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hotter wifoiig he might be as a prieat rfiid- a theological professor , every Protest atit would do well to edtifess . The following extract from Gil pin ' s Lives of the Reformers is a good cofaim&bt on the opinion of
Tbirlby and the Quarterly Reviewer ; and will probably appear to all Protestants , who do not consider themselves as obliged by law to Support a sect , an abundant justification of
Bishop Watson ' s method of studying divinity . It may also be used with sortie advantage by those Vveli-wishers to Unitarianism , who are not quite satisfied with what has yet been done in the controversy respecting * early
opinions . " I will not delay the readefr with the particulars of this day , nor of that oh which Bishop Ridley disputed ( at St . Mary ' s Church , Oxford ) I shall only say in general for the sake of truth , that the Papists do not seem to have had justice done them by their
Protest ant adversaries . Let these put what gloss upon the affair they please , the Papists certainly had the better of the argument on both those days . The case was this : they drew their chief proofs in favour of transubstantiation from the fathers * many of whom , and some of the more esteemed writers
among them , speak on this subject in a language by no means evangelical . The two Bishops accordingly ( Cranmer and Ridley ) being thus pressed by an authority which they durst not reject , were not a little embarrassed . And , indeed , how could a Protestant
divine defend such a passage as th \ x from St . Chrysostom : * What a miracle is this I He who sits above with the Father , at the vei * y same instant of time is handled with the hands of men V Or such a passage as this from the same writer : * That which
is in the cup is the same Which flowed from the side of Christ ;* Or this from Thebphylact : f * Because ( we would abhor the eating of raiv flesh , and e »|> e ially human flesh , therefore , it app £ areth as breads ttioligli ^ it is indeed flesfe / Or th& frota ^ Bt . Austin :
* Christ was carne ^ ft-hiV oW n teinds , when he aaid , thii i » my-body ;** » Or this JVoin Justin Martyr :-i « W ^ ; are taught that < Wht » ii fchtenourishing Ibotl ial consecrated , it b&tomek the fleah and blood a * Chvisti ' Or tHia from St ^ Ambrose : < It is hxtokd'tmfbie it
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is consecrated , but ^^ KlK *^!*^ W& * itaohy has paked t ^ 68 ^ t , - of % i ^» |^ bectoiWes th ^ flesh of X ^ rtk ? pT m these passage ? , aindtrtaiiyotfiehi- ^ same kind , the Papists , Ifriffi iibt ? ^ little dexterity , mafe tWeir ^ iaili Th ^
two Bishops , in the mesitt ii ^ epi ## stead of disavowing an- insufficient authority , weakly d ^ ferrcled at ^ B ^ cF cause , evading and distinguishing after the manne * of the scliboltiaett . i ; >?? v '
•• The prolocutor hM told M ^ e venerable Latimerj that hemlist di ^ piiffe on a certain day . Tjie ? did Bishop , with as much cheerfulness as he wofiki have shewn upon the nibst ordiw ^ fy occasion , shaking his palsied head ; answered smiling ^ Indeed ^ ^ geiSflemen , I ana just as well qualified to be made Governor of Cal ^ s . He
then complained that h ^ w ^ s ver y old and verjr infirm ; and said that he had the use of no book but' of thait under his army which he had read seven times over deliberately , withdiit
finding the least mention made of the mass . In this speech he gave great offence , by saying in his humorous way , alluding to transubstantiatioft , that he could find neither the
marrowbones nor the sinews of the mass in the New Testatoenti Upon which the prolocutor cried out with some warmth , that he would make him find both ; and when Mr . Latimer ^ recollecting himself , was going to explain his meaning in that expression , he was not suffered to speak . " J . M .
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Remarks on the Anecdotes d / tfe Lifi ^ he S ^ kop ofLandaffi . # 5 *
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Sir , Aprils , 1818 . ripHE late Bishop of Landaff , irt JL the Anecdotes of his Life , seems to think that eternal punishments of the wicked , may be necessary to preserve the holy in goodness , in a future
state . This is a very extraordinary opinion , if the Bishop had been a ntttn of much reflection ; for it is founded upon a supposition , that the good , even , in heaven , only continue to-fit such through fetir ; and what can be the happiness of thlit society ; i ^ hich
requires the fear of eternal misery to kee p it from revolt ! ^ A Temptations , which are very pretaii ^ gr jare m * y paMfid , aod the blessed m he ^\ iiU i nxn » t b ^ incouceiVHblytlfmi ^ serable * if , nothin ^ g but th € i > dpead of a greater < st ^ raal misery can keep thtiiti voluntarily in theit present state *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/29/
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