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with whatever has been written in its defence , the works of Locke , Hobbes , Spinoza , Le Clerc , Bayle , Milton , Toland , Clendon , and all the professed Free-thinkers , are full of this unlimited power of private judgment ;
it being their first adventure to play this principle against the judgment and authority of the church . " Even that virulent Churchman , " the learned Mr . Lesley , ' is supposed to have given too much 6 C the advantage to private judgment , " and thus to " lessen the just authority of the church /'
Not content to rely on answers , a clergyman , named Hilliard , preferred an indictment against a bookseller and his servant " for selling him one of the Rights , " and they appear to have been prosecuted in the Queen ' s Bench . The following sentences , in one of the
passages , presented in the indictment , from Rights , p . 7 & , would be very likely to offend Mr . Hallett , or such a claimant of Presbyterian authority , derived from the apostolic age , as Mr . Peirce .
" A clergyman , 'tis said , is God's embassador , therefore the people neither collective or representative can make one , because they have no power to send embassadors from heaven . But , taking embassadors in that sense , it will , I am afraid , prove there are now no clergymen ; since they who
pretend to the sole power of making them , can as little send an embassador from God , who alone chooses his own embassadors . Christ and his apostles , as they were commissioned by God , so they brought their credentials with them , visible to mankind . —But what
credentials , or what mission can these gentlemen pretend to ? Or what gospel , never before known to the world , are they to discover ? Are they not at the best only commentators , notemakers or sermon-makers on those
doctrines which the embassadors of God once delivered to the saints FYet they do not scruple to call their pulpit-speeches the word of God , and apply those texts to themselves which belong only to the embassadors of God . "
P . 134 , col . 2 . " Dr . Edmund Calamy . " It is possible that the circumstance of Dr . C . ' s having omitted to subscribe , and being thus liable to exposure , may account for the " neutral part" he acted " in the great disputes
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which were carried on among the D 3 & senters in 1718 and the following years , concerning Subscription to the first Article of the Church of England . " Dr Kippis very justly and characteristicall y adds , ' * Dr . Calamy lost some credit , by not being one of the seventy-three
ministers who carried it against sixty-nine , for the Bible in opposition to human formularies . " ( Biog . Brit . III . 144 . ) I trust your readers will attend to your suggestion , and assist ^ as I am persuaded many of them are able , in the elucidation of a very curious tale of other times . J . T . RUTT .
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Sir , IN a Memoir lately published of our highly-respected friend Dr . Lindsay , by one intimately acquainted with him , is the following passage : " None " ( of his hearers ) " could be at a loss
to know , that his sentiments did not agree with some of those which were held by persons who in modern times have assumed the appellation of Unitarians , and more especially such as concerned the person of Christ and the efficacy of his mediation : they must be well apprised , that he asserted
and maintained the Unity of God , and admitted only one object of religious worship . " Many a pleasant and instructive day have I spent in company with Dr . Lindsay and the writer of this memoir , both of whom I
considered , and of both of whom I have always spoken as Unitarians- I desire no better proof of the sentiments of our departed friend than the words of the memorialist : " He asserted and maintained the Unity of God , and admitted only one object of religious
worship . " Can there be a more appropriate description of an Unitarian 1 As to the opinions which our excellent friend maintained concerning the person of Christ , as they did not derogate from the honour ta-be paid by religious worship to his God and our God , they have nothing to do with his claim to
the title of Unitarian ; at the same time , the peculiar opinions held by him are very properly brought forward ; as distinguishing . the class of Unitarians to which he belonged . The passage I have quoted would have been free from all obscurity , if the writer had modified the expression with respect to those persons to whom
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224 Mr , Frend on a Passage in Dr . Rees ' s Sermon for Dr . Lindsay .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/32/
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