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in the Design of Encouraging Youn ° " Men in their Studies for the Ministry / ' From the close of the Dedication , which is dated Deptford , Dec . 25 . 1738 , it
appears that Dr . T . was their tutor . This circumstance is not mentioned by Dr , W ., though it easily accounts for his having been appointed creed-tnaker to \ he King ' s Head Society , nor was any thing more natural than that he should
abridge his own " large and elaborate confession of faith'' for the purpose . This divine appears to have been well acquainted with the
theological system he was thus appointed to uphold . He was a very skilful steersman who could sail along the narrow strait of Calvinism escaping Scylla and yet avoiding Charybdis . As
dangerous rocks on one side , he points out 4 the several scheme ? of Pelagius , Episcopius , Arrninius , Dr . Wotton , Mr . Baxter , and Monsieur Amyrauld , some of which detract more , and others less from free grace . On the other side Antinomianism , denominated the
u rude and ignorant blasphemy , that good works are not necessary to salvation / 5 traced up to Simon the Magician , of Samaria . " ( p . 11 . ) By an adroit interpolation in the account here given of Simon , from Jreneus , those Gentlemen of the
society , who might not read the learned lansua ^ es , would be left to regard it as an opinion of remote Christian antiquity , that the Magician had " laid tiie foundation for the Sabellian " and also " laid
down that which is the quintes - sence of the Arian heresj 7 . ' ' Nor does some skill in the composition of ihvfrus pia i an article so early known among Christians , detract
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from a theologian ' s qualfications for a creed-maker . On the same side with Antinomianism , though it seems without knowing whither they had wandered , Dr . T . discovers , ( P . 14 )
" some who set up for the onlytrue gospel . preachers , for the generality raw and illiterate men , who deny that Christ is to be
offered to sinners ; who stand up for the operation-doctrine in opposition to the offer-doctrine *" He adds , referring , I suppose , to Mr . Hyssey of Cambridge , " their odd fancy was started about SO
years since , by a gentleman of a great deal of rambling learning , but of a confused head , a person of real piety , but who discovered so much pride and wrath in his writings and conduct that it is hard to account for it except we
allow that he had a tincture of enthusiasm . " In the commencement of his address , ( p . 4 . ) considering Ce the growth of Arianism and Arminianism , " Dr . T . declares " the danger from that quarter very great . ' He however is alarmed by u danger from a different quarter , ' * from fears of Antinomianism making a progress among such as profess themselves friends to free sovereign grace . " Of these at the close of his Address ( p . 36 . ) he speaks in the following unfavourable terms : u There are not among them , so far as I know , any three that can be said to have so much as a little smattering of learning , men who in their youth were engaged in laborious , or at least secular
employments ; they have run out to preach , as soon as they fancied they had what they stile the inward call , and whenever they met with the outward call , they
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Account of a Pamphlet by Dr . A . Taylor ; 405
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/21/
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