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the Unitarian mode of establish * ing that revelation which records Ins declarations on this Jiead . For this I have already assigned jntt
Reason ' s under the first head . On the last head , of optimism , I have nothing to kdd , having anticipated the subject under the second . To Mr . Allchin ' s sensible remarks on th-e difficulties which
attend the schemes of , Deism and Atheism I have nothing to oppose , as I am fully sensible that diffU cuitics press upon every scheme which the jnind of man can contemplate ; but this admission , if
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MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION OP THE VIRGIN MARY .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
str , October 3 , 1808 . Permit me to occupy a few lines of 3 our very valuable and interesting miscellany , in the correction of a mistake which has
crept into the ** Monthly Retrospect of Public Affairs / ' in your last number . The base superstition of the
Spaniards ijn general , * md the intolerance displayed by one of their provincial Juntas in requiring a subscription by all their members of their , belief in the miraculous
conception of the . blessed Virgin , is very properly lamented and reprobated . But the author of the passage referred to , has inadvertently allowed to this same Junta
much more credit than-it deserves , by supposing that the required confession of faith , relates to the miraculous conception of Jesus Christ ; an opinion , which
whether erroneous or not , is clearly affirmed in those introductions to
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the gospels of Matthew and Luke , which are as yet retained in all our versions of the New Testament . Whereas the dogma selected by this public body as a test of Spanish patriotism , refers
not to the conception of Jesus by his mother , but of Mary by her ' s . A dogma , the very existence of which may perhaps be new to most of your readers , although it has at various times excited bitter contentions in the Romish church , and particularly among the Spanish adherents to that
communion . In proof of which , I need only quote the following passage from Mosheim . " Veius Dominicanorum et FraJ&ciscanorum rixa Utrum sine vitro ct labe Mater Jesu Christi concepta sit ,
necne ? ( quorum hoc Dominicanis placet , alter Franciscanis ) multum negotiiet moiestij © Pauld v # Gregorio xv . ct -Alexandra vii . exhibuit . Cotpit ea lion d * u
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350 Miraculous C * * ttpUon of the Virgin Mary .
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mysteries , the church of England her mysteries , the Deist his mys , teries , tbe Atheist his mysteries , the irrational Dissenter his mysteries , and the Unitarian . his myste « ties , I contend for nothing beyond
universally made , completely establishes my object in this corres * pond en ce . The Xtomau Catholic has his
this . If any sect therefore , in contempt of , others , have called itself tfLtional , let it cease its arrogant pretensions , and I am sa . tisfied . A CHURCHMAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/26/
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