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p ass by the chape ] , Lady Anne made a low courtesy to the feost , at which lady Jane testified $ pme s \ nprise 5 and asked whether the Princess Mary was there ? Lady Anne answeredy 4 No , but I made my courtesy to him who made us all / 4 Why / replied Lady Jane , ' how can that which hath been made by the baker be he who hath made us all £ * This speech of hers , it is said , being carried to the Princess Mary ^ gave her a dislike to the Lady Jane ^ which she retained ever after /*
I am persuaded that no Protestant has ever read this anecdote without applauding the ingenuity of lady Jane Grey 5 which , so far as appears , completely silenced her companion . Yet had Lady Wharton attempted a defence , the disputants agreeing that Jesus Christ , who was supposed to be resident in the host , was both God and man ^ her case would have been by no means desperate . She might easily have shewn that the
distinctioti , howey&r great * between a man liable to hunger and the bread whicb sustained him , wjgislost in a comparison with him who made us all . " Thus the orthodox protestant and the or * jbodox papist were equally justified in worshipping representa- * lioiis of Peity * QX both involved in the same absurdity * „• I remain your ' s ^ Sept . 8 , J S © 7 * LAICU S *
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Mr . JBehhcnn ^ s Strictures on Carpenter ' s Lectures * 5 Sf
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MR . BELSHAM S SfftlCTUKES UPON MR . B . CAUPENTEF ^ S DEFENCE OF ARIANISM IN HIS tECTUR ^ S * LETTER VIII . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
My worthy friend in his seventh Lecture , treats on th « pre-existence and divine nature of Christ . ' * Having ptit tha ¦ question , " Who is Jesus Christ } " p . 152 , he observes : It is a question to which I am not solicitous to give any other answer than \ tfhat Peter gave when our Lord said , Whom say j / e
* Jur . t as I was concluding this letter T happened to look into the Memoirs men * ? ioned in the last note , when 1 found the following passage in a letter from St . Omers , written by Mrs . Carter in 1763 . " On one side of the high altar is a picture with an impious representation of him tohom no man bath seen nor can s * r . Over the head of the figure is a triangle . On another part of the pic ^ e , a dove , and a heart , and crown of thorns . The motto , Five It smre ccsur tie Jesus . " Mem , p- 17 Z . Yet this learned and respectable lady , whose faith is described as truly orthodox , was doubtless persuaded that the Son of man , who while he went about doing i ^ ood , hungered and thirsted , and had not where to lay his head , was arepre * mentation of him , ivhom no man hath seen nor can sce ^ and "whoin the scripture forbids **> to consider as needing any thing .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/29/
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