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The latter paxt of C ., G ' s letter hardly de ^^ rves notice . I am sorry he is so igneraat of modem Ecelesfastecal history a * IKH to appreciate the propriety with which I chose honest William Whiston" for my patron-Saint , if a Protestant may vise the expresaifefi . On one poin $ give me leave to correct your correspondent ' s misapprehension of my character apd designs , ¥ e ajre > to be sure , contending ia tbe dark r and if lilce A } && m * HramfiFj we shotrid call out for a little day-light that eaoh mig ^ t mer l ^ is opponent , your are tdajust to afford us any ; yet T c&fi assure C . G- that besMe » s bei » greally am Unitarian , I have never entertained a thought of being " successor to the atrthorof the Visitation Sermon . I write like
old Di \ John Ech-ardin his u Causes ; of tbe Contempt of the Cfefgy ^ " ^ not out of pinehiTig necessity ^ or out of any rising desigfr / I am ititleed so ignorant respecting the rectory of Cold Norton , that for any thing I knov ^ , C . G . may be its patron . GertainTy , there are many of those cc nursing fathers * ' of the Church not more at home than himself in the subjects of . our correspondence *
While he has so ill clefeide ^ Mr . Stone , C . G . might have easily corrected wMt I hastHy said of Dr . Paley . On further considferatipn ^ I am aware that the Chapter of Moral Philosophy white it furnishes tbe great accTomt > thitionr of a variety of senses in which articles , may be . subscribed , does not provide * for the case of the Visitation Sermon- —a subscribing Clergyman preaching and publishing in direct opposition to the leading ; dogrrra ^ of hfte Ghur ^ ctr , The learned Archdeacon himself was more consistent f he ably defeided Christianity without explaining disputed * poiots , Bxid- has been often said to speak of this as •**¦ all that he conld afFord to do /* As there may be more than one clergyman who has > a hankering after the Unitarian doctrine ^ and may take a slyFook at your Repository .
I wHI ftirnish them with an apology for subscription to a Trinitarian Church , natrch more concise and satisfactory than E > ir . Paley ' s famous chapter . T&t . Ad'dison ^ fathfer of the eelev brated Isp . Addison , who ptsblished in l ; 6 75 r ' < The present State of the Jews in B ^ rbary , ^ mentrons a Jew Physician of * hi » acquarintance in Spam , who being asfeed howl he coiildl comply with the religion'' of that country , merrily made thts reply , tha , t his compliance was only the work of his nerV ^ s Qtid / nrraHcfei ? , and that his anatomy told him ^ uothixtg ojf the heart was therein concerned / ' \ . " ¦ "i
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WhistoniuPs Second L&t £ er tm Stom p s Sermon . 141
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/29/
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