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All might belongs . Leap to thy ripened years—Mount thine immortal throne—and sway the world !
So sang a modern Unitarian poet , now deceased , and so prays every rational , as well as consistent , disciple of Jesus throughout Christendom . And thus most cordially , I trust , will the readers of your Miscellany join
along with your present correspondent , who offers no apology for the inculcation of these sentiments , and who subscribes himself , Yours respectfully , J . EVANS .
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Superstitious Corruptions of the Romish Chutch . 285
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Hachney , Sir , April 23 , 1821 . COINCIDING with one of your late correspondents , * that it may be worth while now and then to refresh
our memories with the history of the infallible Roman Church , I have taken my pen to endeavour , as far as my humble abilities will extend , to explode ' the mystery of iniquity" working there .
The splendour of the priestcraft , which has so recently blazoned its tawdry colours to the gaping eyes of a deluded multitude in the centre of this
metropolis , may claim some attention ; and when a real Christian gazes on the magnificent pageantry of the Moorfields' Chapel , I think it cannot but raise simultaneous emotions within his
breast , irresistibly impelling him to a conviction of the fallacy of such vanity , and make him blush for that portion of mankind who have so egregiously departed from the simplicity of primeval Christianity , " and changed the verity of God into lying , and have
worshiped and served the creature , rather than the Creator , who is blessed for ever . * ' The paraphernalia of the chapel may be very sumptuous , the priests may have every appearance of devotion in the performance of their sacerdotal
functions , the relics secreted in the bosom of the altar may possess great virtues , the holy pictures may have considerable merits , and the whole rouiul of Romish ceremonies may be very imposing j yet I am persuaded ? Mon , Repos , XV * 205 ,
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that all this is a delusion , the offspring of ignorance , fostered by superstition and supported by sophistry , falling far short of the adoration of " the Father in spirit and verity . "
From what appeared in a speciously misrepresenting paragraph in the " Catholic Advocate" for the 14 th of January last , 1 was 'induced to purchase Dr . Milner ' s " End of Religious Controversy , " a book I had often heard of , but never before seen ; on a superficial perusal of which , I was surprised to
find , not " arguments and reasoningsso specious , " but a volume of sophisms , carrying every appearance of truth , yet leading into error . The first I shall notice is an error broached by the Rector and confirmed by the Doctor . Speaking of the resurrection of Christ , ( Pt . I . p . 17 >) he says , " To the fact itself must be added also its
circumstances , namely , that he raised himself to Ufe by his oivn power / 9 But the apostles publicly proclaimed to the Jews , € < The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus , whom you did kill , hanging him upon a tree / ' Acts v . 30 z , and , unless the dignified extinguisher
of controversy has a gift of perception which I do not possess , he will find every other parallel passage in the Scriptures support the fact . The strongest in favour of the Rector ' s assumption , is John x . 17 : " Therefore the Father loveth me , because I
yield my life , that 1 may take it again . No man taketh it from me ; but I yield it of myself , and I have power to yield it , and I have power to take it again . This commandment I received frvm my Father / 9 But this is a foundation on which it cannot stand . At
p . 83 , Pt . I ., the Doctor quotes from Paul ' s Second Epistle to Timothy , iii . 16 : " All scripture is given by inspiration of God , and is profitable for doctrine , " &c . But what says the Vulgate ?—a translation which I ana sure the Doctor can find no fault
with ; and the edition of which I now use was printed at * ' Rhemes , by John Fo £ ny , 1582 , cum privilegio . " It says , " All scripture inspired of God is profitable to teach , to argue , to correct ,
to instruct in justice : that the man of God may be perfect , instructed to every good work . " Surel y there was no inspiration when Paul wrote to Timothy , " Drink not yet water , but use a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/29/
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