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with me , but for your sake I shall shew them every favour in my power . " He then gave him what money he had about him and
directions how to make his escape . u Another accident" ( says Archbishop Spottiswood ) " befel him , which I should scarcely relate , so incredible it seemeth , if to many
of good place he himself had not often repeated it as a singular testimony of God ' s care of him . " In the course of his journey through Italy , while he avoided the public roads and took a circuitous route
to escape from pursuit , the money which he had received frofti the grateful soldier failed him . Hav . ing laid himself down by the side of a wood to ruminate on his
condition , he perceived a dog approaching him with a purse in its teeth . It occurred to him that it had been sent by some
evil-disposed personj who was concealed in the wood , and wished to pick a quarrel with him . He therefore endeavoured to drive him away ; but the animal continuing to fawn
upon him , he at last took the purse , and found in it a sum of money
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Essay on the different Views of Providence . May 29 , 1814 . There have been those , who were not Atheists , and who even believed in the existence of an
intelligent First Cause of all things , who have yet hesitated to admit a Providence . They have professed to doubt whether the Beiiag who made the world was at all interested
in Us concerns ; whether he from whom all finite agents originally
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which enabled him to prosecute his journey . Having reached Vienna , and announced himself as a Dominican , he was employed to preach before the Emperor Maximilian . His majesty was so much pleased that he was desirous of
retaining him ; but the new Pope , Pius IV ., having heard of his reception at the Austrian capital , applied to have him sent back to Rome as a condemned heretic , upon which the Emperor dismissed him with a safe-conduct . Whea
he arrived in England in 1550 , and was informed of the establishment of the reformed religion in his native country , he immediately repaired to Scotland , and was
admitted to the ministry . Having in a great measure forgotten his native language during an absence of 24 years , he for a short time preached in Latin to some of the learned in Magdalene ' s chapel-He was afterwards appointed minister of the parish of Cannongate f where he had not officiated long , before he was elected colleague to Knox .
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derived their powers , was in any degree solicitous in what manner or for what purposes these powers were exercised . How such a
singular inconsistency ever found advocates it is not easy to conjecture , nor is it very material to inquire ; since the great bulk of philosophic Theists in all ages have been ready
to admit that the Divine Being takes an interest , raort or less direct and minute , ia the concerns of his creatures .
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Essay on the different Views of Providence . 457
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 457, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/9/
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