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pfetef . < tf the Scriptures ? Oh where , add what , is that iC unwritten ^ word of God , of which she says that she is in possession ? Oral tradition is , surely , more precarious and fluctuating than
that ** dead letter" of Scripture , which , according to Dtf , M . ^ ingenious rhen itiay tiirn as they please . " •¦ Have councils tievef decided Against councils , arid ofie
pope against another ?* Where , then , is the mark of unity and infallibility ? By the favour of aln indulgent Providence , the Scrip . tureB are now laid Open to us ; we niay r £ ad theift in a cbrt ' ett text , and in good vernacular
translations ; " arid the just principles of scriptural criticism are , at present , more generally acknowledged arid better applied than at Lottie former periods . We can ,.
therefore , judge of the Jritei ^ pdelations actually given by the Roihish communion of specific passages in the Bible : and with what « yes are they read by persons , who firid there the characteristic tenets
of this church ? We once more ask , what does she intend by the H uriWritten " word of God ? t { we know hot what it is , how can we ascerMiii the just extent of her authority . We cannot be ignorant that She
has attempted to dictate in rnat * ters purely scientific . Galileo was confined in her prisons for teaching & sound Astronomy ; arid , on niiich tlie same subject ' , tvtd leaflred Jesuit ^ ConimehtatorS on isTewtbri's Prihcipia , t houglit it necessary to acknowledge , iiiuch
** C ^ npbefl on tcc \ & . lB $ t . V 6 l . it 1 ( 5 , 14 . arid Chrrtl . Tab . irt M 60 l fiarti teat particularly tho ^ c of the ffcird an * eighth cetltuHcfe Theife m an admirabie sketch and estimate of the & > ur first general council * , ia Furaeau * * * Letter * Ifr Blackstone , ( ad ed ») 98—105 * ( note . ) f Furneaux , ( as aboi ^ , ) 87 , 88 . ( note- )
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more recently , her parariioutit dominion , f i ) r . M . complains , in ttiotG than one passage , that the
catnolics are injured arid calumniated * ( 6 , 14 , 43 . ) If this be the fact , none . Will more deeply lament it than ourselves i and we shall applaud the right revejencf pteacher ' s dtsire of vindiCatrng his principles and society . Could he have performed this service without
impugning the Protestant cause , our present labour had been spared . We agree with him intninfeihg , that every religious body shotilct be peririitted to state What' tenets and maxirtis it really holds ( 4 & . And though vve could hdve wisheu that he had adduced scriptural authority for the eredlibn of cttiL cifixes , 8 tc . afict for the inV 6 Ca , j fibh of sa : ints we are , a ? t thd same timi £ , scilicitous that his e 5 c-
planafioiis of these practiceis have all the weight which thfcV cart possibly bear . ( 44 , &c . ) Happy should ive have felt ourselves , h&d he been unable to retaliate
tipon . Frotesfahts the eh ^ fge 6 f petstfeution ! ( pp . 10 r 45 . ) The feet , we feaf is , that fieithet tfatholrcs ribr Protestants have always , if usually , persecuted oh grounds merely political . Iii concluding tftis artfete , we
cariridt but express out wif m a * p » probation of soiiie of the reiiiarJts addressed by JDf . M . to the catholic part of his dudienCe . ( 46— . ) And riiOst earnestly desirous ate
we , that the following sentiment , in particular , be deeply ihCYibed
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Review . —Dr . Milner ' s Consetfatioit SetHnon . IgP /
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/37/
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