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repeated on three succeeding days , but without effect . Heaven withheld its blessings and rejected their petitions . The caliph then ordered the Jews , and Christians to unite their supplications with those of the faithful ; when , lo i to the great scandal of Islamini , the rain fell in abundance , and the earth was refreshed . The caliph was astounded : he felt the affront even
more than he acknowledged the favour , and his faith staggered with resentment . The Ulema * were asseinhled , and the caliph proposed his doubts ; when a reverend doctor , no less learned than pious , arose , and enforcing his reasonings with the seductions of eloquence , calmed his disquietude , and brought him back into the stedfastness of truth . The
Mahometan , doctors attribute to inspiration the discourse which he pronounced . €€ What is there , " said the holy man , ** so extraordinary , in this event , or so inimical to the religion of Mahomet ? God , " continued he , " so loves the Mussulmans , his chosen
people , their prayers and their petitions are so grateful to his ear , that he even abstains from an immediate compliance with their request , to combel them io » renew their pious
addresses : but tl \ e voice of infidels is harsh and dissonant 5 anfl if he grant their petitions , it is fxqm disgust at their naus « o \ v 8 supplications , and to riil himself of their importunities . " *
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. No . GCLX . Ancients and Moderns . ** God hath given wisdom unto all , according ; to a competent measure , thktthey might both find out things tiiih ' e ' arfr 6 T before , ajrfd ^ veigh things already' ibttfid' out . Neither befcaoise
Miey ' had ' the start of us in trme ^ doth it likfev f fee fJgjHow thaVri ) tiey havp it al ^ o ii i wisdom , which ^ if it }> e indifferentl y granted to all , it cannot le foresUflled t > y them that went before . It M unimpareable , like the li § ht and bri ghtness of the sun , it being the % fit of man ' s heart , as the sun is of
his eyes . Since then to be wise , that fe » to search the truth ,- is a disposition inbred in' every man , they debar themselves oT '¦ wisaoro , who , without any txatniaattony approve the invehtibn ^ ^[ thei f ances to rs , atad , like urireaaonf ^ e ^ g tti ^ s ^ are \ vholly led by others ^ ¦ mi r
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But this ^ is it wh i ch deceives them * the nanie of ancestors being once set in the front , they think it cannot be that either themselves should be wiser , because they are called punics , or the others shoxild in any thing t > e mistaken > because they are called their ancestors" From I ^ actantrus , Div . Imt . 1 . ii . c . 8 , by Hake will . Apologic , 1630 . 1 . iii . ad fin . «
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No . CCLXI . Jtfagnanimilif of the lioyal jfrhmih / . When the Princess of Wales , mother of hi ^ present Majesty , mentioned , with some appearance of censure , the conduct of Lady Margaret M'Donald of Sleat , who harboured and concealed
the Prince when in the extremity of peril , he threw himself on -her protection— ' * And would not vou , Madam , " answered Prince Frederick , " have done the same in the like circumstances ? I hope—I am sure you would /* Besides the great measure of restoring the forfeited estates . > of the
chiefs , our venerable sovereign shewed , on many occasions , hew litue his heart was capable of nourishing dislike against those who had acted upon principle against the authority of his
family . The support which he afforded to the exiled branch of the Stuarts , wiH form a bright trait in his history ; and secluded as , he now is from his , government and people , we may as of a deceased monarch relate one of those
trifling traits which marked the generous kindness of his disposition . His Majesty was told of a gentleman of
family and fortune , in > »¦¦ shire ; that , far from taking the oath of allegiance to him , he had never been known to name or permit him to tie
named as J ^ ing in his presence . —* 44 Carry my compliments to him /* said tha kin , g , * and say that I ' respect his ^ teadfii > ess of principle ; or , as he / may not receive my confipliineuts as King of England , present them as those of th £ Klector ot Hanover / ' And he never
aftervv 4 r 4 s ^ w . the gentleman from whom theaue * ' 4 ote iaderived , without enauiring after the health of the ye ne ruble recusant , and reiterating | his wish to be remembered to liim . The same kinxlqess tq the memoni of tl > osc vv ( ho liazarded . themselves , for' the Stuart
Qau ^ pr has been inherited by tjfet ^ tppresent administrator of royal authority j and 40 liin ^^ as tpi hisffa tjier * their descen 4 an ^ & liaya been an . d are proin ^ pf to r <^ p ^^ Quarterly Review ,
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Gleanings . * 339
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/31/
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