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had declared to be nought . I cannot help adding how secondary must have been the importance attached to the Christian doctrine of a resurrection , when Christians were so tenacious « of a natural immortality in the soul V
A learned Divine of that Assembly , the grand Caterer and Dry Nurse of the Presbyterian Church and still famous for its Pap of Catechismsy will furnish the other example . Henry
Hickman , Felloe of Magdalen College , Oxford , in " a Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen , against Mr . Thomas Pierce , " a Laudean Clergyman , published in 1659 , maintains , «* that the
iouI is not by propagation , or ex traduce , as they speak , but immediately created by jGod . " He , however , thus proceeds to surmount the difficulties which appear to have puzzled Dr .
Donne , " 'Who can imagine how the soul , which is spiritual and immaterial , should be defiled , by being joined to a body , which though full of natural imperfections is not sinful , and if it were $ ieful could not
communicate its sinfuiu-ess to the soul that informs it . But now holding original » in to be a privation , in an active subject , we do avoid all these inconveniences by saying , that Adam , by his first transgression , did sin away the image of God from himself and his
posterity , who w ^ re m him , not only as a natural , but as a federal head also , and 99 God createth the souls of men void of this image , and yet justly looks upon them as sinners , for wanting this image , because they ought to have it , and by their own folly deprived themselves of it . " Or to describe this
scheme , \ frhich I believe has been lately called rational Calvinism , in language horribly correct * God provides for every human body a soul as good as he eanr now make it , since the sirx of Adam , and th ^ n su bjects ulat soul to > eternal damnation for not having been made better So is th £
. rather of Mercies to is represented in the vagaries of his erring children . * ne notion of sin as a privation has I Unnk been warily discussed among kanied Calviuists in our times . I wl
¦ the following passage on another ¦ Object , from Mr . Hickman ' s Preface ?** cqru ) us morsel of royal Church J ?? tory , and serving to shew how tl £ T ® &' > # w * dUy charge ** AmmkHo * witfe holcliag Soci » iai >
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" Mr . Edward Sympson , a fine critic , preached a sermon before King James , at Royston , taking for his text , John iii . 6 , ' That which is bora of the flesh is flesh / Hence he endeavoured to prove that the
commission of any great sin doth extinguish grace and God ' s spirit , for the time , in man . He added also , that St . Paul , in the 7 th chapter to the Romans , spake not of himself as an Apostle and regenerate , but sub statu legis . Hereat his Majesty took , and publicly
expressed , great distaste ; because Arminius had lately been blamed for extracting the like exposition out of the works ofFaustus Socinus . Whereof he sent to the two Professors iiv Cambridge , for their judgment herein , who proved and subscribed the place , ad Rom . vii . to be understood of a
regenerate man , according to St . Augustine , his latter opinion in his Retractations y ' and the preacher was enjoined a public recantation before , the King ; which was performed accordingly /'
It excites indignation to read of such a man as King James , whose moral character was worse than equivocal , affecting to have his mind interested upon theological niceties * There ' s such divinity doth hedge a
Kingotherwise the learned and , I daresay , generally conscientious translators of the Common Version could never have disgraced themselves by their fulsome dedication to that " most high and
inighty Prince , " whose " appearance ' in England they compare to " thesuu in its strength . " It . B .
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tfdle ef Rowland Hi 11 % eoneerntng Th \ Priestley , 451
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Sir , JRortsea , Sept . 1815 . HPHE Rev . Rowland Hill has been JL here several weeks preaching , to the amusement of many , and the satisfaction of some . He had a
number of stories and anecdotes to entertain the public with : but it seemed as if they were a set , for when he was here before he retailed many of the same . There was one now introduced , amongst others , to sport with what he termed Rational Christians *
" That Eh-, Priestley never made but one convert , and that was a person given to drunkenness ; and being asked , how long he continued a better man , he said , O , not long , he believed . "— -Now , Sir , $ s many of your
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/31/
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