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Through those passages , and from different parts of this * very sensible animated , and valuable discourse , it is evident that the preacher had
given umbrage to some who felt the reflections pointed against high priestly claims , and against the imposition of metaphysical and absurd confessions of faith , as
levelled at themselves ; and who overlooked the sentinjents of ho « . nest faithfulness ^ exalted virtue ^ and of a pure and heavenly temper * which were diffused through the discourse .
The concluding paragraphs of the Preface confirm this suspicion , and show the spirit of the preacher . " To be indifferent to all parties , ' he says , < c 1 am sensible is not the way to popularity or preferment . But I can
truly say , that I desire none of those wages of unrighteousness ; and if for this my conduct I should suffer from the hands of ignorant and furious bigots , though many should sneer at and ridicule my system of politics , yet the poet has furnished me with , an answer : .. ¦ ¦ i Mea
Virtu ^ e tite involvo probamque Pauperiem sine 4 olo , qu » ro . * 41 amidst all the discouragements which I meet with , mankind shall never lose my hearty prayers for their liberty and happiaess . " May , therefore , the time come , when Lhe learning , Virtue , and
usefulness of ministers shall be more regarded than the surplices and mitres which they 'wear ; when the outcries and animosities raised concerning modern orthodoxy and heresy shall cease , and practical holiness and solid goodness become the general
concern of men ; when human creeds and established forms of faith shall be banished from the world , and the interest of the K edcemer and the religion of the New Testament b $ alone contended for . Amen . and Amen . "
In 176 O , Mr . Kiddel gave the public from the press a Thanks - giving Sermon . In 1779 appeared a tract from
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his pen , entitled ct The Inspire tioi * of the Holy Scriptures as * serted and explained , in Three Dissertations ; in which a plain and rational solution is attempted to be given to the following inquiries :
• I- What Scriptures are divinely inspired ? II . In what sense the Holy Scriptures arc so ? And III , What proq /* we have of it ?> v
Some of the principal parts of these Dissertations had been deli * vered in the form of a sermon before the assembly of ministers at
Exon ; and the publication of it was requested . The author judiciously preferred giving the sub . ject a more full discussion than the limits of a sermon allowed .
These Dissertations met with much approbation , and Dr . Kippis has ipserteci them in the references to authors , with which he has ijn * proved the third edition of Dr . Doddridge ' s Lectures . Our
author ' s leading principles were , that the end odf the divine inspiration of the sacred writers , in their compositions , was , that what was written by them might be kept free from all error and falsehood ;
contain nothing but pure , genuine , and unadulterated truth s and be received and believed as of infallible certainty 5 sealed and attested by the authority of God ; that whatever influence was sufficient to answer this end * was
sufficient to answer all the purposes of a divine inspiration ; that the same degrees of influence are not necessary # nd expedient to all the sacred writers alike ; that , therefore , divine inspiration , whea
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2 r 6 Memoir of the Rev . John Kiddel .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/4/
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