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      at least ( too pfetsons * * -in . the God - head , the one satisfied , the otirer satisfying ' . ' * And , in another pl&ce > instead of stating- a trinity as indispensable ^ he . aifmits to John Snaith , ( p . 172 ) that ¦ ? - * -were there

      bqt one person truly God ^ aa infinity ' altaighty , and most wise Bei'tigf ' ihsLtivne person so qualu fied ,. would be , as this man saith , as sufficient to all the purposes' of thie Godhead as ten thousand 3 eitye& ; * Dr . G . indeed ,

      appears , dnee , to have been not fajs&om ' * the simplicity that is in 43 Srrist , " in the following passage ^ ( p . 144 )* ' allowing for a few unscriptXiYal qualifications in i ( alidi ¦' ¦ ¦' »*

      — Our" blessed Saviour , as he wc& > fri ( m increased in wisdom by degrees ^ -as other men do ; yet at a f 8 * higJter ~> rate , and far greater mogisUFe si y ^ vtibt so asr to become orrfifisfcient ; to the particular day and hoar of the last judgment was con&fai& $ tfrom his hiitmcm soul ,

      nor wa ^ there « aoy need / that i t shotii * be fev ^ aled to him as man , bec ^ u §^ k % as ^ tM > part of that doctrift&f wftereih ^ e was to instruct the * % & * teh > it Was enough that ChrtelJ ti $ wkxri ) was furnished witfrto ^ iHich knowledge , as etiabled-hitri to reveal the whole will

      of © 8 d , tb inst ^ lict hi » church , to « ol ^ fe ^ li ^ i doubts , to confute all err&rfcy ad' 31 b understand the very hefiriTs ^ alid thoughts of men . ^ Stieh . is thfe' best account of the co mposition of Dr . Gregory ' s tC Divin ^ -AtitM ' ote ^ which I am bhle

      to gfafe . 'iThbsfe ^ vho wish pursu ^ ttTe aiibjeet fd rther than either incilhation : or leisure will carry mev ^ ftiiy * ftnd the volume in the ? ahlcibre librAty ^ of Dr . Williams . I att * sift p * Mea Mm . ^ Mw Dq dson r some other Unitarian , never

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      diseo \^ ered it , ~ as ^ at p . ? 45 ' of thfel Oatalo ' gu ^ the w ^ o rk is thu ^ described . ^— " Gregory ' s ( Fran . ) ' Antidote against a Devilish Poyl son , in answer to John Sroitfu 16 § 6 . I am not aware that I

      have misrepresented Dr Gregory ^ and I cannot forbear the remark , that if such was- the force of argu > - ment wielded by a learned Trini- ' tarinn , it is no wonder that the Trinity should soon require to

      b&supported by the argument of force . This was obtained in irjJJSy under the specious form of ah " Act for the more effectual suppressing blasphemy and profaneness . " This Act , as is wMl known , is just repealed by gene rat consent , as it concerned Unitarian

      Christians ; though unbelievers are s * till denied their rights as ckizens , while Christianity is encumbered and discredited by an affected support from the civil inagis- ^ trate ! HoW superior to chUrchstatesmen and state-churchineW

      does Lardner appear on this sub-L ject , ThatenligHtefied Christian , speaking of A ugustine ' s disc vtssfon ' ^ ; wii'h some Pagtfns of his time ^ adds , ( W . ix . 188 ) "ittfcisfreedor ^^ of debate had still continued , arid " - * been openly allowed and ehebu- "

      raged , and the arguments for Chris * tianity had been- proposed witb ' mildness :, it would have been ho- ' nourabfe to the Christian religion , and its further progress would have been more advanced than by any external force and violence whatever . "

      I will add here , that Dr . Gregory mentions incidentally , ( p . ^ 9 3 ) as ** a lute Socinian book , A Letter to the Reverend Clergy of both the Universities ? ' Of this book I know ft&tliittg except- the li&le * there mentioned . It appears to

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 785, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/33/