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he made the worlds by his Son Jesus Christ , as being that powerful and living Word of God by whom
all things were made ; and that the Father , the Word , and the Holy Spirit are one , in Divine Being inseparable ; one true , living , and eternal God , blessed for ever .
' « Yet that this Word , or Son of God , in the fulness of time , took flesh , became perfect man , according to the flesh , descended and came of the seed of Abraham
and David , but was miraculously conceived by the Holy Ghost ^ and born of the Virgin Mary . And also farther , declared powerfully to be the Son of God . according to be the Son of Godaccording
, to the spirit of sanctirlcation , by the resurrection from the dead . C 6 That the gospel of grace shouFd be preached in the name
of the Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , being one in power , wisdom j and goodness , and indivisible ( or not to be divided ) in the great work of man ' s salvation .
We sincerely confess ( and believe in ) Jesus Christ , both as he is true God and perfect man , and that he is the author of our living faith in the power and goodness of God , as manifested in his
Son Jesus Christ , and by his own blessed Spirit ( or Divine unctiori ) revealed in us , whereby we inwardly feel and taste of his goodness , life and virtue ; so as our souls live and prosper by and in him . And the inward sense of
this divine power of Christ , and faith in the same , and the inward experience is absolutely necessary to make a true , sincere , and perfect Christian in spirit and life . 4 C That divine honour and
worship is due to the Son of God ; and that he is , in true faith ; , to be prayed unto , and the name of our Lord Jeeus Chtisfc called upon ( as
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the primitive Christians did ) he ** cause of the glorious union or oneness of the Father and Son ; and that we cannot acceptably offer up prayers and praises to God , nor receive a gracious answer or blessing from God , but in and through his dear Son Christ . '' A . B .
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Sketch of English Protestant Persecution .
LETTER VII . Sir , March 11 , 1813 . In a former letter I mentioned the difficulty of separating the influence of sincere , though mistaken religion from statecraft and
priestcraft , in a farther inquiry after English Protestant Persecution . I am , however , disposed to make the attempt , resuming the subject at the death of Mary , who . in
1558 , closed a short reign , religiously cruel and politically inglorious . With Queen Mary fell the Papal ascendancy in England . The Protestant policy which then prevailed has continued to our time ,
employing the faith , the forms and the officers of an established church to the various purposes of the state . These purposes have been by no means confined to the diffusion of moral and religious instruction . The clergy , whether
Episcopal or Presbyterian , will be found , with exceptions eminent as they are uncommon , to have employed their influence to promote the changing and often discordant systems of civil policy , adopted
by the rulers or administrations of their time . While their religious creed was . settled forages , without the toil of examination ^ and required only a subscription ex afiimOy their political creeds have been composed of doctfin * $ suited
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SOS Sketch of English Protestant Persecution * — Letter VII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/24/
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