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and personally is God , by whose Spirit they spake , and to whom ( as in the above passage ) the personal pronouns must refer : hence we never read of
their hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit , or of the word of the Spirit coming to them , because in every instance , ( as we learn from Heb . i . 1 , ) he who spake by the prophets was God and God alone . JOHN MARSOM .
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No . CCCXXVI . Fellows * Oath , Trinity College , Cambridge . In the statutes ^ iven by Queen Elizabeth , of glorious memory , to Trinity College , in the University of
Cambridge , ( says . Dr . Clarke , Tntrod . to Scripture Doctrine , J the following oath is appointed to be taken by eviery Fellow in the Chapel , before his admission : / , iV . TV . do swear and promise in the presence of God , that I will heartily and steadfastly adhere to the
true religion of Christ , and will prefer the authority of Holy Scripture before the opinions of men ; that I will make the wor <\ of God the rule of -my , faith and practice , and look upon other things which are not proved out of the tvord of God , as human only ;—4 kat I will
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readily , and with all my power , oppose doctrines contrary to the word of God ; that in matters of religion , I will prefer truth before custom , what is written before what is not written , tyc .
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190 . ' Gleanings .
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GLEANINGS * , OK , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING ,
No . CCCXXV . Philosophic Heresy . The readers of Dr . Chalmers ' s Theologico-Astronomical Lectures are aware how much the notion of other worlds beins inhabited has interfered
with orthodoxy . Cadonici , a canon of the cathedral of Cremona , published in 1760 , a work which he entitles , Theologico-Physical Refutation of the opinion of Derham , that the Planets are inhabited by rational Beings .
He sagely assumes that there are only two kinds of reasonable creatures , men and angels , and shews that there is no place in the other planets which either race could occupy . That men like ourselves could not live there is
clear : besides , who should have transplanted them thither 1 The Devil he could not . God ! he would not . It is , therefore , proved that it is impossible that there should be men there .
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No , CCCXXVH . v Heretical Proverb . Amidst all the reproaches cast upon heretics and heresiarchs , they may comfort themselves that they have
commonly escaped the charge of stupidity , Bayle , in his account of Arminius , says , that a proverb in France to denote a blockhead was , He will broach no heresies . The converse of
this has never been framed into the proverbial character of a man of genius : the most orthodox would account it an ambiguous compliment to a man ' s , understanding to say of him , He believes the Athanasian Creed .
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No . CCCXXVIII . Literature and Science in Turkey . The little proficiency made by the Turks in subjects of a mathematical , geographical and political nature , arises from the want of encouragement on
the part of the government . Law and Theology alone occupy the attention of the students in the colleges , or medresses . Acquisitions of knowledge are not discouraged by the Koran . " The ink of the learned , " said Mahomet , " and the blood of martyrs are of equal value in the sight of Heaven . *
But the general improvement of the empire has been retarded by the custom of confining within the waifs of the Seraglio the hereditary princes of the Turkish throne , and thus secluding them from the world , and shutting out the means of acquiring knowledge . Literature seems to have met with
more encouragement and protection from the Sultans of former ages . ** Be the support of the faith and projector of the sciences , " were among the last words of Osman the First , to his successor Orkhan . In the sermon
entitled Koutbe , a divine benediction is implored on the orthodox Caliphs who were eudowed with learning , virtue and sanctity . > There are thirty-five public libraries of
in Constantinople ^ none them containing less than * 1000 manuscripts ; in many are found mpre than 5000-The collection in the two libraries of the Seraglio exceeds 1 * 5 , 000 volumes
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/38/
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