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Mr . BehJiams Reply to Ike Animaijfaersions oftktl&v . Reginald Hder . 29 a
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faUesi extent , ti ^ hfeh hopeCh aU things and folieueth < itt things , I do confess *} ibat my Charity is strained to itsvut ~~ most limit when it is required to be-. £ gve , that one learned a ** d highjy ce-v Iebrated prelate is Sincere when fee maintains , that the Father begot the * Sod by contemplating his own perfec- * tjons : arid that another can be quite * in earnest when , he contends , that * three nog-entities rnake a perfect BeJT ing . Vt [ heti tme is reduced to the hard alternative ^> f ? believing thai a divine of the < highest order in the church is eithe * i li ^ .. ' ^ : Ci \ ? > wh&h rf » j the fi < jes of this distressing dilemma wo ^ dd Mv . Hefeef adyisef a friend to choose ? One word more , Sir * and I have done . Inhere are ) '' Christian advocates' * at iCfti&bri ^ g ** % f Hampton Lecturers ? a& Oxford , and Senior
Fellows" at I > ubjin , not to mention > a herd of Jtev * ewereUi < , their train , who all with one accord write and preach and publish against nve and my works , and who take infinite paios ta cq&-vincethe PAxbliq that neither the one
or the otherf are >\ corthy ; of notice , from none of my numerous opponents < tolmeet withr ^ quarter * aad scarcely with co&ajnon civility , except from mv worthy , friend , professor Kidd , of Aberdeen ; who does not represent me as altogether void of common to
sense , though I ^ un unable comp rehend his super-sublime demonstration « f the dqctrjne of the Trinity , Now , Sir *\ a £ aja overwe ^ aing vanity will extract nutriment even * from what Was intended as its , bane ; and as I Once knew a bad poet console himself for | he lampoons which were made upon his wretched verses , by observjafrgi that ^ ev ^ Holder bad ibis Zoilus , " , so though I desire to keep inyself as
humble a $ j my adversaries themselves endeavour to mafop uij ^ , yet unlu&feily this formidable cQmbi « dtion against me operates , I know not how , a $ a temptation to thijik : mOne highly of myself vhan I ought to think , For when I see that ho less than four x > f our Universities ,
a * e discharging their treniendous artillery through their respective organs , again $ t an insulated , unsheltered , unpatrofused , untitled individual fyke oaysclft 9 [ Arj& 8 m etSccf Oibnte $ y V auji vairT * n <* wgh to conclude - that my humble * efforts , for , the restoration of primitive docifihe : are not quite so inefheient as * [^ y'zealous opponents would h ^ Jve itJ Wwwad ^ 4 snd la stor * the truth , if
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these learned * gentlemen thought of me as they profess to do , and as . I think of them , they would surely act by me as I do by them , and would give themselves . m . d sort of concern either about me or my works * I am . Sir , &c ^
T . BELSHAM- ; P . S . The learned lecturery who is ever read y to charge the Unitarian with that inaccuracy of which he himself exhibits many conspicuous examples , accuses me note p . 121 . of repieseating Archdeacon Blackburne , as arv
Unitarian . * This charge I distinctly deny . I have a better opportunity of knowing what that venerable dignitary ' s , sentiments really were than Mr . Heber can possibly have : for I am in possession of his confidential correspondence : they were not Calvindsttc . JBut whatever hi * theological sentiments were , Arehdeacbn Blackburne .
was a man of a truly honourable mind . Entitled by talent and learning , and warranted by connexion * to look up to the highest preferment which the chuch has to bestow , he refused to accept of any beneftee which made it necessary for him ta
renew his subscription to the thirtynine articles . For which he was blamed by some whe thought as freely as himself , but who possessed more of the wisdom of tl > is -world : "who loved truth well , but preferment hetter . But this venerable man did not
think it necessary to relinquish his moderate preferment in the church notwithstanding the change in his theological opinions , because he regarded it as a station of more extensive usefulness than any which he could occupy among the Dissenters . And he was offended with those of his
family who thought and acted uppn a different principle . It seems that now in the nineteenth century it is ^ reat offence to hazard a doubt concerning the entire assent of any learned divine to every proposition contained in the articles wnich he
subscribes : which assent , according to Archdeacon Paley it would be mdst unreasonable to expect or to demand . In the better times of Clarke , and Hoadley , and Sykes , and Jortin , a
libe-* /« This zealous p £ \ rtizan , " says Hr . H « bcr , p . 121 , speaking : of Archdeacon , Blackburne , " was » ot only m Trinitat'&u tut a Caiviuut ;; ' ; .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1816, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2452/page/7/
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