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-tttt < 3 ® A is tf ^ terao ^ so spoken ofia SfeHpttti ^ : ' ¦ '¦ " ' : '* * fii y * same p * 23 * you spfeske ' of original Sintie , 1 ^^ as to y « corruption of nature or ritiotis inclinations ' , should be propounded rather as a curse than a tfinwf as |> art of Goda-cursfe ft * Adams transgression & y «
wickednesse of y « ' - ' world * rather than so properly -a feiiitie as our oWne voluntary sinhes arfe For y « cure of this * what odde doctrines dde the Lutherans & others teach tfcdtr disciples , concern * ing the' sacrecaent of Baptisme con ^ ferreing gradg fftfn ponentibiis obfcem ; & therefore to fell children baptized ,
who they say doe actually beleive and understand ( all Tho : Aquinas his summers , no doubt ) . Possibly it may be simply lawfull to baptifce infants , as it miy be * di ) ne : ( I think y primitive Xtians did circumcise y ™ for h time : ) bat y * it is better and niore scr iptural , as y « 27 th article sayth , I cannot subscribe : if y s&bscriptioii
had been oaly negative , ( as I hare seen an Irish one , ) possibly I might have been content to hold nay tongue . I think I should in a matter of greater moment , when to speake would doe more hurt than good , as you Very well say . I have askd some of y « old & best approved Xtians , whither when they have been tempted , whither ( I
say ) they have felt any efficacious checque from theif baptismal vow in infancie , or what their Godfathers promised for y * " ? and they have confessed y ^ they have not . What witches and y Devil doe is not much to be regarded . 'Tis said , Act . 2 , they continued in y Apstftles' doctrine , &c . trJTill we 9
have recovered the apostlesdoctrine from all Baby Ion ical mixtures , our Christian communion will be very lame . Some good may be done , but something will be so done as to be undone againe another time , and all our national agreements &
combinations will be but conspiracies and confederacies , which must downe another time , except our magistrates and grandees would be persuaded to urge as a
condition of ye publique ministry a subscription to but few articles & but in undoubted scripture expressions , with some test against Popery & complete indulgence to all reformed di *~ setters in things ^ merely spiritual , where : ia no , civfi iniurie , & not gr « -
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tifie Atheists & cartiid men who would Undoubtedly subscribe to a Iftin dred things more Tather than lo ^^ their benefices t % \\ ey" wUlntfrbe sncfc fooles , as Camden sayth of v Papists in Qu : EH « : tiifae , y « of 12 ^ 00 beheficd men not above 80 wdiild loosfe
their preferments - & some least y * Heretiqties should g 6 tt y ^ . Sil ^ h kind of subscriptions are Honey & nutts for y « Devill . I was reading yesterday Josia ^ Nicholas , who mtten inveighs fcgst y , An : 1602 , & Zanchy * s letter to Qu : Eliz : agst ye Surplice .
S * , I hope you will take this my Apologie in good part . God continue you in health & prolong your life . I hope y selfe & all about you will bfe carefull of you . Good people
challeridge a title to y longest day of your life , & pray heartily tor you : sodoe I , resting , S , your Hfost hekrtie 'ffriend & humble servaunt , " r ' ' G . C .
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Sir , IN the preface to his Examination of the Scotch faculty of Common Sense , Dr . ^ Priestley expresses much surprise that a stanch CalViniat , like
Jonathan Edwards , should believe and ably defend the doctrine of Hiilosophical Necessity , which he considers to be more closely allied to the creed of Socinus . I am well aware that
Unitarianism and Calvinism are usually regarded as consisting of the most discordant elements , ana that in the estimation of the generality , the antipodes of the opposite hemispheres are not more remote from each of her , than the peculiar tenets 6 f Cahfin and
Dr . Priestley . But really HipoA a closer view of some of their opttikrtis , I cannot discover that their v&rfattce is altogether so irreconcileafc&e ; nor can I avoid perceiving several striking points of resemblance between the
systems of these renowaeA tMfrteitties . Thus the Calvinist affirflds mkt * m ® te a small portion of manfctwi ir ^ vpire destined by the unalterable decrees of heaven to eternal life , the ^ reat majority ate consigned to hopeless
condemnation . The Unitarian like * wise ( whom I suppose to entertain the doctrine of Necessity ) believes' that comparatively few of the human race wilt ab finr comply with theinjunctiems of Ghristianity v as to entitteltheto ( o a hare mV its promised rew ^ rtls , and
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aad P ^ U * f Resemblance bettoeen Unitarianum arid ZJalttiriism . 71
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/7/
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