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    No , VI . Chaplains . The Scripture owns no such order , no such function in the church ; and the church not owning them ^ they are left , for aught I know , to such a further examining as the sons of Sceva , the Jew * , met witb . Bishops and presbyters we know , and deacons we know , but what are chaplains ?

    In state , perhaps , they may be listed among the upper serving men of some great houshold , and be admitted to some such place , as may stile them the servers , or th « yeomen-ushers of devotion , where the master is too resty , or loo rich to say his own prayers , or to bless his own table .

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    No . VII . Charity . As without charity , God hatTi given no commandment to men , so without it neither can Jnen Tightly believe any commandment given . For every act of true faith , as well that whereby we believe the law , as that whereby we endeavour the law , is wrought in

    us by charity , according to that in the divine hymn of St . Paul 1 Cor . 13 , Charity believeth all things ; not as if she were so credulous ; which is the exposition hitherto current , for that were a

    jr trivial praise , but to teach us that Charity is the high governess of our beliefs and that we cannot safely as&tnt to any precept written in the Bible , but as chanty

    commends it to us . Which agrees with that of the same apostle to the Rpkcs . iv . 14 , i& where he tells us that fcbe way to get a sure undoubted knowledge of things

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    is to hold that for truth + which Htm cords most with charity . Last of all * to ttrese whose mind is to maintain textual restriction ,

    whereof the bare sound cannot consist sometimes with humanity , much less with charity ^ I would ever answer , by putting them in remembrance of a command above

    all commands , which they seem to have forgot , and who spake it . * ; in comparison whereof , this which , they so exalt , is a petty and subordinate precept . Let them go > therefore , with whom I am loth

    to couple them , yet they will needs run into the same blindness with the Pharisees ; let them go therefore , and consider well what this lesson means , 'J will have mercy and not sacrifice ; for on that

    saying all the law and prophets depend , much mote the gospel , ' whose « nd and excellence is mercy and peace : or if they cannot learn that , how will they hear this ? which

    yet I shall not doubt to leave with them as a conclusion ;—That God the Son hath put all other things under his own feet but his commandments he hath left all under the feet of charity .

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    No . VJIL National Church . It is a ruie and principle , worthy to be known by Christians , that no scripture , no , nor so much as any ancient creed , binds

    our faith or our obedience to any church whatsoever , denominated by a particular name ; far less , if it be distinguished by a several government from that which is iudeed catholic * No man was

    ever bid be- subject to the Church of Corinth , Rome or Asia , but to the Church wiihout addition , as it held faithful to the rules of

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    John Milion . 4 $

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/29/