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now became so Violent and heavy upon these people , that they were soon after silenced and suppressed . When it is considered how unchristianly they were treated , and what severities they underwent , one cannot help suspect ing 3 that they were much calumniated , and were far better men than their adversaries , and
that it will appear at the last day , that they were by no means such horrible monsters as our ecclesiastical historians and or ^ fchodox polemics have usually represented them . After iht heroes of orthodoxy had prevailed with the higher powers to condemn Pelagianism , they turned their attention to Britain , which they seemed to consider as the nursery , or fountain head erf that heresy * Missionaries were accordingly dispatched hither from the continent , to purge thecountry from its reputed
pollution , and bring the inhabitants over to the faith of Rome and of St . Austin . It does not appear , as far as I can find , that any change had recently taken place in the faith of the British Christians , or that it had become materially different from
what it was before Pelagius had left them * or even before he was born . Nor does it appear that he had imbibed any new opinions since he had gone abroad , ( at least * not any of the heterodox kind ) , or that he had sent back disciples to disseminate new tenets among his countrymen ; although such ideas have been held out by the generality of ecclesiastical historians _ , ancient and modern . The probability therefore is ^ that the religious opinions of the British Christians and of their countryman Pelagius were the very same : and that any difference found be- *
tween them and the doctrines of the New Testament waa Owing to a tincture of Druidism * which their religion had imbibed ,, from a long intercourse with the votaries of that ancient institution * many of whom had from time to tim $ , become proselytes to Christianity . This conclusion will be strongly corroborated by comparing what have been deemed the principle errors of the Pelagians ^ with the most au- > thentic accounts we have of the Druidical or Bardic System *
and which maybe found in notes to vol . n . of Mr . Edward Williams * s Poems , and in the Preface to the works pf iJifwarch Hen a celebrated hard of the 6 th century * ( To be eontmued . J
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$ 16 Some Account ofMorganty common ^ called Pelag .,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 516, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/8/
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