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    to have but few preachers , three or four iUtt ctrotft / heing" sufficient ; and perempt £ F *| y cofrtman ded him to suppress ' theta . Tbc archbishop , however , though ^ that sbe had made some infringement upon his office , and wrote her a long- and earnest 1

    letter , declaringthat his conscience would not suffer him to comply with her injunctions . This so inflamed the Queen , that ibe sequestered the Archbishop from his office , and he never afterwards recovered her favour . " *

    Honourable mention is here made of Mr . Cuthbert Simpson , who was a deacon of this first Protestant churchj a pious , faithful and zealous man , labouring incessantly to preserve the

    flock from the errors of Popery , and tp secure them from the dangers of persecution . He was apprehended with Mr . Rough and several others * at a house in Islington , where the church were about to assemble , as

    was their custom , for prayer and preaching | the word ; and being taken before the council was sent to the Tower . It was the office of Mr . Simpson to keep a book containing the names of the persons belonging

    to the congregation , which book he always carried to their private assemblies ; but it happened through the good providence of God , that on the day of his apprehension ^ he left it with Mrs . Rough , the minister ' s wife . f During his confinement in the Tower ,

    4 i the Recorder of London examined him strictly as to the persons who attended the English service ; and hecause he would discover neither the book , nor the names , he was cruelly racked three several times , but without effect . The Lieutenant of the Tower also caused an arrow to be tied

    between his two fotte-fing-ers , and drew it out so violently as to cause the blood to gush forth . These marble-hearted men not being . able " to move the constancy of onr Confessor , consigned him over to Bonier , who bore this testimony concerning him before a number of spectators : * You ee what a personable man this is ; and for

    his patience , if he were not an heretic , I hould much commend him 5 for he has been thri ve racked in one day , and in my house he hath endured some sorrow , and yet I never saw his patience once moved !' But notwithstanding this , lionner condemned hfrn , ordering him first into the stocks in his coal-bouse , . and from thence * 0 SinHHn > W , where with Mr . Fox and

    ' f * * Nd # ,: uhi supra , p . 239—40 . " 1 * r ^ % | fLi s ascribed by Clark to a " reua * kabta ; 4 reai | i ^ t * tot was nathing but an act pf coainon prudence . Vfltfu . rau • , ' ¦ '" ' 2 :

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    Art . III . —A Letter to Trinitarian Christians . By W . Marshall , Minister of the Unitarian Chapel , St . Alban ' s , Herts . Pp . 20 . 12 mo .

    Price 6 d . Richardson , 91 , Royal Exchange . P i 1 HIS Letter contains a forcible JL appeal to Trinitarian Christians , intended to excite them to a careful

    examination of the doctrines they profess . The writer asks , " Will you take in Christian charity my inviting you to a serious examination of your faith ? Will you permit me to remind you , your Trinitarian doctrine and Calvinistic creed , are not true because you have never questioned their

    truth ; are not true because you have been educated in the belief of them , nor because they form the popular faith : as far only as , you sincerely believe they were taught by Jesus Christ and his apostles , can you have an honest conviction of their truth . " How will Trinitarians answer the

    following questions ? Yet it seems incumbent on them to do it . " Do you , Trinitarians , sincerely believe that God Almighty was in the form of a man upon earth ? That the Creator of the World was an embryo in the womb ? That God was born ? That

    God was an infant at the breast ;—that God passed through the stages of youth to manhood 5—( hat God worked as a carpenter ;—that God lived as a man , and at last died as a man , through excess of bodily pain and torture ? " P . 4 .

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    Review . A ' — -Marshall ? s Letter . —IZather ^ jRe / lections . 160

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    Art . IV . —A leather ' s Reflections on the Death of his Child . Pp . 32 . Law and Whitaker , Ave-Maria JLane , f H IHESE Reflections shew the prac-JL tical influence of the views

    Unitarian Christians entertain of God and his government , in times of affliction . A father deeply affected by the death of a beloved child in its infancy , pre ^ sents the reader with his meditations on the mournful occasion , which are truly edifying . . He says , p . 1 O , " This sad disappointment- of my fondest wishes I am bound to consider as the

    voice of Almighty God , inviting ; me ? 'to wean my affection s * from tlie world ; > " Clark ' s Martyrblogy , p . 497 * \

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    Mr . Deveaish , two others of the church taken at Islington , he ended Vis life in th « flames , t

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/41/