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quires to be framed in more pre - cise terms ; for we know , that even the light of reason and of day may be misapplied . *
On the reformation from popery , the minds of men acquired an elasticity proportioned to the heavy pressure which had long lain upon them . This was still more the case in Germany * than in our own island . No wonder
if , in such circumstances , some persons made an ill use of their lately recovered liberty . Their excesses furnish a strong argument against spiritual ignorance and usurpation , but none at all
against the characteristic principle of Protestants . Nor , as we conceive , is Dr . M . correct in every part of his historical statement under this division of his discourse , fle speaks , for
example , of one David George having been " . emulated , " in his blasphemies , * by our enthusi - astic countrymen , Hacket , Thacker . Copping , and several others , -who suffered death for the same . "
The case of Hacjket , we acknowledge , is appropriately brought forward : f Thackerand Copping were men of very different character from his ; nor did they suffer at the same time , or on the same
account , but were condemned for a political offence , and were believers in the doctrinal articles of the church of England , and persons of unblemished lives . J In answer to Dr . M / s accusations against the early Quakers , we content ourselves with
refer-* Mosheim , Eccles . Hist . vol . £ ^ 313 , 314 . and Robertson ' s Hist , of Charles V . vol . iii . 53 j &c , ( ed . Glasg . ) f NeaVs Hist . Pur . vol . i . 46 * , 463 . ( Toulmin ' s ed . ) I Ibid , 341 , 34 a . Dr . M . perhaps , confounds Thackcr suftd Coppiirg with Afth \ ngton and Coppinger . ( Neal , vol . i . 462 . ) $ Ncal , iv . rjijij * . ( Notes . )
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ring to some of the notes of the editor of Neal ' s History of the Puritans . § A service has there been performed , which enlighu ened and candid minds always feel satisfaction in rendering ; and that justice , in which Neal and
our author have , inadvertently , been defective , is at length exer * cised to a respectable society . Concerning the numerous body of Christians who pass under the name of Methodists , and of whom this writer intimates , that they
profess to be guided by a special revelation , it is notorious that they avow a supreme attachment to the Scriptures , and disclaim the imputation of embracing and teaching antinomian doctrines . It is with no pertinency that he adduces them in illustration of the
evils of the rule against which he is contending . The . followers of Zinzendorf , of Swedenborg , and of Joanna Southcott ^ he has a
right to consider as pretending to a private revelation ; but , after all , how small is the space which these occupy in the religious world ! ( 19—25 . )
The reverend prelate next addresses himself' * to those who profess to be guided j in matters of religion , by the written word of God , the Bible alone , as interpreted by each person for himself / ' ( 25 , 26 . )
And here , although he observes , ** far be it from me to say a word in derogation of the bible , " he appears to consider the Holy Scriptures as of subordinate importance .
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138 Review . ' —Dr . Mtlners Consecration Sermon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/34/
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