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were it not for the influence of a fixed National Creed , upheld and prospered by a gracious Providence , we should long since , according to all human probability , have had our land overrun with Popery , Socinianism and Infidelity ; ' and were it
not for the providential interference of Episcopal vigilance , exactly adapting its salutary measures to the times and seasons , notwithstanding all our Articles , bulwarks of the Faith as they are , and ever have been , we might be exposed to perils from our treacherous friends within , far more to be dreaded thau any perils
from our open enemies without . It is upon the principle of self-defence from such treachery that this Prelate , who has so frequently and successfully shewn himself a zealous champion of the Church , comes forward , with a manly and open spirit of inquiry , to . probe and sift the minds of the Candidates most thoroughly and
without reserve , on those parts particularly which have of late become more interesting , from the manner in which they have been distorted even by some of our own ministers ; and it is for the sake of excluding such , and not with the most distant view , as this author would
insinuate , of imposing any new articles of his own , or of indulging a passion for innovation ; but inspired with an honest zeal to contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered to the Saints , not to the modern Saints , who arrogate to themselves exclusively the name , though , with
the same breath , they scruple not to call themselves the most desperate Sinners , but to the Saints of old , who maybe now looking down from on high , and rejoicing with the angels over this one among the many pious efforts of this Prelate to frustrate the machinations of the common
Adversary , who never enjoys a greater triumph than when he is able to pervert Holy Writ , and make the very articles of Faith , upon which we all rely for truth and consolation , turn directly by artful devices against the Church itself . "—Pref , pp . xiv . xv .
Dr . Hawker ' s services would , we believe , have been willingly dispensed with by his " Evangelical' * brethren on this occasion . He has asserted Calvinism so broadly and obnoxiously , that it has been found expedient to disown him as an Antinomian . His relentless
system , including what Calvin himself called the decretum horribile , would mar the union of the two sects , before described , of Evangelical Churchmen . He will therefore be regarded as an intruder in the Peterborough warfare . Perhaps , too , his brethren form a
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juster estimate than he himself of his controversial powers . He is confident and fearless , and has that species of eloquence wnich consists in saying whatever one likes , and in the crudest
manner , which will sometimes look like originality ; but he is unequal to the conflict with Bishop Marsh , and would do wisely to content himself with the greatness that he has attained
amongst a portion of ^ the good people of that warlike outport Plymouth , and especially " the Lord's people , " " the companions and brethren of his pilgrimage , " in Charles .
The Doctor dwells upon the doctrine of the " Holy Trinity . " He is indignant at the Bishop of Peterborough ' s questions concerning the offices of the Three Persons ; shrewdly guessing that herein is wrapped up some design of abolishing the Tri-une
Personality . Yet this sound divine describes the " glory of the Holy undivided Trinity" in these following ** acts z" God the Father choosing the Church , God the Son marry Ing the Church , God the Holy Ghost regenerating the Church "!—P .
17-This mystical jargon is bad enough , but there is something worse in the Vicar of Charles ' s bigotry . " That man , " says the oracular Devonshire divine , ( p . 20 , ) " be he who he may , who merely professeth his belief that there is a God , doth in effect virtually
deny him , while he acknowiedgeth not the Scripture testimony of God , that he exists in a Trinity of Persons . " So then , suppose Dr . Hawker could call up from their graves Moses and John the Baptist , and they should refuse to follow him in his Athanasian
Creed , —he would call them Atheists to their faces .
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546 Review . C — WellbelovecPs Sermon on the Death of Mrs . . Cappe .
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Art . VI—The Nature and Reward of Christian Watchfulness . A Sermon , preached in the Chapel in St . Sauiourg-ate , York , on Sunday , 4 k-
gf / st 5 th , 1821 , on occasion of the Death of Mrs . Catharine Cappe , Relict of the late Rev . N . Cuppe-By the Rev . C . Wellheloved . 8 vo . pp . 56 . York , printed ; sold 1 > V Longman and Co ., Hunter and Eaton . MRS . CAPPED was an admirable and venerable character * !"
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 546, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/42/
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