Current:

Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), January 1814, Edition 1 of 1, Page 9, Untitled Article

Page 9
Page 9
9 of 72

On this page

  • Text (2)

      Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    • Untitled Article

      Untitled Article

    • Untitled Article

      Untitled Article

  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Article

      no preferment without subscript iitmy that I ri ^ ltti et ca » , nor will have any . ** Far Ibis resolution I have but

      < me reasoh against a thousand temptations to the contrary , but fitifr jy pkyoty against which if all l&e little reasons in the world were put in the ballnnce , they would be lighter than vanity . In brief , this it is : as long as I keep that t&otlmt and humble assurance of

      God ' s love amd favour which I now enjoy , and wherein I hope I shall be daily more and more Confirmed ; so long , in despite of all the world , I may and shall

      and will be happy . But if I once lose this ; th 6 ugh all the world should ! etmspire to make me happy , I shall and must be extremely talser&ble . Now this inestimable

      jewe 1 > if I subscribe ( without such & d ^ Mratiori as will make the stibscrtpmm no subscription , ) I shall wittingly and willingly and deliberately tlrrow away . For though f atri verj ^ " well perswadcd ofy&u aticf ttty other friends , who

      w > so with a full persuasion that y ^ ti nifty ' 'do it lawfully ; yet the fefi ^ e staridf so with me , and I can $ ee 116 remedy but for ever it will db so , that if I subscribe , I subsfcriibe Sfrv own damnation . For do

      thoti ^ h I -veri ly believe the ' 0 htirc ! i of England a true mem . ht&t bf the Church ; that she SVfints tfdtliing necessary to salvation , iancJ hd \ ds nothing repugnant to it ; alnd had thought that to

      ihink so , ha ? d sufficiently qualified me for a subscription : yet novy 1 pl&itify see , if I will Dot juggle with my conscience , and play ivfth God Almi ghty , I must for-^> ekk ' ; : i ; " - "

      ^ * Po t 9 to say nothing of crth ^ r things ^ which I li aVe so wdl coti -

      Untitled Article

      sidered as not to be in state to sign them , and yet not so well as to declare my self against them ; two points there are , wberein I am fully resolved , and therefore care not who kno \^ s my -mind * One isj that to say the fourth commandment is a law of God

      appertaining to Christians , is false and unlawful ] : theotheiyt&at the * damning sentences in St . Athanasius ^ s Creed ( as we are made to subscribe it ) are rnost false , and also in a high degree presumptuous and schismaticall . And therefore I can neither subscribe that these things are agreeable to

      the word of God , seeing I belfevij they are certainly fepugfrinrt to it : nor that tbfe whole Common Prayer is lawful to be uSed , seeing I believe these parts of it certainly unlawfuJl ; nor promise that Imy self will use it , seeing I never intend either to read tfte ^ e things which I have itoW ^ xtepted against , or to say Amen to-them . 4

      ' I shall not need to irit ¥ eat you , not to b 3 offeivtfed with ttie * e for this my most honest , ahA ( as 1 verily believe ) mo ^ t wise- resolution : hopeing rattier , you ' will do your endeavaur , that I fti&y neither be honest at so dear a rate , as the losse of preferment , nbr buy preftrmeat at so mnchdearer

      a rate 3 the losse of honesty / 4 C I think rny selfc happy that it ploased God wheri I was Vesolved to venture upon a subscription without full assumnc

      accomplishing my resolution * . Fthr I profess unto you , siiice I entertained it , I haive nt ? ver e ^ ijo ^ yed quret day nor night , till now that 1 huve rid my self df it again ; and

      Untitled Article

      vol . ix . c

      Untitled Article

      Brief Memoir of Mr . Chilltngvoorth . &

  • Citation
    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/9/