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• Hf ^^ t ^ bip ^ . f Ci , £ > . 4 ?^ ! l ! ^ ^ A ** A ^ w ^ i ^ tQ : Prf r § l ^) - /^^ s ^ ecc > xid Lgtyes * cw ^ t the £ i * bje $ tT # f Pferesyj in . wfciich tj ^ e ^ Hple . j Cpr ^^ Qversyasj ^ ly sut ^ d an < ft re-e * ai » in $ 4 j : by James Xqs ^^ ^ 343 , ;* ' A ^ V ^ Triie ( State ; of the Controversy wijh Mr , JFo ^ ^ i : r o ^ the JSiihjeckof Heresy in . answer to hjs Second ^ Letter , % , Henry Stebbing , D . E ) . 1736 ; " 6 . « An ^ Answer
^ 1 ^^ Stcbbiag ' s * True State of the Controversy with Mj * Jfoster qr ^ the Subject of heresy ; ' by Jaxnes Foster , 1737 . ° TJ ^ senun » ept advanced by Mr * Foster ( tronj Tit . iii . 10 , 11 . ) tyas , that a , heretic was one who , contrary to his own coavictjpri , maintained any doctrine : and he inferred that as opne pan ordinarily tell who is self-condemned , without the gift of di ^ qerningr spirits , the use of the rule laid down in that passage vyas peculiar to the Apostles'time . Dr . Stebbing contended , thAt themeaning was , that such a person not studying ,, liJc q ^ an ) r o tji er offenders , to conceal his crime , and thereby obliging others to prove it , but openly declaring and maintain * Jng biasentiment ^ was accused and condemned out of his pw ti
„ Dr . Stebbing , in the tone of an assuming dogmatist , began ibe debate in a strain that tended to draw an odium on the opinion and doctrine of the person with whom he entered ihQ lists ; and his arguments led to support and justify spiritual dpmipation and tyrannyf . The controversy produced the fpllowing epigrammatic lines , that appeared in the Gentlenj 4 n ' $ Magazine ;— . ic The Doctor sfates the case so odd , '• That both are in the lurch— ' Slebbing a heretic to God , And Foster to the Church . " The Doctor is in a hopeful case , Poor Foster is undone : For Heav ' n we know , abounds with grace , Alas ! the Church has none . ' *
. ..-. ! Three volumes of sermons ^ within a few yearly followed the anpcavancq of the first : but his most splendid publication ^ wfoh respect to the patronage with which it \ yas iavoured , and the manner in which ic was printed , was _ ic Discourses on all the -Principal Branches , of ^ Natural Religion and Social Virtue /* V . i&vfrbi . 4 to , It was , honoured with the names - iof , noJasithan ^ miwm ^ ou $£ ind . Suhscribers . In these discourses * # & -tll « author % ' . iibj ^^ es >\ . SQJE » e > things , perhaps , will he found Uiat ri ^ nov so * I 3 o < ltlriil ^ c ^ Course of I , e c turc i 6 , Vol . II . p , % + r 8 r © i . f Im > . llmis / on . Vol . XvJI , . p * is , AS * - ¦ : •» . ' . T -. ?¦ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/4/
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