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object of prayer , a | id on the other , a& receiving help from another . Soon after Christ is termed , inconsistently enough with his needing help from another , " a lowly-minded though om-7 iipotent Saviour . " And according to this Epistle it was Christ who " endowed us by nature" with " the ta-1
lents" we enjoy , " however great , ' ** s well as with the more excellent gifts of his holy spirit . Whereas the Epistle of the present vear declares , that " it is to the Lord
Almighty that we are indebted for the blessing" of existence , for the means of redemption , and for that lively hope of immortality which cqmes by Jesus Christ ; " that " it is from this holy source [ the Lord Almighty ]' that every enjoyment both spiritual and
temporal flows -. " And instead of inculcating the propriety of" endeavouring to apply—to him upon whom help is laid—in secret supplication , " this Epistle enjoins the duty of secret prayer u to the Almighty for preservation from the temptations with which ' we ' " are
encompassed 5 " -- " to offer all" our " natural powers , and every intellectual attainment to the service of the same Lord , and patientl y to persevere in a course of unremitting obedience to the DiWne will .
1 lie compilers of this Epistle appear to have been impressed with the importance of inculcating these truths on those whom they addressed . They return to the subject again , and conclude by saying , " Let us ever remember , tliat if we obey the Divine commandments , we shall do all to the
glory of God ; we shall always acknowled ge that it is of his mercy if we ever become partakers of the unspeakable privilege of the true disciples of Him who « died for all , that they that live , * > ould henceforth not live unto them-8 elves , ^ but unto him that died for them , and rose again . * " 2 Cor . v . 15 .
ff any member of the Society of fiends who may see these observations , should imagine the above passes can be reconciled to each other , have no doubt from your wonted impartial ity / but you will readily insert an pertient explanation . of these apparent inconsistencies and * contradictiQ Us .
I am yours , &c . AN INQUIRER
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Sir , SHALL be obliged if any of your I Correspondents can inform me as to the author of an anonymous pamphlet , the title of which I give at length . It is as follows— " Causa Dei contra Novatores , or God ever present with ,
G od ever propiteous to his people . — In answer to Christ ever present , &c by Dr . Hughes—Christ the great propitiation by Mr . Wilson—printed for J . Noon , at the White Hart , in Cheapside , 1747 . "—The writer is a Unitarian and in treating his subject , is remarkably clear and cogent . I am , Sir , yours ,
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Dr . Zach . Grey . —Cannes Bible . 547
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T . C . A . Sir , Aug . 9 , 1815 * WISH Mr . Evan * , ( p . 419 ) had I been furnished with the name of
Di . Grey ' s work quoted by Mr . Brook , whose " History of the Puritans" I have not seen . It is probably sparing of references , like too many modern compilations .
Dr . Zachary Grey was a clergyman of high monarchical principles . Ha died in 1766 at the age of 80 , and has a place in Mr . Nichols ' s * ' Literary History of the Eighteenth Century /* as th « author of nearly thirty publications . Among these have been distinguished " Iludibras with Notes , " and " an Examination of Neal ' s
History of the Puritans . ' * Both work * sufficiently discover his aversion to any semblance of Nonconformity and his prejudice against Nonconformists . As Canne is not in the index to the notes , he is probably mentioned in one of the volumes of the Examination .
Wherever the passage quoted by Mr . Brook is to be found , it will , I am persuaded , appear to have been one instauce of the prejudice which , after some attention to his writings , 1 have attributed to Dr . Grey . I never met with a biography of Canne , but from Wood , A then , Oxon ,
( i . w 7 , & 11 . 6 % 9 )• under the ar tic lei John Ball and Marchmont Needham , we learn that in 1642 he was " the leader of the English Brownists at Amsterdam " an ( l author of two publications , " A necessity of separation from the Church of England , proved by the Nonconformists' principles , "
and " A stay against straying , to prove the unlawfulness of heaving thf Ministers of the Church of England . " Camie must have returned to England
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/15/
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