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      ewered if We so far impregnate them with the spirit of this divine writer as to quicken them to the desire of conversing with him in his immortal works . EDITOR .

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      a life beyond life . "Tis true , n « age can restore a life , whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth , for the want of which whole nations

      fare the worse . We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men , how we spill that seasoned life of man , preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be

      thus committed , sometimes a martyrdom ; and if it extend to the whole impression , a kind of massacre , whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life , but strikes at that ethereal and sift essence , the breath of reason itself , slays an immortality rather than a life .

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      No . III . Calvin . We have lookt so long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin hath beaconM up to us , that wg are stark blind .

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      No . IV . Catholic Faith . Nothing can be to us catholic or universal in religion , but what the Scripture teaches : whatsoever without scripture pleads to be uni . ver 9 al in the church , in being universal is but the more schismatical . '

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      No . V . Roman Catholic . Whereas the Papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic , it is a mere contradiction , one of the Pope ' s Bulls , as if he should say , universal particular , a Catholic schismatic .

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      ? S John Milton .

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      No . I . Acts of Grace . He [ Charles I . ] twits them [ the Parliament ) with his " Acts of Grace , ' * proud and unself-kaowing words in the mouth of any king who affects not to be a God , and such as ought to be as odious in the ears of a free nation . For if they were unjust acts , why did he grant them as of grace ? If just , it was not of his grace , but of his duty and his oath to grant them .

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      No . II . Books * Books are not absolutely dead things , but do contain a potencie of life in them , to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they

      are : nay , they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them . 1 know they are as lively a-nd as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragons

      teeth ; and being sown up and down , may chance to spring up armed men . And yet , on the other hand , unless wariness be used , as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man , kills a reasonable creature ,

      God ' s image ; but he who destroys a good book , kills reason itself , kills the image 6 f God , as it were in the eye . Many a man Jives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life - blood of a ma 6 ter-spirit , imbalm-# d and treasured up on purpose to

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/28/