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In the affair , and seems to have felt the . disgrace , for amongst the MSS . which he left behind him , is his €€ Defence in the Matter relating X , 6 Dan . Scargill . "
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€€ The Recantatio ? i of Daniel Scargill , publicly made before the University of Cambridge , in Great St . Mary ' s , July 25 , 1669 . Cambridge , printed by the Printers to the University ¦ , 1669 . " Whereas I Daniel Scargill , late Bachelor of Arts and Fellow of Corpus Christi College ih the University
of Cambridge , being , through the instigation of the Devil , possessed with a foolish proud conceit of my own wit , and not having the fear of God before my eyes : have lately vented and publicly asserted in the said University divers wicked , blasphemous and Atheistical positions , ( particularly ,
that all right of dominion is founded only in power ; that if the Devil were omnipotent he ought to be obeyed ; that all moral righteousness is founded only in the positive law of the civil
magistrate ; that the Scriptures of God are not law further than they are enjoined by the civil magistrate ; that , the civil magistrate is to be obeyed though he should forbid the worship of God , or command theft , murder
and adultery , ) professing that I gloried to be an Hobbist and an Atheist ; and vaunting that Hobbs should , be maintained by Daniel , that is , by me : agreeably unto which principles and positions , I have lived in great licentiousness : swearing- rashlv : drinking tiousness ; swearing rashly ; drinking
intemperately ; boasting myself insolently ; corrupting others by my pernicious principles and example :. to the high dishonour of God , the reproach of the University , the scandal of Christianity , and the just offence of mankind . And whereas the
Vicechancellor and Heads of the said University , upon notice of these my foul enormities , upon a full , examination and clear conviction of these premised offences , after suspension from my degree , did expel me out of the said University * now I , the said Daniel Scargill , after frequent consideration , strict examination and serious review
of the said positions , do find , by the grace of that God , whom I had denied , Wood ' s Atlicn . Oxon . ut sup . HI . 1215 .
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that they are not only of daogereus and mischievous' cfchsequentce , inconsistent with the being of God , sLnd destructive to human society ; but that they are utterly false , the suggestions of a lying spirit , wholly against my own judgment resolved
upon better consideration , as well as against the common sense of mankind . And I do freely acknowledge the proceedings and sentence of my go verities , the Vice-Chancellor and heads of the University , to be just and
equal , agreeable to the duty of their place , and the trust reposed in them , that they could not have done less to vindicate the Divine honour , and suppress that mischief growing up in this age , which no former hath known .
" And now I adore and bless the highest Majesty of God in his infinite mercy to me , that he hath not suffered me to go on unreclaimed in my enormous principles and practices ; but hath made my face to be ashamed ,
that I may seek his name . Righteousness belongeth unto thee , O Lord , but unto me , and to those who have seduced me * , and to those who have been seduced by me , shame and . confusion of face . O what height of wickedness had I arrived unto ! For I must
confess myself guilty of impleading the Divine " Majesty at the tribunal of human wit , making , man judge whether God should be , God or no . Nay , whereas the Devil , my tempter , to whom I had hearkened , doth believe and tremble , I , vile wretch , have been void of . the faith and fear of God in
the manifold manifestations of him . Wherefore I humbly ask pardon of God above all , whom I have blasphemed ; of my Governors in the University , whom I have disturbed ; of all Christians and all men for the
great offence I have given unto all : more especially of so many as have been misled into any error or vice by me . And I do also humbly and earnestly beseech all men , especially so
many of the younger scholars as have been seduced by me , ( who now abhor what I formerly boasted to assert , ) that they beware by my example of the most subtle ; insinuations of the
Devil in the vain ostentation of their own wit . That they lean not to tktir own understanding , but * consult $ he Holy Scriptures , ; the lively .-Qrtefft * God , that from thence they mm l e **
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148 Recantation of Ddni&l Scargill ; 1669 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/20/
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