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; i £$ & Will Admit . As to those texts , sentences , and words in a translation ^ about which ledrned men have disputed , do dispute , itntl itl which theTe is no agree , roent , if the unlearned cannot
judge 6 ftheir respective reasoning , I ^ Ao \ v no Reme dy for it , but they rtitt ^ t remain uncertain which is the true translation * No doubt , they vnUX h ^ Ve a greater regard to
the judgment of some than of others , Recording to the opinion 0 efy histSe entertained of them , or as they ^ re possessed in their favour . Borne few will give the pre .
fe r ^ Ci * according to the reputatioli tjfehpersons they prefer have acquired for ability , faithfulness ^ and skill in such things , of Whatever communion they are ; but
orainarily , party-zeal chuses the Rab | bi # Thus , the followers of t / alviri Airmittius , &c , are ready to attend to the ipse dixit of their leader * . It ought not , surely , to be made a question , whether the Bishop of Bangor or Dr . Hafe
Imterprets scripture best , or reasons best ; and yet 1 am afraid it would be a compliment to their respective adherents to suppose thatahy thing else ( with many of them ) determined their' suffrage oh this side or that , but the honourable
argument , He ' s of our party . This is the common case even among pro test ants . Men ait ; trained up in this or that scheme ( Which , to be sure , is the ' analogy of faith ! ' ) and then he that iatetprets scripture according to
that scheme is a sound man ; he ia therefore orthodox , although lie most grossly perverts a hundred
texts to drag tbein into the service < $ ; his scheme . And thtis we have ^ uite t $ rgot the vofcte frbin he * , iren , Tins is my beloved son , hear ye him . "
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Will you Wtitef affo # u ibott quotation 1 ' rrrttt ikhother bttf book almost as little kiiown or read } the " Memoir ^ of British Ladies /* by the eccentric , but shrewd author of the Xiife of John Buncle .
Esq . \ i 4 As to your argtiment , that there are a thousand things in the world whicli We are not able to comprehend and yet believe them , this is a mere sophism * What I
cannot comprehend I believe nothing about . What is beyond my understanding cannot be the object of my faith . I might at well pretend to s ^ ee what is beyond my eye ^ siglit . V u That matter gravitates f and and that a mind informs the hu .
man frame , I l > elieve j because my reason and sen&es convince me that this is the truth of the case , But how gravitation is ^ perforiiied ^ or how mihdjicts upon itiatterj I know not ; and believe nothing
at all about it . 4 4 That a supreme Spirit , wh 6 is the Universal Fattet , should , ffom the hi g hest ilegjree of ! ov ^ send a divihe ^ irieysrehger to savfe
the world , bjr enfdrdtig the laws of reason , and bringing his rational creatures to eternal glory , I can believe ; because irty reason tells me that it i $ ajgreeAble to the attributes of ( Jod . fittt that this
on& Supreme Spirii consists of thtee Spirits , minds , or agent ^ equal in power arid all p ossibfc perfefction « i as yoil tell nie , Ithis
is quite beyond my Comjireliension , and I believe nothing about it . — It appears likewise t 6 my reason impossible . In the list j ilact * itis not in my Bibk ; *— Memmf-s of Qritnh Ladi& s Vol . i ; p ; lOO . ^ With every good wish flbf the success of your Miscellany ; and that it may be eminently instil
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158 ^ r ; -- On Believing without Ideas . [
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/30/
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