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from legal investigation , and stimulating their ignorant and deluded adherents to outrage and insult those whose duty prompted them to expose their mal-practices , have heretofore too often successfully contrived to convert so sacred an edifice into a Bear
Garden . Determined , if possible , to prevent a recurrence ofsuch disgraceful scenes , or , at least to prevent the church from being turned into a conventicle , I give you notice , ( and
desire you will communicate the same to your colleagues , and the rest of the fraternity , ) that , if you , or any person or persons shall presume to enter the church on the 14 th inst . fot
the purpose of holding a meeting for the Bible , ( as it is miscalled ) or for any other association , that I will vindicate my rights against such invasion , and enforce such penalties against the offenders as the ecclesiastical and civil law may enjoin .
" * I am , Sir , yours , &c . ( Signed ) « JOSHUA K ING . ' " < To William Braggr ' ?* For the purpose of avoiding contention the meeting is adjourned to Gibralter Chapel , Bethnal Green Road . '
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74 fc Mr . W * Ftend ' s Comment on a Passage of Horace .
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•¦^¦¦^^^^ mbb * « Sir , IS it too much to assume that an act of Almighty power , wisdom , and goodness , must be so immutably right , so altogether worthy its divine original , that a parallel act under all its circumstances must be as
immutably right as altogether worthy , &c- ? What now should he think of the Supreme Being multiplying ad infinitum 7 or only indefinitely such an achievement as was , on the
Calvinistic hypothesis , the creation of man 1 Can the human imagination on the contrary , conceive a case of which the repetition in a single instance should be , reasoning a priori , so utterly , so ineffably improbable ? CLERICUS .
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Sir , Nov . 27 , 1815 . COPY the following from the I Public Ledger of this morning : €€ We are concerned to notice * that
the spirit of superstition seems not to have been abated , by all the calamities which Europe has suffered . The King of Naples has made a present to the Virgin of Monte Leone of a
diamond necklace , and one of Mural ' s decorations Perhaps " some of the readers of your Repository may have overlooked tin ' s important information . It is fitting they should know what is the fruit of British instruction during the royal exile in the Island of Sicily . J . W .
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Comment on a passage of Horace hi Mr . W . Frend . [ Extracted from tlie Evening ' s Amuse ments , for the year 1816 . 1
IN the midst of the gross darkness , in which the nations were enveloped before the coming * of our Saviour , faint glimmerings of light beamed through the surrounding gloom , and we should be astonished , that in the
highly cultivated state of the human intellect at some periods , they did not produce a greater effect * if we , who have been blessed with the divine effulgence , had not witnessed in our own times , to what degree it may be obscured by passion and prejudice . Three distinguished poets flourished
in the age of Augustus . They were , I am persuaded , all of them more or less acquainted with the holy scriptures . The Pollio of Virgil has led many to attribute to him the perusal of the prophet Isaiah : the first lines of the Metamorphoses of Ovid scarcely admit a doubt , that the first chapter of Genesis was familiar to him : and
a passage in Horace convinces me , that an attempt had been made to impress on his mind the great truth inculcated in the Hebrew scriptures . Yet their hearts were hardened v and
in spite of the opportunities , of superior knowledge , they perverted their fine talents to the support of the prevailing superstitions and the most degrading notions of the divinity .
That Horace was acquainted \ vi& the sacred scriptures we cannot doubt , when we consider , that one of his most intimate friends was a frequentep of the sy nagogue . This circu mstance we learn from his own works , and it
cannot be imagined , that Fuscus Aristius , a scholar of great eminence , could be attached to the Jewish religion , without imparting to his friend * Virgil and Horace , some of the sublime truths , which he derived from it . But we have internal evidence , that puts it beyond all doubt , that this would be at times a subject of c onversation .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page 742, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/14/
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