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Queen of England / has the following passage : •—*< No man speaketh to the prince , nor serveth at the table hut in adoration and kneeling . AII persons of the realm be bare-headed before him . Insomuch ~ that in the chamber of presence , where the cloth of estate is set , no man dare walk , yea , though the prince be not there , no man dare tarry there but bare-headed . " I will not stay to enqube whether " any people ^ even t ' or ^ the useful purposes of' government have a right to placeafrail fellow * creature in circumstances so unfavourable to his moral and intel *
lectual culture . lam sure no re * fleeting mind can envy such a condition of ostentatious solitude and self-sufficiency , as my author has described . The passage was , however , quoted by me for another purpose . It serves to slrew the reader of the scriptures in the common version what .. I fear , his
more learned guides are not always eager to , teach him . No aniitrinitarian can have argued much with such Christians without being triumphantly opposed , at every turn , with passage 3 of scripture describing homage and worship paid to Jesus Christ , which they 'all blasphemous-if ascribed to a
creature , even the most exalted . Yet Sir Thomas Smith who , in conjunction with his friend Sir John Choke , taught ail Cambrid ge'Greek , '* was certainly one ° f the most learned philologists of "is tune , and his language must have formed a standard of
propriety m the age of king James ' s translators . Now , if this author could employ the phraseology I have quoted , to describe merely the reverence paid to exalted civil rank and office in the case of a
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Mr . Carpenter s Valedictory Epistle . 227
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king , one wham the Christian , though not uncourtly , poet describes us a ivorm raised above his
meaner fellow-worms , surely the learned translators of the coin - moVi version , had they been as fpee from , as we know they were possessed by , trinitarian prejudices , might yet have used the
expressions so unduejy appreciated by their readers , concerning him whom they describe , according to the apostle Peter , as a man approved of God , by -wonders and signs which God did by hirnm PH 1 LOLOGUS ,
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Mr . Carpenter ' s Valedictory Epistle . Sir , As I am now bidding farewell
to controvers y , I wish to insert in your impartial Repository , a few remarks and observations of a
valedictory nature . The diversity of sentiments which prevails among Christians gives me very little concern , as I know thai it must be the result of free enquiry . And I am of opinion that even storms and tempests are loss injurious than a dead calm and stagnation . Yet I
am not fond of storms and wish only tor a gentle breeze . A positive and unchristian spirit , whether found in Trinitarians or Unitarians , excites my griff and sometimes my indignation . When I call to mind
the strong expressions which my friend Belsham has made use of , in his letters to me and in conversation with me , in defence of the pre-existence and atonement of Christ , I . am rather surprized at the supercilious manner in which he treaty those who still maintain
these doctrines . I do not blame him for changing his sentiments , but for his want of candour towards those who do not change
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/35/
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