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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Birmingham ^ sir , 5 th April , 1808 . You will give me leave , through the channel jof your interesting Miscellany , to inform your correspondent S . P . in the last Number , p . 142 , 143 , that « The Life of Socinus , " which is in his
possession , is a translation of the identical biographical memoirs by the Polish Knight Przipkiu covius , which first suggested to me the design of writing the memoirs of that singular man .
The translator was Mr . Jojint Biddle , the . father of the English Utilitarians . The initials of his names , J . B . are , S . P . will find on inspection , subjoined to the Preface . I have a copy of it bound up with Mr . Biddle ' s
Catechisms and his other Tracts . Among these is a translation of a Tract by Joachim Stegman , a German Unitarian , , afterwards Princi pal of the University at Racow i entitled « Brevis Bl » -
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This discourse was published , and the occasion of its publication refutes the above statement , for it appeared in print in consequence of having given great offence at the time of delivery .
I point out these errors , Sir , not as belonging to any party , but from a love of truth and correctness , and from a wish to see an excellent work ( which I believe Mr , Nicholson ' s to be ) freed from these little blemishes . . I am , A GENERAL READER .
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cirssio : " . or a Brief Inquiry touching a better way , that is commonly made use of to refute Papists and reduce
Protestants to a certainty and unity in Rei-icion . " This piece was also printed for Richard Moon . At the end of it is a " Catalogue of Books sold by Righ ard Moon , at the Seven Stars , in St . Paul's Church Yard / 7 This
circumstance , I conceive , is a strong presumption , if not a direct proof , that there was such a person as Mr . MQon , a bookseller . To this be it added , the minute , descri p *
tion of his residence , as near the great North-door of St . Pan ft Church . He was also the publisher of several other Tracts that came from Mr . Biddle ' s
pea . It appears , however , as S . P . remarks , that the friends df free inquiry in those times , wtteo under a necessity of adopting * ' expedients Xo preserve theftjL selves from the animadverwons of
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JDr . Toulmin , on the " Life of Socimis . " ' * 301
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Unitarians amongst them some believe in the miraculous conception of Jesus by the Virgin Mary .
This latter point indeed is quite distinct from Unitarianism . Dr . Lardner received the popular doctrine , and yet no one will deny that he was an Unitarian .
The mistake may have arisen from a sermon preached before the ( Jeperal Baptists at their Annual Assembly a year ago , by Mr . A . Bennett , in which , after Mr . Stone , he endeavours to prove that Jesus was the son of Joseph .
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DE . TOUIMIN , QN THE 5 * LIFE OF SOCINUS . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/9/
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