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can but consider as an impregnable hold of Anti-Unitarian doctrine . So decisive a voucher am I forward to admit it be of a TTQXvKQipa . viY ) in heaven , that if I entertained the slightest notion of its being possibly authentic , I should feel myself as much constrained ^ ^
as any Athanasian can feel * to accommodate my conviction of the Unity of God to any hypothesis , by which it could be decently modified . Now if this , or any thing like it , can be the
expression ( well or ill founded ) which this supposed command of our Saviour ' s makes upon a mind convinced that Paganism is as much the doctrine of Christianity as Trinitarian is in is , what must be its effect on those who
identify Trinitarian ism with Christianity ? Will they wot believe any thing rather than offer violence to its more obvious import ? Will any Procrustean process seem illegitimate to them , that can torture Scripture into a seeming
harmony with this extraordinary but decisive text ? Is it not , indeed , matter of fact * that this great vital organ of-the orthodox system generates rather than merely fills all the arteries and veins which flow to and from it ?
What vagary of the human brain could less assimilate with the whole or any part of Scripture , than does the grave and idolized dogma extracted from this singular anomaly in the sacred page ? And yet in the opinion of those who deem it treason to divine
truth to question the evidence by which this solitary testimony to Tritheism , under another name ,, is supported , is there one in a thousand who does not , with Postellus , trace its ramifications in almost every vo-Jume of the Jewish and Christian
Scriptures ? Shall I be contradicted when I say , that the minutest degree of scepticism ,, as to the authenticity of the Baptismal text , would do more to disenchant Athanasianism of its charms , than whole folios of demonstration opposed to the tenet which this text aeefns to involve will be able
to do in a long succession of ages ? Will nay assertion be disproved , if I 'without being reminded of the notable . hoax practised by our factitious monarch xm ^ he li terati of his day . His argument an , aloog disproves the assumption on which U Is founded .
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roundly a # w , that , amongst the mm many ^ dilapidated fortresses of orthodoxy , there ia not <^ e , which offers to €€ . the sword of the ; apirit" a more vulnerable track than does this its vaunted and hitherto all but unsearred citadel ? BASANISTJES DEUTEKQS , ^
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Sir , AS you sometimes allot a corner of your Repository to book * worms , allow me to occupy ; a small space with a brief account of two small tracts , printed together , in a volume which though figured as an octavo is not larger than an
octode-. The whole title is as follows ; " JRre- % cepts , or , Directions for the well-ordering and Carriage of a Man ' s Life , through the whole Course thereof : left by JVilliam , Lord Burghly , to his Sonne at his death , who was some * times Lord Treasurer of this King- *
dome . Also , some other Precepts and Advertisements added , which some- * times was the Jewell and Delight of the right Honourable Lc * rd and Father to his Country , Francis , Earle of Bedford , deceased . In two Bookes * London , printed for Thomas Jones , an ^ are to be sold at his Shop in the
Strand , neare Yorke House , 163 / - " This "Thomas Jones , " the book- * seller , was a smart tradesman- He , has dedicated the volume , which he describes as a new edition , to Richard ,
Lord Buckhurst , to express part of liis thankfulness for the " goodnesse " he had received from this nobleman (and from " the noble Earle" his father , and < the right vertuous Countesse , " his mother . There is a vein
of mirth in this writer from * ' his shop in the Strand , neare Yorke House . " " Multiplicity of words /* he tells Lord Buckhurst , € S begets multiplicity of errors ; especially in those whose tongues were never polished by art . It is true" Che wagt €
gishly adds ) , I have ^ much learning , out that is in my shop , and it is as true that I am ignorant , having not the happinesse to bee bred a scholar- " He then quotes a Latin sentence to excuse his want of education , and that , wi ^ hput saying , as honest John
Bunyan did , in tho like case * ' the Latia 1 borrow / 5 vfe . ^ Npn cuivis hpmini ttcet ddire Corinihum . >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1823, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1780/page/23/
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