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and man in that way above all others , that they would prefer a very moderate income in the church to wealth and splendour in any other station .
I am , Sir , A constant reader of the Monthly Repository , X . X *
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
JQaland ) Sept . 16 , 1809 * SIR , If the' ** writer with a terrible name" should not be disposed to reply to your Totr \ ess correspondent I will thank you to insert the following answer to the question , What authority there is for representing Sir Isaq-c Newton and Mr . Locke as Unitarians ?"
In regard to Sir Isaac Newton ^ Mr . Lindsey , in his Sequel , p . 18 19 , says , in a preface to a Collection of Tracts , published in 1705 , by the late Mr . Richard * Baron , that public-spirited writer , after having expressed a high approbation of the sentiment of Christ ' s
humanity , goes on to observe , that Sir Isaac Newton predicted the restoration of this primitive truth , in those memorable words to Mr . Haynes , 6 C The time will come , when the doctrine of the
incarnation , as commonly received , shall be exploded as an absurdity equal to transubstantiation . " To Mr . Haynes ' s name ( adds Mr . Lindsey ) Mr , Baron subjoins this account of him . y Ci' Hopton Haynes , Esq . was author of several writings well known to the
curious . He served manv years in the mint-office , under Sir Isaac Newton , and at the time of his death had a place in the exche r quer . He was the most zealous ^ Jnitari an I eve r knew . And , in a conversation with him oj > that
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subject , he told me , that Sir Isaac Newton did not believe our Saviour ' s pre-existencey being a Socinian ( as we call it ) in that article ; that Sir Isaac much lamented Mr . ( Dr . ) Clarke ' s embracing Ariatrism ; which opinion ,
he feared , had been , and still would be , if maintained by learned men , a great obstruction to the progress of Christianity . " This extract from Mr . Lindsey * s Apology will probably throw some light on ( and the fact asserted in
it will also be confirmed by ) a passage in Sir Isaac Newton ' s own works , in which ^ speaking of the Apocalypse , he says , u As the few and obscure prophecies ,
concerning Christ s first comings were for the setting up of the Christian religion , which all nations have since corrupted ; so the many and clear prophecies , concerning the things to be done at Christ ' s
second coming , are not only tor predicting , but also for effecting a recovery of the long- lost truth !* In regard to Mr . Locke , I know not of any positive evidence the
which c ^ n decide question ^ whether he was an Unitarian or not ; though , jndeed , Mr . Lindsoy ( Sequel , p » 9 . ) speaks of him as having been u exposed to all the cruelties and disabilities" of
the act of king William against denying any 0119 of the persons of the hol y Trinity to be God . When
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346 Sir Isaac Newton and Mr . Locke Unitarians .
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SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND Mil . LOCKE UNITARIANS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/26/
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