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in ray mind when observing the marines in which many excellent men « e treated , who have riveuthe wjoridfiiJl proof of the integrity conducting ttem In their inquiries , toy jpei » oiis of ga * eat literary abilities , but biassed by power ful causes . The prejudices of
educfc-6011 , lided by the prospect < of vast worldly advantages , may produce , ah undue zeal for established and popular opinions- Solomon justly observed , that jbl < gaft blindeth the wise- Perhaps nothing more to the purpose caa be said to many dignified opposears of Unitarian authors , than what is
ooaautained in this quotation from the £ reast ChiUingworth , in Hie 2 nd page of the Preface to his admired work , the Religion of Protestants , folio ed . 1664 : " Would you know now what the event was , what effect was wrought in
me , by the perusal and consideration of it ? ( your book . ) To deal truly and ingenuously with you , I fell soineis ^ hat in my good opinioii % oth of your sufiU ciency and sincerity , but was exceed * ingly confirmed in my ill opinion of
the cause maintained by you . I found every where snares that might entrap , and colours that might deceive the simple , but nothing that might persuade , and very little that might move an understanding man , and one th&t can discern between discourse and
sophistry . In short , I was verily per * auaded that I plainly saw and could make it appear to all dispassionate and unprejudicate judges , that a vein of sophistry and calumny did run clean through it from the beginning to the end . And letting some friends under
stand so much , I suffered myself to be persuaded by them , that it would not be either improper for me , nor unacceptable to God , nor , peradventure , altogether unserviceable to his chMxeh , nor justly offensive to you , ( if you were indeed a Hover of truth , and not a
maintaiaer of a faction , ) if , setting aside the-Second Part , which was in a manner wholly employed in particular disputes , repetitions and references , and in wranfflinire with D . Potter about
the sense of Borne supernumerary quotations , and whereon the main question ho way depends , I would make u feir and ingemioua ansfrerito tfce OFbret , wherein ithe ^ ubtibance oi tha : present CKpffirdrorski * isi ^ o ^ sBfcdfyn contained , and wJudh ^ if itiv ^ e tctewy < aniwato& mitanmwvakQt ' Beeiife amnothi * afcswer
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to IbeSecoud . TUfe , therefore , I uq , dertook With m 641 resolution to be an adversary to yx » r errors , but a Mend and 6 etv » At to your person , and so much the more a itiwd to your per son , by bo ^ » i * eh the severer « od more rigid adversary I was to yo \ ir
errors /* In the 44 th Section of this Preface , ( not paged , ) what Mr . C writes is a full refutation of tbe accusation , sch ism : € ( Neither is it always of necessity schismatical to separate from the
external communion of a church , though wanting nothing necessary . For if tfcis church , supposed to want notliing necessary , require JP $ e to profess against ray conscience , that I believe some naxour , though ** ever so smaU and Innocent , wMch I do » ot believe , and
will not allow n > e h ^ r conacounion but upon tins condition ; in t \ m ease the church , for requiring this condition , is schismatical , and not I for separating from the ehittch . "
Archbishop Laud , in the dedication of hi * book against Mr . F ^ her , to Charles the Rr $ t , md wideh Aivt king so strongly recommended to bis son * makes an observation which mm be
quoted against other churches besides the Roman : " The errors of the € hurch of Bocae are growne now <« iajiy of them ) very old . And iwben errors we growne by
&ge and continjuance to etrength , they which speak for tib « truth , tbough it be forre older , are ordinarily qhalle » ged for the bringere m of new opinions-A » d there is ^ no greater absurdity stirring this day fa Christeudome , theu that t £ e reformation of an old ,
corrupted Chuircfcj ' WiU'we , © ill we , must be takem for the building of a » ew The Ajdb ^ isjtiop tohm 43 om » e » t «» p . 95 , cm Luke k . lo : " Christ saith , , Me tfoe heweth you , kearethme * Thto mA dbaahi * ety ^ me In ifee « po « tkfi > who kept themsdve >
te > titot wUhOtm « Ml iMM ^ d . ibJr iCchniC . But it wa $ tt > be bm ; ^ onditio »» ily tj ^ in their 6 ucoe « 0 < w ^ ^ J [ fith ^* eftr ^» yo « , JiQwath ) M ^^ : ; . aShM ( i ^ f » o i ^ fS md ^ so ferre as you ^ peak ^ wy worda ,
Mia < l > 0 fcyyop » : iQ ^ •»« X 3 iidded ; ^^ ji !» Mtll \ iBtewt 9 ~ m& * e »<™ < dl \ mtzmat b \ & \ ym ; mtw dW * J **^ , all things what you please , but au things which I have "commanded you . The publicationtiiofi >« s , the doctrine
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4 $ 8 Extracts and Ancadotejs from Mr . Cornish *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1820, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2491/page/24/
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