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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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reflections , which circulated about , raised the King ^ to the highest pitch of hatred and indignation against my person , as he has since allowed ; for when all the ladies whose husbands had been concerned presented their petitions for
dowers , mine was presented among them , but the King said I was Hot entitled to the same privilege , and in fact I was excluded ; and it was remarkable , that he would never suffer my name to be mentioned . For these
reasons every body judged it prudent for me to leave the kingdom , for so long » s the hatred of the King subsisted , it was not probable that I could
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Book-Worm . No . XXIV . Hill * s Vindication of the Fathers against Eishop Surnet . Sir , 'J uly 29 , 1817 . IT cannot fail to bring into question the correctness of any opinion
when those who maintain it , with sincerity and information apparently equal , are yet unable to explain themselves to each other ' s satisfaction , or rather when their definitions are
completely at variance . Such , however , has been eminently the case respecting a fundamental dogma of all established Churches ^ Papal or Protestant , for the Souths and Sherlocks airnong learned Trinitarians wiH be found , on inquiry , to have been far more numerous than
the professed believers in a holy and undivided Trinity would , probably , allow . I was led to make this reflection by having met , very lately , with an old book , quite new to me , written , with no small rancour , against Bishop Bwnet . The author , a brother
church-man , accuse )* the Bishop of betraying their common faith by an insufficient , ' or rather ah insidious defence , and , at the same time , depreciating the Fathers * whose authority has constituted , in establishments especially , a main support of modern orthodoxy . The book to which I refer has the foltowfn * titM :
" A Vindication of the Prilnitive Fathers against the Imputations of Gilbert , Lord Bishop of Safum , in h is Bfocourte on the Divinity and Death of Christ , referred to the Sense and
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escape from falling into his hands . I accordingly went abroad . This is the full narrative of what you desired , and of all the transactions ' relative to the affair . Nobody living beside yourself could have obtained it from me ; but the obligations I owe you , threw me under the necessity of
refusing you nothing that bet * in my power to do . As this is for yourself alone , your indulgence will excuse all the faults , which must occur in this long recital . The truth you may depend upon , attend to that and overlook all deficiences . Love , &c . Winifred Nithsdale .
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Judgment of the Church Universal , the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of the Church of England , the two famous Universities of Oxon and Cambridge , and the next Session of the Convocation . By Samuel Hill , Rector of
Kilmington in the Diocese of Bath and Wells . " 8 vo . Pp . 190 . London , 16 Q 5 . The title-page is also adorned with a Greek quotation from Atbanasius , recommending an adherence to the opinions of the Fathers , as enlightened teachers of Gospel doctrine .
Of this author , who was an € hsonian 9 Wood has given the following account : " Samuel Hill , son of William Hill , of South Petherton , in Somerset ,
became a Servitor-of Lincoln College , in the latter end of 1662 , aged 14 years , transferred himself afterwards to St . Mary ' s Hall , and as a Member thereof , was admitted Bachelor of Arts on 15 th Nov 1666 , which was the
highest degree which he took here . Afterwards returning to his native country , became at length Rector of Kilmington there , and much esteemed for his learning and zeal for the Church of England . A . O * 2 nd Ed . ii .
1 OOO . This zeal for the Church * aad especially for her ** authority in controversies of faithv" according ? to the £ Ot'h Article , has appeared On ray author ' s title-page , where lie bespeaks a censure from •« the next Session of
the Con vocation . " Tbe Lower House of Convocation in 1701 did indeed assail the Bishop , buls they had a Jfttgher
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Hill ' s Vindication of the Fathers . 467
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/19/
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