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"Trinitarian Paradoxes . 5 S 5
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It would however be unjust to the divines I havd mentioned not to connect them with persons of extraordinary reputation ^ among whom they maybe fairly classed upon this bccasion . It was , I believe , an emizient father of the church who uttered that
edifying exclamation , Credo quid impossibile est ; and I think thereisa similar sentiment somewhere in the" Private Thoughts } ** of Bishop Beveridge . Christians have often pitied the deluded worshippers of an infanulama 3 and critics have deemed the wounded gods of Homer an extravagance beyond the licence
even oi poetic hction . Yet the pious and accomplished Watts , before he had put away such childish things , could discover " the mighty God in a babe at themother ' s breast /* as hsis quoted-by your correspondent , p . 355 . During the same daysof his younger assurance" he deplored Mr . Locke's deficiency of faith , because , after applying his ipature judgment to a serious investigation of the scriptures ^ that great and good man could not bear the infant Deity /* and found " a bleeding ; God ^
one of the " thefnes too painful to be understood * . " Bat I cannot forbear to quote upon this subject , that ornameat of our courvtry and our race , whom , excepting an unhappy stain on his judicial purity , both poetry and prose have designated not only the greatest" but also " the wisest of mankind . " Lord Bacon , ivy his theological works , to a very orthodox cc Confession of Faith / ' in which he declares that " the
blessed virgin may be truly and catholicly called , Deipara , the mother of God . " has subjoined a paper from which I shall make a quotation , which will enable me to leave my worthy pld master in good company , or rather to shew that the Rev * John Ryland , in his u extremes and opposites / ' is only a paraphrast of Lord Bacon , in his * Christian Paradoxes ,
"ci The characters of a believing Christian in paradoxes and seeming contradictions . 2 . " He believes three to be one and one to be three ; a Father not to be older than his son , a son to be equal with his Father ; ami one proceeding from both to be equal with both ; he believing three persons in one nature , and two natures in one person .
* See Horas l ^ yrfcas B . 3 d . Watts in a poetical address to John Shute , Esq . afterwards Lord Barrington , on Mr- JLocke * s dangerous sickness , some time after he had retired to study the scriptures , " had called on his friend to catch the mantle of the departing sage . Yet on the publication of Mr Locke ' s Annotations , after his decease , the young zealous polemic ,, instead of doubting a tittle of ail that the priest and the nurse had taught , presently charges the venexa ^ le expositor with having " * ' darkened the glory of the gospel , and debased Christianity . " He however ventures to " invoke Chanty" to < € $ nd him out in heaven , " because he has " reason to believe he was nq Socinian . ' Such are the laws au 4 limits of orthodox free Sr-quiry .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/27/
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