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Siit , IN a conversation in the House of Commons on the Catholic Disabilities * Removal Bill > Lord Nugent observed , in reply to some charges of bigotry and intolerance against the Roman Catholic religion , " that in no
part of the service of the Roman church was there any thing of an exclusive nature to be found . It contained no such damnatory creed as the Athanasian Creedy which formed part of our own service "
Now , Sir , pleased as I am to find the " monstrous Creed / ' as it has been called , thus spoken of in Parliament , I cannot but feel surprise at Lord Nugent ' s statement , and beg to
ask of your correspondents whether the Athanasian formulary be not in the Romish Missal , ( it is certainly adopted by the Church of Rome , ) and whether it do not form at times part of the Romish service ?
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No . CCCLXXVIII . Simplicity of the Divine Proceedings . An eminent author has made this a character of the Divine conduct and wisdom , —to act always by the most simple ways . Upon which principle he lays a great weight , drawing from it consequences of the greatest importance to the order both of nature and
grace . Now I must needs say , that this appears to me a very clear and certain proposition with respect to God , which our most excellent author thus briefly at once demonstrates and explains : I suppose , says he ,
that God would have the body A should strike against the body B . Now since God knovns all things , he well knows that A can go to strike B by innumerable crooked lines and by one only right one . But God only wills that A should strike B . And we sup-
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pose , that he wills the transport of A towards B for no other purpose , b » t only for the sake of this impulse . Therefore A must be transferred towards B by the shortest way , or by & right line . For if the body A were transferred to B by a crooked line
that would shew either that the transporter knew no other way , or else that he did not only will the concourse of these bodies , but also the means to effect it , otherwise than in relation to the concourse itself , which is against
the supposition . Again , says he , there is as much more action requisite to transfer a body from A to B by a crooked line , than by a right line , as the crooked is greater than the right . If therefore God should transfer A to
B by a crooked line , double to a right , half the action of God would be wholly useless . And so one half of it would be done without design , and without any end , as -well as without effect . Moreover , says he , action in God is will . Therefore there must be more
will in God to make A to be transported circularly than directly . But now we have already supposed that God had no will as to the motion of A , but Only with respect to the
impulse . Therefore there is not will enough in God to move A by a crooked line . And , consequently , 'tis a contradiction that A should move by a crooked line to B . And so it is a
contradiction that God should not act by the most simple ways , unless we suppose that God in the choice of the ways he makes use of to execute his designs , has something else in view besides those same designs , which in our supposition is a contradiction . Other considerations he has to this
purpose , and from the whole concludes , that , according to this manner of conceiving things , God cannot employ more will than Ue needs must to execute his designs . So that he always acts by the most simple ways with relation to them . Norris ' s Treatise of Christian Prudence . Pp . 137—139 .
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296 Athanusian Creed . —GUemiiigs
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GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/40/
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