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natural love to genealogies and heraldry ; ^ nd that when his thoughts were harrassed with any perplext studies , he left off , and turned to them as a recreation ; and that his very recreation had made
him so perfect in them , that he could in a very short time give an account of the descent , arms , and antiquity of any family of the nobility © r gentry of . this nation /*
The memory of the Bishop was not it is probable so comprehensive as Mr . Threlkeld ' s ^ but it appears fco have been wonderful . In taste the liishop excelled Mr . ¦ T . as much as he fell short of him
in memory ; and in sound judgment he was reckoned in his day to be without an equal . He was Consulted as an able and profound casuist far and near . The unhappy Charles I . made him , by the advice of Archbishop Laud , one of his -chaplains , and advised with him in his difficulties and always
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- ^ , * 5 enera : l arguments in favour of the doctrine of MATE 1 UALISM * 4 »
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1 st . It must be admitted that there is no known impossibility in matter being rendered perceptible ; such a being as man may be sirnply constituted of the dust of the earth : and if it be possible to form such a beinc cut of the dust
of the ground , it is highly probable that he is so constituted : as we cannot conceive of any motive by which the D ( ity would be actuated to superadd any unnecessary principle in the system of fiuman intelligence .
2 nd , An organized system of -matter being rendered capable of perception , is not more surprising
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carried his conscience , as he saufio hear him preach ;—and ( what is more decisive of his eminent wisdom ) the celebrated Mr . Boyle offered him a pension of 50 / . year ( before his elevation to hj s bishoprick ) if he would write cases of conscience for the aood of
posterity ^ The study of casuistry ( notwithstanding Dr . Johnson ' s gibe at it *) produced no ill effect on him ; for he was charitable and generous , upright and conscientious , and diffident and humble
in as great a degree at least , as Dr . Barnes represents Mr . Threl . kc 4 d to have been . Wishing these parallel characters may be often paralleled b y Bishops and Dissenting ministers , 1 am , Sir , EPISCOPVS .
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than that the dust of the ground * should be converted into flesh and Wood , or that the same materials should constitute the beautiful system of vegetation .
3 rd . The exquisite structure of the human frame is so wonderful that we cannot hesitate in ascribing perception to it ; nor can we assign any good reason why the Deity should have constituted
our frames so wonderfully it matter could not be rendered perceptible . 4 th , All the organs of sense arc constituted of matter : every perception of the mind is either
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592 General Arguments in favoitr of the Doctrine of Materialist
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¦• The Doctor with oracular emphasis , somewhere I think pronounces , tb # &o niftu studies casuistry till he wishes to evade his . duty .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 592, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/16/
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