inconsiderable minority . But why should we who object to th £ creeds of our brother Christians make ourselves exclusive creeds ? If the Bishop of London wishes to increase our ranks by
giving up to us all who reject the scriptures , why should we thin them by excluding from our community all who do not believe in our peculiar interpretations of scripture ? I can have no objection to Mr . Belsham ' s statement of his own creed ; but when he states it as the creed of that party of Christians to which I have been
accustomed to think that I belong , I must beg leave to demur , and to protest against such an imposition of articles of faith , both because my own opinion is different and because I do not allow of any such authority , whether vested in an individual or a community , I remain , Sir , Your ' s , very sincerely , W . FREND .
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Napoleon ' s Return and Resumption . 227
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Sir , April 12 , ) 815 . rpHERE is mentioned , in the JL Saints * Everlasting Rest , an author , on the Intermediate State , who does not appear in Archdeacon Blackburned View of the Controversy / , nor have I met with him elsewhere .
Baxter ' s 10 th Chapter of the 2 d Part ( 1652 ) is entitled , " Whether the Souls departed enjoy this rest before the resurrection . " £ [ e remarks , that " the Socmians , and many others of late amdng us , think , that the soul separated from the body , is either nothing ,
° * at least not capable of happiness or misery . " He afterwards observes , 14 to say ( as Lushington doth ) that they Jje said to be made perfect , because * ey are sure , of it , as if they had it : jj an evasion so grossly contradicting [ tetext , that bV such commentaries
^ e may as we ji deny any trath in ^ pture : to make good which he * * micli nbuseth , that of PhiL iii . l ^ * & **> Baxter says , cc Luskingtoris ^ ittoti is , that because * thc-re is no ^ w ith dead men ; but they so **?> % at wfien thfcy awalte , it i » all
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—" - - ~ Sir . March SI , 1815 . nj ^ HE eighteen days of Napoleon JL which conducted him from the shore of France to resume the imperial throne , will probably , from their
influence on human affairs , be ranked in historical importance with the eighteen years of his public life , which elapsed between his first command in Italy and his abdication at Fontainebleau . That extraordinary man , like every other man , is immortal till his work is done . As to what that work may
now be , the politician and the Christian are equally ignorant , and , though from very different motives , equally solicitous . Under these circumstances , you will probably regard the annexed paper , which I have translated entire from the Moniteur of the £ 2 d of
March , as much more than a mere political article , and worthy of your preservation . You are aware that writers for governments have cultivated with peculiar success the ails ad cuptandum vulgus , atid will make due allowance for the management
with which state-papers , in all countries , are got up for the information ^ or rather the direction of the people ; I can only answer for the fidelity of the translation , which is strictly literal ^ so far as my acquaintance with tffc original and the idioms of Itmgunqt
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one < to them , as if it had been at first . Therefore ' the scripture speaks of them as if they were there already . ' " This ' evasion , however , was no other than the doctrine of the German
Reformer , as he is quoted by Jortin , Ann . 1518 . in the case of his friend and patron , John , Elector of Saxony , who died of an apoplexy immediately on his return from the chase . " Our e-ood Prince /* said T / nth ^ r
" expired like an infant , without trouble or fear : and when he awakes at the last day , he will imagiae that he is just come home from the forest . " But who was Lushington ? The
' ( I ^—B R name occurs once in the Catalogue of Williamss Library , in the title of an octavo volume , Lnshingtonii Thorn . ) Logica Analytica . 1650 . shall thank any of your readers for a description of the work on which Baxter animadverted , or an account of the author . . .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/27/
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