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SocHnan itojpers , whetice herbreeftme , ; in the main , a Socinian ; yet he d 8 l not symbolize with them in their errors , touching' the Divine attribiftes ; upon which account he would sometime say , he was no Socinian . Some ,
also , to whom he was personally known , have exdefSted the point * df the Satisfaction , for he sfcetaed , indeed , to have had some particular notions of his own about this matter . He was a
man of an open and frank disposition , but withal too bold , and easily to be hefcted ; otherwise , the conduct of his Ufe was sober and fegular , not blegMfeed with any remarkable imrnora-| Hf but rather abounding- with good
Wrorks ^ which he earnestl y pressed . fte was very busy and zealous in de-^ fcftd ing those new principles which he had taken up , and which the gross absurdities of the Antinomian system , then much in vogue , had probably contributed more than a little to iling him into . "
The €€ Divine of the Church of En-^ gland" says , that he was " well known and esteemed by Dr . Cumberland , the Reverend Bishop of Peterborough , who used to speak of him by the name of Hottest Gilbert . " f Of his works , the following titles are known : De Plenitudine MundL
Lond . 1660 . 8 vo . —De Restitutione Corporura . Lond . 1662 . 8 vb . —The Spot Dial . Lond . 1687 . 4 to . J Distinct from these , probably , is another work referred to by Nelson , as follows : " He was for certain an
excellent mathematician , his book upon Mr . OughtredV Clavis being much valued by the ablest judges in that part of learning . ' * § Two Latin tracts al * e all the theological works of Clerke that the present writer has discovered : they Were published , with a third , by an
anonymous hand , under the title , *' 'Tractates Tres : Quorum qtti torior ;\ nite-Nicenismus dicitur ; -is eihfibet testimonia Patrum Ante-Nicenoruro , in quibus elucet sensus Ecclegiafe Prim&evb-Catholicae quoad Articulum die Trinitate . In secundo brevis Reeponsio ordinatur ad D . G . Bulli ,
Defensio-• Nelson 9 ut sup . pp . 511 , 512 . + Grounds , &c . p . 1 /; X These are taken from Watt ' s Bibllo thm ** % Nelsoo , p . 5 i ^ .
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nem Synodi Nicense , authore Cmbqrto Clerk ' fi' Ai ^ fcf . Ai ^ nmentum Pos - trerai : vera et antiqua Kdes de Divihitafe Ghmti explicata et assefrta , contra D . Bulli Judicium Ecctesiae Cdtholicae , &c . per Anonymuin , Anno Domini , 1695 . ^
A-ti answer to Clerke was found amobj ^ t Dt . G rafted jpap 6 r ^; in the hand--writing of Bishop Bull , ^ and waa published in the 3 rd volume of- Bull ' s Sermons and Discourses , ( 8 vo . 1714 , ) entitled , Breves * Animadverstones , &c , or , as the title of the translation , which
precedes the Latin work \ n the volume , runs , " The Consubstantiality and the Coeternity of the Son of God with the Father , asserted ; or some few Animadversions on a Treatise of Mr . Gilbert Clerke , entitled Ante-Nieenismujfj , so fkr as the said- Author
pretends to Answer Dr . George Bull's Defence of tie Nicene Faith , " &c . Clerke published his name to his tracts , says Nelson , * as not being ashamed or afraid to own what he had written , " because he took it to be
the very cause of God and of his Unity against all sorts of Polytheists . " The biographer adds ^ f that the € f three tracts came out together , that so the Unitarians might thereby take an occasion to boast of a complete answer in Latin" to all that Bishop Bull bad written in the Trinitarian controversy *
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Letter , &c . * > S ' , You may possibly remember y such a , man as I , was about five yeares since with you in your chamber , to expostulate with you about ^ passage in your Cure of Cburph Divisions , in which you joyned Socinians and Ma ^ umetans together ; now I
send thia letter much upon y * same errand . Some are of opinion y * you have utterly overthrowue D * . JStillingfleet . in . your Second Defence , & I aip oue of y * My meditations upon occasional discourse With a
Staffordshire * Divine & D . Terttplar ^ s sefmoa ( not long after 1 was with you ) about episcopacy are very suitable to yours ; wherein as I ^ ivmnt not only Bfehops , but I ^ sfejWAI ; & Deacons too , in fneat churchea if need be , so I
Ut mp . p . b&U * t P . 502 .
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® S An Original Letter of Remoh&tr'&hee to Richard Baxter , on his
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/2/
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