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3 * He believes a virgin to be a mother of a son , and that very sojj 6 f hers to be her maker . He believes him to have been shut up in a narrow room whom heaven and earth could not contain . Me Relieve s him to have been bojfti in time who was and is from everlasting . Jj e fcelieVes him to have been a weak child carried in arms , who is the
Almighty , and him once to have died who only hath life and immortality in himself */ 1 Should these passages , and those before quoted offend , as they can hardly fail to do ^ some pious and considerate minds ^ let them remember that they are not the words of reputed heresy ,
attempting to represent ^ and so liable to the charge of misrepresenting , orthodoxy ; but , on the contrary , the language of or ^ thedoxy representing herself . Protestants have generally agreed to assail , either with sarcasm or grave censure , as the occasion might encourage , those professors of Christianity who , " impiougj eat their God . ' With what consistency the majority of Protestants have so assailed the Papists , I am at a loss to
discover . Give me leave to explain myselFand to end this ** length * cned tale" by offering a remark on a passage in the affecting story of lady Jane Grey , as I find it in ** t > r . Gibbons' Memoirs of Pious Woj £ ie ; V * ' (*• 17 ) - I will quote the whole paragraph . " Lady Jane was early instructed in the principles of the
reformed religion , which she seriously and attentively studied , and ior which she was extremely zealous ^ and this , together with her other excellent and amiable accomplishments ,, greatly endeared her to king Edward . Her dislike of popery , particularly in one of its worst abominations , that of idolatry , was shewn , as it is credibly reported of hi ^ r , when she \ vas very youjig . Upon a visit to the princess Mary at New-Hall ^ in Essex , she took a walk with the Lady Anne Wliarton . Happening to
* «* Works of Francis Bacon . Baron of Verulam , ' * 4 to . 1778 . Hi . 129- Thh passage has , I think , been quoted somewhere in the valuable writings . of the Rer . 2 Dr . Toulmin , to shew the strange representations to which the doctrine of a trinity g ives countenance . I have also seen it a few years ago quoted , with hig h approbation , in ail orthodox magazine , pub I Sshed ill Scotland .
f This mansion is still standing- about 33 miles from London , on the Harwich Hoad . Scarcely any place has been more . variously occupied . New-Hall was forrnerly a seat belonging to the monks of Walthain Abbey . It afterwards became the property of Anne ' JBoleyn ' s father , of whom II enry Vlllth purchased it , and mined it Beaulieu , a hisfavouritcttalace . Here his daughter the princess , afterward * the bloody queen , Mary frequently resided . For a short time Oliver Cromwell possessed it . After the Restoration , Gen Monk purchased it out of the reward of his treachery to the Commonwealth . See Moran t ' s Essex ii . 13—15 . It is nowauaina
jnonastic residence , bcin ^ occnpicd by some nuns who were drivjenfrora IJege during the storm of the French Revolution . It is also a school for the J ^ pmale children of opulent Roman Catholics . w These nuns were probably from the English convent at JLicgc , which Mrs . Gaf ? tier visited in 1763 . Sec Memoirs of her Life , p . 183 .
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531 Trinitarian Paradoxes * h
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/28/
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