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TPhis is rather strange , < a £ ; he was a convert to the dissenters ; hut he was more attached ipeobjt&ly , tt > individuals among theia , than to their principle . l"he children cof such dissenter ^ 'as rfor as I -ha ve observed , us ^ iily slide by degrees into conformity . Dr . PercivaPs eldest son ^ entered the church of
England as a clergyman , but ** previous to his final decision / ' he seems to Jisive / eU some of these scruples ^ bo # t ^ subscription to articles of fa * 't& , which-usually start tip in the mind . of an intelligent , ingei ^ uous jouth , but which
few are troubled with f \ ftor having imbibed th * easy maxims of our colleges . These . scruples had detained his father , in early life , -from entering himself at Oxford , The youHg- « n » il * s > coBScietr
to enjoy tjjie authors * personal , and more . ample f < apstruetiaiis . ' ' Accordingly , Dr . Percival wrote to Archdeacon ^ atey , June 20 , 373 $ , statijng and enforcing his son ' s desire . The letter . be , low is
Paley ' s suaswej . O £ the ja rguments . GOfitaiued in it I . shall $ ay nothing : it As < sl theological tctfri * osity , atfid as such your corre - spondents will , no doubtj # gree ia valuing it , with , sa a , Your humble Servant , EP 1 SGOPUS ,
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Carlisle , Junt %$ y X 7 8 . jl desire you to accept my thi * nks for
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rtfce" many obHgteg expr « s * iiftn * of jre ~ spect which your letter jppntftms * H the state of my engagements had allowed me to spare a few weeks to a personal conference with your son , upom any subject of doubt which he should chaftcc
to propose , it w « uld have been a pleasure to me to have complied with your wishes , from a sense both of private ob * ligation and of public esteem . As my time is at present very little in my awa . power , and niy being at home very uncertain * 1 know not how I can contribute
to your so 11 * 8 satisfaction in any better way ^ llian by sending you a few additi--onal explanatory observations upon what . I have written in my chapter entitled « Of Subscription ^' 1 st . If any person understand and believe all the several propositions in the thirty-nine articles and in the liturgy
and homilies which they recognute , there ean be no place for doubt . ad . If a person think that every such proposition is probable , or as probable as tfee contrary , or any other suf > poskiQ » on the subject , there can be no just causa
: © f scruple . 3 dL If a person , after using due in-> quiry , understand some of the propositions in the thirty-nine articles , but not all , and assent to those propositions which he does understand , I think he
may safely subscribe . 4 * h . ft a person think any part of -the discipline , government , rites , or wor *» ship of . ^ he church of -England * to be forbidden , he certainly ought not to $ & * . scribe ; but certain parts' of these being not commancled , or not the best possible , or not good ^ nd usefulr or not reasons able ( far * muny things may be ajwur ^ d and
yet very innocent ) is not , in my opinion ., a sufficient ground of objection . 5 th . If there be certain particular pro--pt ) sitions in the Svrticlcsy which he disbelieves , although he assent to the main part of them , as weH as to the lawfulness of th « established government and 'worship of the church , then arises the case in whicn , the principal dQficulty * consists . And ad to ' £ hj 9 <* ase , I find no reaBon , upon much reconsideration , to question the principle
? Thomas Basnistt Percival B , was educated at Sc . John * s / college , Cambridge , took th c degree of L . 3 ^ . . and was or 4 ainc 4 % y the bishop of Chester in * ty § % and about the same & « ne made ^ chaplain t 6 the Marqius of Waterford , Mid curate of WinwickJin LancAsWffu In 179 a he left England for Peterehurgh , as chaplain « othe British factpry In that city . He 4 icfl , much rogrettfd , I ^ taY a ^* . . ? f $ Pr *» tV 3 * d yea ** of his age . He published a Discourse oil Hospital Duties , which was annexed to his father ' s treatise oh *? Medicfcl Etbies / ' v
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Archdeacon £ * &ley * $ Letter on Subscription . GT
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/11/
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