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fools of the poet , *• rush in where " a ngels feaf to thread ; ** or , « o adopt the language of TliOttias Tymme , before quoted , we iind thfcm " rushing ia to those matters whereof they have no knowledge . " €
The fifth chapter , g concerning * the small number pf them that shall be saved / ' shews that Thomas Tyrame could reconcile his mind to a confident persuasion of the never-ending" torments of a very large majority of his fellow-creatures ; supporting this opinion from fsa . xxiv . 13 , on which he
thus comments ( 89 ) : — " How seldom e do olives hang upon the tree after it is shaken ; and how seldome are grapes found upon the vines after the vintage ; even so few shall be saved out of the number of men / ' From
2 Esdras viii . 2 , also he concludes that " those that be most excellent , are most rare ; much clay but little gold , great plenty of common stones , but of pretiouj stones very few . " Not only " among Christians few shall be saved , " but also " Ethnicks , Jews , Sarazens ,
Heretikes , and such like , without aH doubt perish . " The following are described as refusing to enter at the strait gate : gg The Family of Love have a peculiar gate : the Anabaptists and Libertines a wide £ ate : and the Brownists and Barrowists , at this tinae , a fantastical gate . "
It is interesting to observe the opposite conclusions , on this subject , at which learned and reflecting Calvinists have arrived , while attempting to * justify the ways of God to man , " without explaining away the fundamental articles of their system . The most striking contrasts I now recollect are the conclusions of Lewis Du Moulin and
roplndy . The former , who , according to Wood , ( A . O . II . 763 , ) was appointed by the Long Parliament , " Cam-Am Professor of History" at Oxford , published , in 1680 , ( the year of his death , aged 77 , ) " Moral Reflexions upon the Number of the Elect ; proving plainly from Scripture Evidence , &c ,
that not One in a Hundred Thousand , vnay probably not One in . a Million , ) from A ( J | am down to our Times , shall ? e saved ; * ' Toplady , on the contrary , In nts Scheme ef Necessity , ( 1775 , P- * 21 , ) says , that " undoubtedly there are elect Jews , elect ? Mahometans , and eIect ^ ww ^ aiM -that " with resoect
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to the few reprobates , we m&v , aadp vnght to , r ^ sigti tie dis ^ ptfaJW * & ; implicitly , to the will of t& ^^ m King who can do no wrong /* He &Is © thus writes , " to a very eminent Antfr Calvinian Philosopher /* now wc % known to have been Dr . Pri gf tlejr r — gi are Calvin ' s doctrines repfce * seated as gloomy ^? Is H gloomy to b ^^ lieve , that th £ far greater part of ttoe human race are niacfe for endless Jicuppi ness ? There can , I tfaink , be no reasoitl able doubt entertained concerning tii £
salvation of very young persons . If ( as some , who have versed themselves in this kind of speculation , aflfirm ) " about one half of mankind die in infancy ; aad if , < as indubitable observation proves , a verV
considerable number of the remaining half die in childhood ; and if , as there is the strongest reason to think , many millions of those , who live to maturer years , in every successive generation , have thek " names in the Book of Life : then , what
a very small portion , comparatively , of the humau species * falls under the decree of Praeterition and Non-Redemption V * To recur once more to the Silver Watch-BelL On " our love to our brethren , " a subject which occupies a large part of the seventh chapter ,
Thomas Tymme is somewhat pleasant x > n the profession of the law . He represents * one man" as a divell to another , homo homini deemon , " so that * ' if his neighbour do darrvmfie him but the value of twa pence , he will provide a conserve of Westminster ^ Hull worm **
wood for him out of hand . " The following work , mentioned by Robert Robinson , ( Claude , II . 190 , ) was , I apprehend , by the same hand ^ " Discovery of Ten English JLepers 9 very Noisome to the Church . 1 . A Schisinaticke . 2 . A Church ^ Robber . 3 . A Simoniacke , &c . By Tho . Tinanie , 1592 . " I have observed two or three
articles , attributed to thi& author , m the Catalogue of the B . Museum , but neither the JFatch-Bell nor jyticodkry Thomas Tymme was probably a scholar of Cambridge , otherwise the researches of Wood had placed him among the Oxford writers . VERMICULUS
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On Unitarian Missionary Preaching . & 9 B
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V ( > l . xvi . 4 n
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Sir , fTpHERE are two ways to serve « t JL good cause . The one by rei&ov * ing false impressions that have bcett
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/25/
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