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lasting institutions , * ' instead of w temporary provisions or expe * , dients . You will probably agree with me that the reformation of
our criminal code is here postponed ad grace as calendar , or as the phrase has been freely rendered , to latter lammas , or never . Yet , I trust our Montagus and Itomillys will not cease to deliver their own souls . N . L . T .
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Mistake in the Obituary of Mrs Parkes *
Essex-Street , Feb . 7 , 1814 . Sir , If the excellent lady , of whom
so interesting a memoir is given in this month ' s Repository , believ . ed that I was the minister who baptized her in her infancy , she must certainly have been mistaken .
I was indeed very intimate in her fathers family ., and often visited there during the few years that I lesided ^ at Worcester . But she must have been born about the
year 17 ^ 8 , at which time I was a junior student at Daventry . The congregation at Bromsgrove was at that time without a
minister : it is probable therefore that my worthy predecessor at Worcester , Mr . Urwick , performed the ceremony . He likewise was better entitled than I ever was to
the appellation of Arian . For till I became a proper Unitarian I never descended lower than Dr . Clarke ' s scheme , nor did I ever give credit to that frightful
doctrine or ; tjv 7 T 0 T 5 , qts ovk yv , that there was a time when ihe Logos HicTnot exist , which , as the pious Bishop of Alexandria affirmed , mdde the new heresy of ' Arius more odious and damnable than
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Book-lVor ? n . No . XII . r Feb . 7 , 1814 .
Sm , In referring once more to Thomas Beard ' s < c Theater of God ' s Judgments , '* I cannot venture to follow with any minuteness this author whose generally horrible , though sometimes ludicrous , in . stances of Divine Judgments prov * not that Thomas Beard was sin * gularly weak and credulous , but rather that he had not the rare merit of detecting and despising the weakness and credulity of his
age . The Chapter of Heretikes , p . 96 , could not fail to be largely pro * ductive of Divine Judgments . Cerinthus is not forgotten who 4 * det nying , and goihg about to darken the doctrine of Christ's everlasting
kingdom , was overwhelmed by the sudden fall of an hot house , [ hot bath ] which fell upon him and his associates as soon as St * John was departed from it . ' * Manes is declared to have " had his skin pulled over his eqrs alive , ' ' and the vujgar tale of Arius is told without any variation . ** As
for Nestorius , the very worms diA knaw in pieces his blasphemdit ^ tongue , and at length the earthL opened her mouth and swallowed him up . " Olympus , the Arian Bishop of Carthage u uttered blasphemous words against the holy Trinity , but a threefold
thunderbolt came from above , and struck him dead in the same place / ** Concerning the Anabaptists , * my author discovers his zeal for
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all the heresies which had § Y < er been hearJ of in the wofld before ^ I am , Sir , &c . T . BELSHAM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 114, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/42/
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