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he was afterwards translated to that of Elphin , where he died a few years ago / ' P . 15 . T 6 the minds of Mr . and Mrs .
Lindsey , the attractions of friendchip were stronger than those of fashion , wealth and power ; and soon after their refusal of the above tempting proposal , they effected the exchange of the living of Piddletown for that of
Catterick , in Yorkshire ; in every rc-Bpect inferior , except in the opportunities which it afforded of cultivating the society of many valuable friends , and particularly of the venerable Archdeacon
Blackburne . [ See Mrs . Cappe ' s Memoir , Vol . VII . p . 110 . ] In the bosom of select society and in the mid *> t of affectionate parishioners , Mr . Lindsey seemed to have
attained the summit of philosophic happiness . He was a finished pattern of a good parish . priest ; And Mrs . L . was the guardian , instructor and benefactress of her
neighbours . But both the retirement and the converse which Mr . JLindsey had courted served to pave the way for the great and , at first , painful change which
distinguished his life : his scruples concerning the worship of the church increased , till at length he relieved his conscience by a voluntary and magnanimous secession from his living , with all its benefits .
He had satisfied himself after his irst doublings , with considering the Trinitarian forms in the lu turgy as " a three-fold representation of the One God , the Father , governing all things by himself
and by his son and spirit , " and under this view had brought himself to subscribe the Thirtynine Articles , on his removal to Catterick . Of this prevalent and specious schemet MrtBelshamsays ,
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" This , which is usually called the Sabellian hypothesis , and which differs only in words from the proper Unitarian doctrine , was advanced by the learned Dr . Wallis , Savilian professor of mathematics at Oxford ; and well received by the
University , in opposition to the hypothesis of three infinite minds , maintained by the celebrated Dr . Sherlock , which underwent a public censure . The professor states his opinion in the following terms , in reply to the objection of the Unitarians , that three persons wers three Gods .
" ' This reasoning , ' says Dr . Wallis , * is grounded on this silly mistake , that a divine person is as much as to say a divinity or a God , when indeed a divine person is only a mode or respect , or relation of G od to his creatures . He beareth to his creatures these three relations ,
modes or respects , that he is their Creator , their Redeemer , their Sanctifier ; this is what we mean , and ali , that we mean , when we say God is three persons . He hath those three relations to his creatures , and is thereby no more three God » than he was three Gods to the Jews , because he calleth himself the God
of Abraham , the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob / See Considerations on the Explications of the Doctrine of the Trinity , p . 7 , 1693 , apud Lindsey ' s Apology , p . 227 . The learned professor might have spared his supercilious reflection
upon the understandings of his Unitarian brethren , whose only error consisted in taking common words in their common acceptation . Is Dr . WalhVs doctrine that which still prevails in the learned University ? If so , the pure Unitarian doctrine it
much more extensively diffused than many of its most zealous advocates imagine . Happy would it be for the cause of truth , if , when error is detected and discarded , tht language of error were discarded with it / ' P . 23 . Note . ( To beeuntinucd . )
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' Review , —Behham s Memoirs of Lindsey . 51
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/51/
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