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    reason whenever it suits their purpose ^ and never say any thing agaiust it only when it seems to militate against their notions , and even then they attempt to reason against the use of reason , which is very absurd . I have been leH strongly to suspect that when they talk against reason they wish to have us believe what is unreasonable , and to lead us imperceptibly to what I have been told was once a popish maxim , that ignorance is the mother of devotion . "

    To convince me of the fallacy of my conclusions , I have been told what has appeared to me altogether a riddie , about two natures in Christ , that some things are spoken of him as God , and others as man , and that the same things are true of him and not true of him at the same

    time ; but this is so contrary to common sense that I have never been able to comprehend it : infact , it seems to make nonsense of the scriptures ; for how can the very same person be incapable of being bom , or of dying , as God must ever be , and vet be actuallv born and actually die ? I have been told

    indeed that this is a great mystery , and that I must believe it without understanding it . That , it is a great mystery I have never denied ., and that if believed at all it must be believed without being understood I readily admit ; but if a mystery I know not what we have ( o do with it , for I read in the scriptures that secret things belong unto the Lord , and revealed things to us : and a revealed mystery is a secret told , or a thing before mysterious opened and made intelligible : nor have I ever been able to find out how to believe what I do not understand .

    After all , I have been warned of the danger of denying the godhead of Christ , but not being able to perceive how any danger can attend the denial of what is incompatible with the plainest facts and declarations of scripture , as welt as contrary to common sense , and being resolved not to be frightened out of the vise of the reason which God hath given me , I go on resolved to bring every thing in religion

    to the test of common sense . Though this paper cannot be interesting to your learned readers , it may be acceptable to those who are unlearned , and if it should be favoured with a place in your valuable Kepository you may expect more in the same way , From the Fens From your constant Reader , cf Cambridgeshire . RUSTICUS .

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    422 Decisions of Common Sense .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/26/