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    have been written against churchauthority , and is consistent with its motto , Non yuis sed quid . Dr . G . had before remarked , ( p . 118 ) 4 * * Tis not very long since a book , entitled the Naked Gospel , was burnt at Oxford ; a book wherein its author did seem somewhat to

    favour the Socinian heresie , and by some expressions obliquely to question our Lord ' s divinity . " For the following information on this subject I am indebted to Wood Athen . Oxon . ( ii . 950 ) under the

    article of Arthur Bury , rector of Lincoln College , Oxford , " aroong whose writings he mentions ** The Naked Gospel , discovering 1 . What wa ? the gospel which our Lord and Apostles preached . 2 , What additions and

    alterations later years have made to it . 3 . What advantages and da . mages have thereupon ensued . Part 1 st of Faith . London , 1690 . 4 * to aid in the title to be written by a true son of the Church of England , and yet in p . 83 , he expressly denies the doctrine of the Church of

    England . —26 th July , ejected from his rectory of Lincoln Colljege by Jonathan [ Trelawney ] Bishop of Exeter . Thereby laying open a way for other miseries to follow on the learned author , certain

    masters of the universities , like valiant Sancho Panchas , endeavoured to make his fall the greater by subscribing tojseveral petitions , by them drawn up , to be given to Ik * vice-chancellor , for further

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    execution to be done for the au « thor ' s writing the said book , " Wood then mentions ic a convocation , 18 th August , " which decreed , 4 C that in the said book , called the Naked Gospel , were certain impitrusan < l heretical

    propositions , repugnant to the chief mysteries of faith in the Catholic church , especially in that of England . " In consequence of a subsequent decree by the convocation , the book was ** publicly burnt in the schools' quadrangle *" Dr . Bury had previously published 4 C An Apology for writing the

    Naked Gospel , of which Wood gives no character , but a

    correspondent of Atterbury , ( Sept- 1 , 1690 . Epis . Cor . i . 6 . ) says " it is sufficiently provoking /' Dr . Bury , however , according

    to Wood , made his peace with the church , and was restored to his rectory , probably as a reward

    for the following , which Wood gives as his last publications . "The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity , placed in its true Light , by an Answer to a late Book , entitled Animadversions upon Dr .

    Sherlock ' s Book . Lond . 1694 . 4 to . The Doctrine of the Incarnation of our Lord asserted and explained /' Dr . Bury might 6 ave taken th « hint of his title from a publication

    by BishopICroft in 1675 , ( B . Brit , iv . 463 ) to promote a comprehen * sion . That was entitled " The Naked Truth , or the true State of the Primitive Church /* VERMICULCS .

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    786 Book-fForm . Ifo . X «?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 786, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/34/