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    PMffiofihiM < tnd Christian Tru j uhivfritfe - ± -Tioyte ) Locke and ' June 1 , 1813 . SlK ,

    I have often thought , that were I a professor of modern orthodoxy , it would mortify me not a little to be obliged to go out of my own communion to find the imost

    illustrums examples of reason grate . tf&liy yielding to the evidences of tim Christian revelation . Yet such has been the case , and a

    triumvirate of Christian philosophers has ft & A almost invariably been formed , c ^ ii by Calvinistic writers , from tb * $ Barnes of Boyley Locke and Newton .

    V $ i * a&k been remarked of Boyle , tBi& £ be had such an awe of the D&ity fcs not to use the name of God without an observable pause

    it f ' % fs < lis £ ourse # To such a mind , 'wl'fh the highest reverence for the itttfti J' Christ Jesus , I should ex . pecitf tti € f strange metamorphoses of the modern orthodox God ~ Man

    would be as offensive as the Roitfafiiste * Breaden * God , at which F ¥ bftefctatits have agreed to laugh out tight for more than two centuries . I am , however , too little

    acquainted with the works of Boyle W assert that he has nowhere appeared to declare in favour of a Trfttity and an atonement , though nbt in a Calvinistic sense *

    Severifl circumstances , however , serve to place him among rational Christians . If I remember co r * rfefctly , after an interval of some yfcars , since I read his

    Considerations on the Style of the Scriptures , th&jf are quite in the spirit of li-Iteral criticism . Nor is it less pro . bfcfcl < ef * frotn this having been one df three of Mr , Boyle'is relu gimt treatises denounced , not

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    without & cpjnptiraent t < £ hi f j Aju losophy , * in the Popish jTw ^ W . librorum prohibiCoriimy piiblisti e ^ at Rotne by order of the sacred

    college , in 1700 . " Biog , Brit , ii ; 514 . His public interruption of , that enlightened and injured patriot , but highly mystical preaqher , Sir H . \ ane , to maintain , as he says , ' ** the plain and genuine meaning of a prophecy against

    Sir Henry * s allegorizing humour , ' looks the same way ( p . 5 i |) * iMfr-Boyle ' s muniiScent efforts for toe promotion of Christ iahi ty were al ^ o in a most liberal spirit , ; ^ ^ iC He was at the charge of tlh $

    translation and impression of t ^ p " New Testament into the Maf ^ j ^ tongue , which he sent pve £ all the East Indies . He gave a noblej ^ ward to him that translated Gro . tius ' s incomparable \> o 6 k 9 o ^ yjjfc Truth of the Christiaif ttef ^^ into Arabic * aiid ' Was at tneirhargS r 11- ' - "¦ ¦ ' ¦ > i f ^«^^ ot a whole impre 8 sipn ^ \ yhi ^ .: fy ^' . took care should te dispergect , ^ pf all the countries where | ha £ l ^^ guage is understood , ' . J ^ eHya ^' i ; j |* solved to have carried o ^ fhei ^ v pression of the New ''' |^^ tpmc ^ jyi | J

    the Turkish language £ ^" yS company thought it becam& iBem to be the doers of it , and so suf . fered him only to give a large share towards it . ^ HowmiQ&M&Ql charge in the edition of the Irish Bible , which he ordered \ q be dis * tributed in Ireland ; and

    Jbfibcontributed liberally boU > to ^^ JWpression 6 f the WelsK Bibje" %# d the Irish Bible for Scptl ^ n d ^ |< i r p- - " ' ! ... .. " .: / . i - / ' ^ i vv . Mr . Boyle ' s liberal spirit ^ i > ff cially appearsiri c * his noble foundation for LecturesVf to se £ ( or | lfc the truth of the phristiaii . ^ Jl ^^ in gem ^ raLl , * ' janci accor 4 i % ^ tat m titim ^ pt 6 ^ ^ vmom

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    § && Philosophicat and Cfiristitih ^ Triumvirate .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/14/