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to >'«? tftrie in iH&t ' aTtiijTfcf Gog" rind ^ fo ^ agttgttitftt the kirig-dom of Christ , % at be translated thither before the dfcvil he loosed , ifmot > p + ie&eM \ y after his tyiitg- up . Arid Wltesfce should those natitf ns £ et wrtice of the giorfotts happiness of oiir wdrld , if not by soiAe Christians that bad lilted femon&si them ?
*• Thus have I told you out of 'my ^ fstticy of the inhabitants of that nvbrld , Which , though it be built upon there conjeetbrfcs , ' and Hot ftptfn ^ firm ground , yet may hare Ho tautfh liSe as to shtfw a posirfblftty 6 f ¦ aawrWeYitig" such scruples as are itfdiit to itefa in men s heads concerning * the * hi : "Whiten :: consideration is not always Hto 'be despised . "—Pp . 799 , 800 .
Dr . Twisse to Mr . Mede . " Newbury ^ April 6 , 1635 . 3 ¦ u As for the peopling of the New World , I find more in this letter of jours than formerly I have been acquainted with . Your conceit thereabouts , if I have any judgment , is grave and ponderous ; and the particular you touch upon , of SatauTs wisdom imitating the wisdom Of God , doth affect me with admiration . And for matter
of fact , the grounds you go upon , for ought I see , are as g-ood as the World can afford .- ^——Call that which you write
fancies , as your modesty suggests ; I cannot * bat entertain' them as s&ge conceits . ** —1 \ 809 . This opinion of the devil having CtoKiveyfed tlie ftlrst colorty to Afnerica ,
fccmiittttfed to be maiiltaiWedfcv Joseph ftfotte . In a letter to Mr . Estwick , dated two years afterwards , iVlarch 22 , 1657 , he expresses his belief as to " the American world , " that " it was
not kifiabited m Christ ' s and his apostles' times , nor same ages after it } " and that it wds " first inhabited ttince the days of Constaritine , when the devil saw he cotild no longer reign liete without eontroul and the
contiiiti ^ d affront the gospel and cross of Christ . ' He adds that « then he sought out another world to plant hkn a kingdom in , " repeating his aH us km to the Pelopidarum faetaS—P . 843 . It is remarkable that -a writer who
had done so fattcii to depreciate the reputation of diabolical ( tfduehCe iti the supposed £ asdi i 6 f pos $ eniony « h 6 uia thus attHbiite to a devil an independent sovereignty over mankind , and even describe him as sharing the earth with the Almighty , though his lordship may be at length successfully disputed . J « 1 it .
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»» , iVbu . ^ 6 , 1817 BEFORE this rb ^ fajt ^ 'to ' Ute read tlie fe fle < 5 ti 6 ns of soirie spirited Correspondent in your journal on the very extraorStfiary su ggestion made in , and as wisely rejected by , Parliament ( as stated in Mori . Repos ! p . 448 ) , for the insertion , in the late consolidated Clergy RLesideface Acts , of sotne rigorous provisions for cofti !
perlitig a stricter p ^ rfortnaiide of fhe chifr'dh services , with tnore especial referetice to the very prevalent omission ( of late years ) of the Athanasian Creed . Now , Sir , it strikes me that the
very ground on which this proposal was suggested to the legislature , ( and which was in fact negatived on the just cbus 18 eration that the bishops already possessed atople powers to enforee the more regftlar use of this
unpopular confession if they chose to do soy ) affords one of tile most gratifying proofs that has for long been exhibited , of the widely increasing liberality and Catholicism of the age . With regard to the clergy iridiriduaMy , It is a well-known fact ( iii tfefe
establishment ) , that , so ^ riVom ftMin ^ ap ^ tefreasiVe of ittcuVriWg the Cctfsdi-e , or exposing thetn ^ elvi ^ s to ithe reWOnfctrancfes of their 'diocesan chiefs , by the omission of tins creed on Ibe prescribed festivals , they are pretty strongly impressed with the ) conviction that their sentiments ( with a very few exceptions ) would rather
harmonise with th e idea of its being " bmre h¬ored in the brmtih thdn the ob * ervmee" And it wiay be c ? ven still fbither ^ einiaHtfed , that fn irtdiijy cas ^ s whfei * e it is ustfcl , it H uiiderstood to be dotte more wikh the view of
satisfying the scrupulous fears of high church laymen , * ( tremblingly apprehensive of every innovation , ) than from any cordial concurrence of the officiating minister even where it is so < u « teri .
While upori tfie s ^ ubjfect of tfcw *> obnoxious corif ^ srotl , i catktaot oiWit the opportunity it atToiWs o ^ sitfg' ^ itilng (> Cvith a View To ft * ttiore coYifirmea reprobation ) , that as the well-knowo wish ^ of the di ^ iii firui ^^ ^ ruMe ,
* Tbte iiiteHi ^ eht tender h rtiqneif * pattitfurterty to tidte thM this pro ^ ition fer frifbrctyg the tt ^ e Hf « Ms ttbtd ^ g ^ n ^ rt ^ a With a lapka n , * titid , tibdte »• ttt ' tfitai ' y itmti 6 f h % h H&k !
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910 ^ DisuSeofthe AtJttouttian Creed .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 710, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/14/
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