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As if a dying God or , as he quaint * ly sings , an expended Deity bad been , a novelty to Heathens , who could have referred the Christian , poet to their Jupiter ' s tomb .
Well might a theologian of such a wide swallow complain , as Young does at the commencement of the Centaur , that " Socinus , like our infidels , was one of a narrow throat ;" thus also discovering the ignorance
or injustice too common with the reputed Orthodox , on such subjects . Yet could Young be really ignorant that a Bishop of St . David ' s , not a Burgess , had recommended , in * a Charge to his Clergy , the work of Socinus , de auctoritate sacrce
scripturtJBy as a valuable performance , and that a Clerrgyman had published a translation of the work , dedicated to Queen Caroline , under the title of a Demonstration of the Truth of the Christian Religion . I have now before me the 2 nd edition , 1732 . IGNOTUS .
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$ 4 Jubilee of the R&fernwtion * .
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lig ? ous Jubilee may be not unworthily celebrated by these who shall survive to the now approaching third Centenary of the Reformation ^ an event , to be valued not so much for the state of things it immediately produced , as for that which it has occasioned .
The door , opened by Luther , to free inquiry in religion , can now no more be shut thau the gates of the poet which barred the passage out of Chaos . Notwithstanding a transient obscurity the light will surely shine unto 'the perfect day . Nor can I forbear to apostrophize the persecutor in the sublime language of the Hard ,
Fond impious man think st thou yon sanguine cloud , RaisM by thy breath , has qttench'd the orb of day ? To-morrow he repairs the g-olden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray .
It will probably be the admiration of posterity that modem statesmen should have given themselves credit for having secured the repose of Europe while they have united Tros Rutulusve—Papist , Protestant , and Greek , to restore that spiritual
domination which had sunk into insignificance under the genius of Napoleon , but which for ages before had continually embroiled the world . Dagon is indeed again set on his pedestal , yet , I trust , his mutilations can never be repaired . OTIOSUS ,
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Sir , AMONG the many laudable efforts now making to decrease what I must take the liberty of calling idolatry , and to increase the number
of Unitarian Christians , I have sometimes been a little surprised , that it has not hitherto been thought of sufficient importance to make the road more generally easy for the members of the Established Church . It is well
known that great numbers of them are highly dissatisfied with much of what they there meet with—with the Trinity—with their creeds—with the length of their services—and with the frequent repetitions in the same
service . Notwithstanding all these solid objections , however , it is equally w £ ll , known , that but few of them can be prevailed Upon to quit " the CJiul-chT tar " tjte Meeting-house , ' where the minister prays ,, not in : »
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Sir , Jan . 27 , 1816 , AMONG the Sap Papers , in your Vol . iv . p . 483 , is an account in one of Mrs . Shepherd ' s letters , of a Jubilee celebrated at Stockholm in
1717 , on the 2 nd Centenary of th « Reformation , which was considered as commenced by Luther , when " on the eve of All Saints , in 1517 » he affixed on the Church adjoining the Castle of Wittemberg his Thesis
containing thirty-five Propositions against Indulgencies , challenging any one to oppose them either by writing or public disputation / 1 That this Jubilee was , at least partially , observed in England , appears from a published Sermon , entitled ,
" The Duty of Reformation * Set forth in a Sermon , preached at St . James ' s , in the Chapel of his late Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark , on the nineteenth Sunday after Trinity , 1717 . On occasion of
the Jubilee , kept about this time , by some Protestant Churches , in remembrance of the Reformation begun two hundred years ago . By Anthony William Boehm , Chaplain to his late Royal Highness . London . 1718 . "
The name Jubilee has been rendered almost contemptible , in this country , by tlie servile purposes of courtly adulation , to wj ^ db , not , mat * y years ago , it was applied . Otherwise a re-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/20/
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