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must Bishop Horsley have been to presume upon the scarcity of Mosheim ' s book ! And how very cautious ought gentlemen to be lest in their great zeal to proclaim the ignorance of others , they should unfortunately expose their own I I am , &c « T . BELSHAM .
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JOHN MILTON . Unus patronus honce causes satis est , Episcopius . No . XXVI . Petitioning . Petitioning , in better English , is no more than requesting or
requiring ; and men require not favours only , but their due ; and that not only from superiors , but from equals and inferiors also . The noblest Romans , when they stood for that which was a kind
of regal honour , the consulship , were wont in a submissive manner , to go about , and beg that highest dignity of the meanest Plebeians , naming them man by man ; which in their tongue was called Petitio Consulatus . Ami the parliament
of England petitioned the king , not because all of them were inferior to him , but because he was inferior to any one of them , which they did of civil custom , and for fashion ' s sake , more than of duty ; for by plain law ( cited before , ) the parliament is his superior .
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No . XXVIII . Paul . If he himself appealed to Caesar , it was to judge his innocence , not his religion .
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XXIX . Protestant Persecution the warst of all , * j How many persecutions then , imprisonments , banishments , penalties and stripes ; how much bloodshed have the forcers of conscience to answer for , and Protestants rather than Papists ! For
the Papist , judging by his principles , punishes them who believe not as the Church believes , though against the scripture : but the Protestant , teaching every one to believe the scripture , though against the Church , counts heretical , and
persecutes against his own principles , them who in any particular so believe as he in general teaches them ; them who most honour and believe divine scripture , but not against it any human
interpretation , though universal ; them who interpret scripture only to themselves , which by his own position , none but they to themselves can interpret : them who use the scripture no otherwise by his own doctrine to their
edification , than he himself uses it to their punishing ; and so whom hw doctrine acknowledges a true be-
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S 88 John Milton .
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be properly called true strength and nerve ; the rest would be but pomp and incumbrance . Pomp and ostentation of reading is admired among the vulgar ; but doubtless in matters of religion he is learnedest who is plainest .
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No . XXVII .
Plain Writing and Preaching . Having the scripture , so copious and so plain , we have all that can
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/32/
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