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yoked his errors , he shotted be deprived of his living . The court was remarkably crowded , during the whole of this extraordinary scene j which will make a deep impression oil many of the spectators , and may perhaps lead not a
few to inquire , on what grounds they inaintain many vulgar opinions ; and thcn . ee lead them to the only source of truth , the holy scriptures , ^ scriptur . , so completely contaminated by the traditions of men , that one is at a
loss to say , which has done the most injury to divine truth , the Pharisees hy their traditions on the old testament * or the Christians by their authoritative and equally licentious traditions on the pew testament . On the following Friday , Mr . Stone appeared « fcgain in court , which was crowded more than before * and he
de-Jivered . in a writing , the purport of which was , that he . was not aware of the antiquated act of Queen Elizabeth , and that he thought himself perfectly justified by his ordination vow , in preaching as he had done ; but he was willing tp . say , that ; he would not offend in like manner against the sict of parliament .
This did not satisfy the court , which insisted upon the venerable preacher ' s denying his doctrine of one God in one person , and , acknowledging one god in jthree persons , and t ^ at Je , sus was one o £ the persons forming the trinity , which " is by the churches of England and Rome pealed God , and declaring that Jesus Av ^ sd t he son of Mary , yv ithotit the aj # t of m ^ . This Mr . $ tone strenuously refused tV do ; but he begged leave not to be misrepresented by this denial , as holding a doctrine , -which had been -wrongly imputed to him . ; for he be-JLieved , and did glory in beJieying , that salvation came through J esus alone , by whose obedience we were saved : and
that eternal life ia the gift of God , through Jesus Christ pur te > rd . Sir W . Scott said , that he had nothing farther to do , and that the Bishop ot JLondop \ vould take his seat , and depiive the , d $ - £ endaiat of his living . The words were scarcely out of h , is kt
, mouth . , when a cry of , Ctear the way \ fpv Jus lprdship'Vwasj heard , and ip entered the Lord Bishop of London , ac' £ 0 n 1 panie $ by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln , and some j other divines in their < - # uU dresses and wigs . The Lord Bishop ; j ? f JUm ^ qn tpok the se ^ t of the itidjgje ,
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who placed himself at * he right hand of the chair , and told his lordship all that had passed . Upon "which , his lord- * ship , without any comment or address to his aged brother , began to read a very long writing , which ended with declaring the old man to be deprived of his living ; Mr . Stone received the sentence with firmness and with a loud ejaculation , The Lord ' s will be . done ! The bishops retired , and soon , after Mr . Stone ' s proctor appealed from the decision of the bishop to a higher , court . . What matter of reflection does not the
whole of this process afford to a serious mind ! The question between the bishop and Mr . Stone will be tried one day at a . more awful tribunal , -when the son' of God himself will be known in his character of judge ! Of the two opinions , that of the Trinity , and that of one only God , the God of Jesus
Christ , one only can be right ; and what * ever may be the opinion of a ' court of frail mortals upon * h is subject , it be * comes every true Christian t © be fully persuaded in his own mind ; and , with * out any regard to human authority or human opinions , to worship'that God only , whom Jesus Christ worshipped , and to whom he commanded us to
address our prayers . The appearance of the bishop' of Lin * coin at this ceremony excited some surprise : but it is to be recollected , that he acted in the capacity of Dean of St . Paul ' s . The language * of this Bishop is as decisively against the articles , as is Mr . Stone ' s ( hough the subjects arc
different . The articles say , that the Athanasian creed ought to be received and believed : and this creed says , that whoever does not believe * it shall perish everlastingly . The bishop of Lincoln asserts the contrary in-his . Elements © f ' 1 neology * saying , in trie second volume * page 2 * 8 , * ' It is utterly repugnant to the attribntes of God , and it cannot . be -joe *
conciied to our ideas of common justice , that a person should be consigned to eternal punislfment , because he did not f > eUeye certain articles of faith , whiefi were never proposed to him , or of the truth of which he was not Qualified to jijdgei * And in another place , page %% n \ his lordship says , ** I cannot but conceive it to be both unneqe » 5 > ary and presumptuous to say > . that , except every one do kc « p them whole and undefined , withoirt 4 oubt he shall j > erwlv cverla ^ tiii g lv . *'
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/48/
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