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] opcd m a midaigbt darkness . The God of nature , to restrain the pride and vanity 6 f pan , while hc £ places the book oj knowledge bcfofd himV suffersjiim to unfold only , a few leaves at a time , and lyifeentke inquisitive mind has read
aii ^ meditated upon them for a season , he directs the attention of his offspring to a , different part of it and ^ ometimei ^ for such has been his -. inscrutable decree , be closes it entirely before them . J . W .
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^ To the Editor of the Monthly ^ Repository .
Catbonedr , Newfoundland , 8 thJune . 1810 .
^ / SIR , .: ¦ . - :. .. - - .. The following paper is transcribed from an Irish publication , which accidentally .-fell in my way 4
lately , entitled ^ > The Gentleman ' s and London Magazine , for November , 1777 . ?> Though the event to which it refers happened so long . ' nsfly the nasture of its cow
tents makes it ever interesting , and points it out , in my opinion , as peculiarly worthy of a . place in your Miscellany . J know nothing more of Dr . Maty * s history than
this paper discloses ; but it is probable , some of yi ? Tir re&clers may haw it in their powtr to communicate information that would be
v&liiable on the subject ; and it will be a high gratification to me , to find that the trouble I have taken in extracting and transmitting it td you , produces , through the medium ^ f youV publication , sp . igood frri effects ..- ' •; . Ia * ithis remote part of the globe , xyitffcre ttio ; majority of the inhabitants are iu communion with the
cjuuen , ^ t Rome , a ^ d , where all sjto so btr ^ iJy occupied in what are ^ 1 le ^ the aft&irfe ol ; the \ vorl d as tiS j&q ^ e jU'tt' ^ time far tlbieoipgical '¦• ¦¦"•* . ¦ - ¦ ¦ * " '
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or literary investigation * it cannot be expected that the Monthly Repository should meet with many readers . lean , however , inform you , that it is known here , and would fain hope , that it may not be without its use .
lam , SSir ^ Your humble servant
X EL 3 ON . JDr . Maty * * jfeasohj for separating from the Established Church * BrUUhMmmm * Oct . 0 , % ^ 1777 . I should neither have withdrawn myself from the ministry of the Church of England , nor have troubled the public
with my reasons for so doing , if I had not thought myself obliged to both . I trust * therefore , that both the step itself and this account of my motives for taking it , will be treated with candour .
As a Christian , thoroughly satisfied with the evidence , and deeply solicitous about the success of whatever had a tendency to promote the cause of Christianity , I ^ thought myself called upon to
study the controversy about subscriptions . Thd following is an account of tjhe effect $ hat study has had upon i » y mind , which I offer as a vJndteatioa at my own conduct only , and hope it will be accepted as such .
I have jro objection to subscriptions in general to articles of faith , which , wotwith > ta « dinK what has been urged against them by Burnct , tfee masterly a u tit or of the Confessional , and othe * s > seem to me both lawful and expedient ; all the arguments that have keen broug ht
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442 Dr . Maty s Reaso n ? for Dis&nt .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/18/
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