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tisticall men and deliberate Anabaptisme . The first tumults -were raised above an hundred years since by illiterate dreamers , such as Nicholas Storke , Thomas Muncer , Phifer Ringus , and the rest ; yet Muncer at that time laid a fairefoundation for Servetus ,
Socinus and the rest to build upon ; for he denyed the satisfaction of Christ j and what doctrine is fundamental ] , if the satisfaction of Christ be not ? The Socinians make it their grand designe to persuade men that Jesus Christ
hath not truly and properly satisfied for our sinnes . The heresy of the Anabaptists was not backed with any strength of argument , nor methodically digested , till Servetus and Socinus set to work . I must then look
upon Servetus and Socinus as the maine pillars of deliberate and refined Anabaptisme . " Amongst the charges against the Anabaptists , are their doctrine of the liberty of prophesying , and * their tubbe-preachers : the Socinians had not such preachers , but they had the doctrine which authorizes the use of
tubbes in any way that interferes not with the peace of society or the rights of individuals . Cheynell is no friend to Liturgies , though he states a fact with regard
to them which might have _ been expected to conciliate a mind like his : * ' Be pleased to observe that Liturgies were first composed to expell
Sociniamsme-One reflection shall conclude this lengthy article : How are the intolerance and fury of divines , from Cheynell upwards and downwards , with regard to " Socinianism , " * to be accounted for 1 Is not this the sole
reason , that this ism , more than any other , has tended to put down the priest and to set up man ! As far as modern Unitarianism has the same tendency it will experience the same treatment : accommodate it to the idle forms and fopperies of hierarchies , and you take
away its worst features in the eyes of churchmen , but it behoves you to take care that you do not in the same degree destroy its resemblance to the Christianity of the New Testament , and rob it of the sanction and influence which if has hitherto derived from
its reasonableness , simplicity and man liness .
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500 Mr . Coyarion Mysteries *
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\ Higham Hill , Aug . 9 */ vl 8 l 5 , * Sir , BEING disengaged a few Sundays ago , I had an opportunity of hearing a very good and useful sermon delivered by an orthodox dissenting
minister- I did not indeed agree with the preacher in every point , and my ear was particularly struck with words to the following effect ; that there are two descriptions of men who are hostile to Christianity , they who reject
revelation altogether and they who will admit nothing as an article of revelation which they do not understand , who rush upon a mystery without any reverence for its awful retirement . As I have never been accustomed to
feel much reverence for the retirement of a mystery , 1 found my self compelled to take my station in this latter class , and there 1 was led into a train of reflections which I have since committed to paper , and which are now at your service .
My first reflection , if such I may call it , was a feeling of astonishment that Christian divines should be so fond of contending for mysteries in religion , after , having read the fifth verse of the seventeenth chapter of the book of Revelation . " And on her
forehead was a name written , Mystery , Babylon the great , the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth . * But my astonishment subsided a little when _ I recollected that theologians , as by a species of infatuation , have not unfrequently sealed the condemnation of their favourite doctrines , by
the very terms in which they have expressed them . I was next led to ask myself what is meant by the term mystery , as it has been generally applied to the doctrines of revelation . Is it simply a truth which surpasses the comprehension of the
human mind , as the self-existence of the Deity , or is it a proposition which contradicts the most certain conclusions of the understanding , as the doctrine of transubstantiation ? Or , is it a term which they who employ it do not wish to have accurately defined , what
and which as implying generally is incomprehensible , may denote either what is above reason or what is contrary to it > Is it one of those ambiguous sounds * which controversialists not unfrequently make use of as thoug " to perplex the subject of inquiry , M « by which they not only attempt to ac-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 500, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/36/
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