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tffe fcf ^ ife&kin ^ -orga ns , '? % inc ?© tfrtiteh w * 4 ? kd befe ^ hie ^ " as deaf as- a cfctrf ^ ffaft . ^ After discussing the' £ d and 3 d general heads , Mr . liow pTOfc&ffred Wiftlldwi : ' ¦ - - i «" r Now- I < $ orhe to tell you how she Is ' - * Wutkl-gd' in her feet , and that I tSStftkhe ' Worship of the Kirk of
Scotland . "The Kirk of Scotland wars a bdrmj ^ trotting nag , but then she titled sae hard , that never a man xlttfst ride her but the bishops , wba after they gat on her back crossianged liei % ha p ^ shacked her , and when she % ecame a bonny pacing beast , they took great pleasure to ride on her ; but tteir cadging her up and down from
Edinburgh to London , and it may { be frocri Rome too , gave her sik a het ' ^ d at ^ hat we have these twelve months byeane been stirring her up and down to ^ lceep her fra foundying : yea , they made not only a horse but an ass of the Kirk of Scotland . How sae quo *
X s ~ What mean ye by this ? I'll tell ytni iiow they made Balaam ' s as& of / her ; ye ^ ken well enough Balaam ^ Vas jgding an unlucky gait , and first the
angel met him in a broad way , and 'theti the ass bogled and started , but SS&im ^ got by the angel and till her 4 ft * i ; baitarmeci her sufficientl y ; that r Was wlien episcopacy came in , and Kirk
^^ 5 ^ en ttiey gave the of Scotland ihgr p Wfctf . Afterwards Balaam met ^ pe , arij * el in a strait gait , and then she fctatUedr rnair than before ; but Bala ^ LtnjSlr her again , and whaked her * quri 3 ly } that was when the five articles of Perth were brought in . The ^ thifd time the angel met Balaam in
" S&e straight a gait that the ass could nbt win by , and then it pleased the % ofd to open blind Balaam ' s eyes , $ ria \ that is this happy day * s work ; niiw God has opened all our eyes . ^ We . werfe like blind Balaam ganging
in ? unlucky salt , and ricjin ^ r post to Konne ^ a rfd what was gotten behind him upon the ass wot ye ? Ill tell y ou . that was a pockmanty , and what W&-ill it trow ye b » t the book of C £ ftohS , and of Common Prayer $ nd the ^ High Commission ? but as s 6 on
1 & 0 The ass sees the angel she falls a ! liiiiging and a plunging and o ' er gangs ih € PpOdkmanty , and it nines B y the > ftfng on the one side , and aft gaes blind Balaam , and he hings by the ' Hbttgh * on the other side ; and fain ^ ould the Carl have bee n on the ¦¦» ' ¦ v * , " -
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This pious jcudesprit ig' ^ slosed ^ by several' qufetinv e ^ faort&cicttts- ^ &to subserve the covenant , " which dotrbt £ e * had their in-tended e ^ ct jvr i ds nuiM ** s of the several dasses to whom they were ackfressed * I » v coxtxrjawsoftf- wkfa this , how tame and impotence in effect wwild hstve been arr bratioil in tlve
liberal and philosophic ¦ tone . ta * ra tein ]> er of the Freethinker iti Kirtg Henry the Eighth's parliament (* £ e Mon , RejMjs . vol . XI- pi . < 5 § 7 } r wliose pfcan of refofiliation did xtwy irke ^ thut
of John Knox , put down * + nme , ravenous and cruel" bishops , ttier ^ iy to substitute priestly domdn > mi in another shape ; but who- seestfis "to have been ** born out of dvm tkne \ and to have had few auditors who
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Si n , - Jan . 6 , 1817 ^ . 1 ^ HERE can be no- inquiry % o JL interesting on the subject <*( religion as the ^ tate of the human dead . Indeed , on thrs poir > t , the' value frf
human existence turns ,: whether it : 15 to be considered as a ^ blesjsin ^ 01 ^ a curse , whether the Efeity 'be benpejrfi * - lent ^ r malevolent . For if the Sc riptures teach the doctrine > of ^ eternal
torments , human existence isi represented b y thern as an n « utter able curse . The Unitarians , distinguish themselves in this inquiry ^ ana sare hke ] y 1 think tobringithe Scriptural doctrine to light , sb thai ? herearfter a greater harmony of opirfcKm-may be expected . That a Being the author
of ail men ' s appetites , passions , and circumstances , should mark the deviations to which these haare-Jtad , with eternal misery / •? is incredible «upon any other supposition than pure malevolence . JBut w ^ here are westo look for the Scriptural doctrine uon this subject ? In theGdspels of Matthew and Mark ? When Mi .
ilifvantoii ' s arguments are : answered vuath respect to these Oospel * , then their auth o rity may be aftk nowledged , and their language subjected too Train crriticiso 4 . " It is ccctain that thewsGwpeJs
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' &fth I dtl On the tooctrine t > j Eternal Tkriftetefs . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1817, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2461/page/36/
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