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    ment ik $ W&tory of the iiqposter Cyhrist . Tk » t fa& said Mooe * was the baiter # l * ist , and itbe 4 > e £ fcer pdtiiician ; and he preferred JVf a * hetatet to Christ . TW the Holy

    Scriptures mere stuffed wuh ** cA madn&Si nonsense , and contr&dic tiaf& i that he admired the stUm pidity of the world in being so long delude 4 by them . That he

    rejected the mystery of the Trinity as unw . ort \ yy of refutation ; and scoffed at the incarnation of Christ , sayiqg , C&a £ a Thtanthropus , ox Godipan , was as great a contra diction as a kirc ^ cervus ^ or goo&r

    stag , or that a qugdrptum was a roimndum . That he laughed at the doctiiae of redemption . That lie said the notion x > f a spirit . was a contradiction . Thai he cursed Christ , and argued against the

    Jbeing of God , j&aki £ aitting , i > 4 o / £ ?<> u £ , * ie World 9 mid Nature , arp all one thing ; and ihat the world -existed froaa all eternity , 29 iat Jxe said thfe myje ^ tors pf the scripld he

    tural dQctnne ^ w oju damned , iftfoere teas such a thing as re ~ mates' or tfwisbwtmis after this life ; a « 4 ti ^ it . dbristianity ifoelf w / obIcI soon he e «| tirpated . That bWihimety was so andacktus , that .

    a » te passed by ihe T ? & } neChurch , in st feoldi « igbti hie said to a compatti bjj , Jie ofimd wish , to warm hirti ^ f in the place Esnra called te& ; and Imtfy , that h # oft ^ ti u ^ ted these or the li ^ e spe eches within tbeilastliiwelveniojUij , sva ^ h .

    out op&dYdcaitiofi ^ and mer ^ jky from maltoe a ^ ainBt ijG o ^ aad Ch rist . . . ** Tfee C ^ urt ib ii ^« di the r ailing aga ^^ t , - or ^ pttFsin ^ ay of iiie Txinit ^ Wife vaa t ^ ip& ^ the p ^ ins M de * m * i liiid thWoiiier ^ $ ime » ^ e )<« want to ipfer aaaribi < rary pupWfa-^ No co unsel appewed £ pr ^ he

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    prisoi ^ er ; fe <* r does U seem th ^ U : one w # rd w ^ s w ^ ged in bis behalf during the course of the trial . ' Four ojf five witnesses wer « exanaiaed , oneof thjem a writer in Edinburgh , the r , efit « t \ idents at the University , lads from 18 or 20 to 21 years of agie . They proved most of the articles of the libel * with this

    addition , that the prisoner said , he ma ^ cojofident Cbristiantiy would be utterly extirpated by the year 1800 . There was however a material defect ij > t ^ e evidence . The article _ mpst highly criminal , vi ^ b . the railing against Opd and curing

    our Saviour , < was not proved at ^ alj , butxwas an inference dr&wtt by the J » ry from the prisoficr * ^ cursing Ezra , and saying , that the inventors of the scriptural doctiines would be damn ^ ed ^ if there be stl € li ¦

    a thing as damnadon . - ' r ? * f The jury u » animoudy fotind ihe prisoner gujtey of ratfirtg agaiwt -G . od ^ nailing at and cursingdutfst , . and jof the whole other articles m

    the Irbel . The verdict ^ vas *^^ turned And sentence pronounce ! against the prisoner on Christmas eve * fc To be daken to A # < $ « dloW . J ^ ee , on the jKh of January ^ *> etweeo ihe hpur&of twoandfour in

    jthe afternoon , and t& be hafig ^ d ; hi * body to be turned at the f& of th » gaWows , and his ¦ tn 0 ^ ttbte estate to be forfeited / M - -r The compiler of this cdH ^^ etion abaei » ves ^ that ^ five persons sum . moncd on tW jury cfeMfetfi to attend . ^ He adds , alter several

    just and liberal remarks , ** Mejr $ f *** & t&tepi * s usrft w 5 u ^^ e ftnd SiGienee ; 40 the dreadful iep . Office was ^ x ^ culed # P ^ It is indeed sy ^ y difficult to give credit td 611 Ihe ^ oj ^ rfd eh 3 # g < J ^ j ^ arite t JtHctn - head . Several passages appear itkp malicious distortions of rash

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    F&j ^ ui&comf Thomns AikmUad . j 79

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/31/