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and others against the reformation , and civil liberties of the land ; some short memoirs of the civil wars in King Charles Ist ' s time ; and a distinct answer to the question , Who cut off M the King ' s Head ? "
" The design of this work / says the author , in the preface " is not so much to give a history of the reformation itself ' as of Providence in beginning and defending it ; and this not for the use of the learned and curious ^ but the more common readers , that have not access to larger volumes , nor leisure to peruse them . And if nothing else , the variety of the matter greater than is ordinarily to he found in such a compass , mav '
1 hope , afford entertainment . " The volume extends to 534 pages . * , It is dedicated in a handsome but not flattering address which breathes a manly and liberal spirit ^ to Lord Barrino-ton the celebrated author of the ' * Miscellanea Sacra . " and father
of the present Bishop of Durham- ; as to a gentleman of known zeal for the liberties of his country both civil and religious , and holding a principle of peculiar importance in thecharacter of a legislator , viz . That he was against any laws that would fetter the consciences of Christ ' s disciples , but would leave them in a free and undisturbed subjection to their own master . " His lordship was then a candidate to
represent in parliament the town of Berwick . An opposition was rnade to him , and prejudices were created and fomented against him , on account of the healing part he'had taken , and the pacific measures he had urged in the debates on the doctrine of the Trinity , which were about that time violently agitated in London and in the West of England . ^
The reflections of Mr . Bennet on this subject do much honourto his liberal mind , are just in themselves , and may with propriety be applied to the odium that has lately been cast on some , by the senseless outcry against popery . On thes 6 grounds I am inclined to transcribe them in this connection . * ' The charge of Arianism :, advanced against your Lordship , and so industriously spread in this part of the country , with design to prejudice you in an affair depending , has , I apprehend ,
I wo great faults in it ; it is not true , which 1 can say upon good authority , having heard your Lordship declare , you was in your settled judgment against Arianism : And it is nothing to the purpose , if true ; doth not at all concern the merits of the cause it is broi ^ ght to influence . We do not choose parr liameat men to make or correct creeds , but to be guardians of
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454 Memoirs of the Rev . Benjamin Bennet .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/2/
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