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dlstfDimey thc ^ ugk eicc ^ lent and hidiekyto tiB $# rili % fisait * partQ of it , yet eonlftfrieif sbme ifefeifteiital asser Honsy whiefe \^ ave no smratl offence to many femh of the Church and © is-^ ent in ^ com rauniotts , particularly the ? foHowitig passages i ¦ * I eanoot think ( till I b © better informed , which I am always iready 40 h& % that any pretence of conscience warrants any man , thai
is not excratfrdroarily commissione d ^ as the aposcfea and first publishers of the gospel were , and cannot justify that cor » i » ission by miracles , as they Hid , to affront the established religion &f a tt&tioi * * though It be false , and openly w draav men crftf from the p * d ^ fesstoi * of ft ; in contempt of the ma *
gistrate and the lavr . All that persons of a different ; religion cam in such a case reasonably pretend to * is to < enjoy the private liberty and exercise m their # wn conscience aod retig io ** , < bi ?
which-they ought to be vte * jr thankful > and to forbear the open Making of pro # ely « ea t& tfceir ot * i * religion , ( though they be sever so mm that they are in the righti ) till they have either an ext * aordifcary emamissiofc
from God to fttafc purpose , or the providence df € & >« m ^ e wa ^ r far it by the permission of th £ magistrate / * Dr . Hfelc ^ s atile ^ f tfii ^ dovmrigbt Hobbitim ; aad feMs us , tftiat » witty Lord , % fetandin ^ ar ^ ie Kiiig ^ elfcNwv ^ , when it was delivered , said , « S ir , Sirr be tt&a
d » ye ^ t hmt Mr . Hob ^ ia pulpit 1 ' And tft&t Dfc , OtiHttinsv B&hop of Ely , cofrrplained of il in t ^ e House of Lorda , aft a doctrine th ^ t would serve the fi ^ fr of Pb petfy . He cMea ^ Hkewfe ^ , fhe fcltowittg extract of a 0 r ;
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sermod , that he was not awake , bo ^ bad $ te * &&i mm 0 ^^^^ mm harej whea lie wwrte it . The plac 61 mean is p % e ^ . ^ TMre tkn Tl ^ y Mi istence of a God nta / be * thongiir to be cailed into < fuestiort by h ^ an < l to be , in his account , but a politic ? invention . For thus he writes ,
pressifig ^ religion && the strongest band of human society : God is so necessary t& the welfareimd happiness of Mankind , m * if ? the being * * / G ^ dd himself kdd been pvcrporelg desi ^ 7 ied < ffi < l co ntrived for me temj&t arid admntagv vf meh :
In which hi 3 meaning is so turtcywatdly expressed , that ycrtt cannot but thirrk he was irtdispoWd when he tvrote so untov ^ ardly . He hath altered thi ^ passage , I hear , in the eee&nd edition j btit * 6 it is , a ^ I have received it in
that , which he sent me at its &r $ conii&g oat . Ah < J , indeed , tBat p % retithesis , in the first ptirt erf the s ^ - mon , fiitt I be bettefr iytf&rmed , ) aheM& he was in too great haste at least , when he composed it : else he vrotilrf «^ v er fiave ad vaatarea td deRver hfe
opinion in a matter m such moment , till he had bfeen better itrforme * of ittf truth . ... I do not write this otit af any change there is in triy mkid eoHc ^ nfing' persons or things / haV rng * thfe very sat »^ tliouffbts I Sad , wh ^ tf you and I conversea more fr ^ jaenfiy together , but the lamentable easedf
things . . . I cannot but have a tdve t& « &t . THlotson ' s pei ^ ofi , though 1 have none for his opinion . I , therefore , would gladly hav <* him vre \ l treated , thooghhe be never so sharply repined / Dr . Hickes adds , tlafat Dr . Pstrtek cottfi ^ med ail thfo t ^ D 3 r .
Patker , when he met tite lMter fc London , and said , that Dr . Tillotson ou ^ Bt to give satisfaction bv a retractai ^ ion , or el&e be exposed . * If he will not / sdjfs hey * be reduced , be ^ tig-ht ta have ncr m ^^ y ^ bxit tw be lnitrfed oat of the Chrifitlan hu ^ ch tviteir te wift riit * ot *^ tr .
' - " * T&e IJfeifo ^ tfbetrin ^ ^ Hkt \ tfe ^ animjadverted " ' -aj ^' ^ r ' Mri SlWpii l . ou ^ th , \ 4 Hr '^ fmWaW in the didcfeWe ^ C # l ## ii § fin ^ 8 ^ ' Of ttfftS ^ i O ^^ wliem pt residea ^ jgi Korce , Extent aod ¦
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\ _ Z > 9 ^ ( qfteritx&ds jfrchbishop ) Tilfasm . " 193
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/7/
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