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5 56 Ch illingtoorth *
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very lamps that we see so far off burning gloriously in it ) only the simpler , baser , cheaper , less noble , less beautiful , less glorious things should be employed : especially seeing as in princes' courts , so in the service of God also , this outward state and glory , being well-disposed , doth ( as 1 have said )
ingender , quicken , increase , and nourish the inward reverence , respect and devotion , which is due to so sovereign majesty and power : which those whom the use thereof
jbannot persuade into , would ea . sily by the want of it be brought to confess . For which cause , I crave leave to be excused by them herein , if in zeal to the common Lord of all , I choose rather to commend the virtue of an enemy , than to flatter the vice and imbecility of a friend . "
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No . XIII . Catholics salvable * All the controversy remaining now , is not simply , whether Protestancy unrepented destroys salvation ? as it was at first pro
posed , but , whether Protestancy in itself ( that is abstracting frpm ignorance and contrition ) destroys salvation ? So that , as a foolish fellow who gave a knight the lye , desiring withal leave of him to set
Kis knighthood aside , was answered by him , that he would not suffer any thing to be set aside that belonged unto him : So might we justly take it amiss that conceiving as you do , ignorance and
repentance such necessary thitigs for lis , you are not more willing to consider us with them , than withoat them . For my part , such is thy charity to you , that considering What great necessity you have , *
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as much as any Christian societ y in the world , that these sanctuaries of ignorance and repentance should always stand open , I can very hardly perstiade myself so much , as in my most secret con .
sideration to divest you of these so needful qualifications : but whensoever your errors , superstitions and impieties come into my mind , ( and , besides the general bonds of humanity and
Christianity my own particular obligations to many of you , such and so great , that you cannot perish without a part of myself ) my only comfort is , amidst these agonies , that the doctrine and practice too of
repentance , is yetremaining in your church ; and that , though you put on a face of confidence of your innocence in point of doctrine , yet you will be glad to stand
in the eye of mercy as well as your fellows , and not be so stout , as co refuse either God ' s pardon or the king ' s . '
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No . XlV . Warning to the Clergy . Lastly , what will become of me , and you ( beloved fathers and breth * ren of the clergy ) , we to whopa God hath entrusted the exercise
and managing of three or four gf his glorious attribute ^ : for to ^ is committed the gospel of CJhrista which is the wisdom of GpcL . t J ^* den from the world ; and to msdl
committed the gospel of Christ * which is th power of Goc ^ to ^ aJ ^ vation , and which worketh tnigfrfc ily in them whi fU believe , eyeing ? cording to the mighty working whereby he raised Christ from the dead ; and to us is committed the gospel of Christ , even the drspcn-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/32/
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