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This work , it seems , consists chiefly of quotations from the lathers ^ u at large" with ci the Originals in the margin . " If fathers were bf any authority , the
following passages from Tertulli&n , which Mr . Campbell gives " in his 70 th page , " would be wellsuited to his purpose .
* Oblationes pro defunctis , pro natalitiis , annua die fecirnus . ( De Coron . Mil . e . 1 ) We make oblations for the dead , and for the
birth-days ( of the martyrs ) at their yearly return . — Dissuading a wi . dower from marriage , speaking of his deceased wife , pro cujus Spiritu postulas , pro qu& obialiones annuas reddis ( Exhort , ad
Castitatem , c . 11 ) . For whose Spirit thou makest request , for whom thou renderest yearly oblations . Of the duty of a widow to her deceased husband , he saith
( De monogamia )) l ' roanima ejus orat , et refrigerium interim ad postulat ei , et in prima resurrectione consortium , et offert annuis diebus dormitionis ejus . She prays for his soul , and begs for him in the meantime , refreshment
and a part in the first ressurrection , and makes an offering on the anniversaries of his death /' Yet Mr . Campbell appears to have been entirely protestant on
the invocation of saints , having quoted a liturgy of St . Chrysostoro , in which prayers are offered , among other saints , " for our most holy , immaculate , blessed and glorious lady , the ever . virgin
Mary , the mother of God / ' he adds ( p . 7 fj ) , i € By praying for the blessed virgin in this liturgy 7 , it is plain the fathers of this age had no notion of her being carried up to the highest heavens without dying , which the Pa-
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pists celebrate ' tofttr ^ fcD «^ titi | f solemnity : firless ^ tf 'A 8 ^/ iiflll | gi ne it w as " p i #$ e f Xi > pray * ttf H her . " " Z " ' " / 1 ' r ° ^~ " * ? Should iriyoife df ^ 6 ii f tewS ^ p have met With this ^' baot ; iSiftai thank hirri , by " y 6 % r Wave , wr % further account of ft . The author was probably some ybifegerbralriida of the Argyle fatuily . 'Mr . "thorit dike was of Caimb'fidjg ^ , and iji 1643 choseii master of Sicfei ^
College . He assisted Walton W his Polyglott , and die ^ l iii iffT ^ i Mr . T . was one of the episcopal commissioners at the Sav ^ y ' Djjsl nutation " - in 1661 . He iS tlui £
mentioned by BaNter ( Lifej p . 5 v % f" Mr . Thorndike sf ^ ake bhfee ' | few impertinent passional &&jx $ & confuting the opinion Avhith ^ We had received of hirh frond his nfsl 1
writings , and confirming ; iK $ fc which his second and laiSt Wlffife ]^ had given us of him . ** Bishop Barrovv has ati artfcfe in the Biog . Britt . p ^ ettediti ^ t& £ of his truly illustrious iieplie ^
Bishop B— appears to have been a benevolent man , and laudably intent , while Bishop of M , m ;|) n improving the forlorn condition . of the population in that &tand *—•? Both divines were , no doubL strictly protestant except on thii one point . The" per sola Chris ( i
merita" of the one , and the ** 1 % - formandas ecclesiae rationem et modum" of the other , fully express this . t Dr . Kippis has made a Short addition to EJishop Barrow ' s 'Li ft * ,
( i , 629 ) in which he nptices thj * . censures passed on him by ctlfo nonconformists , adding , ttiat ^ V'fljft epitaph undoubtedly favours p ^ popish doctrine of prayer § for tlic dead , and shews him to ha / tft been extremely superstitious . " DivK .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/22/
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