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honestly confess , and be careful to amend * I can hear nothing of the Dissenters * representation , and am i nclined to think there was no such thing done , because in an address which
they have now drawn up , they have only insinuated their desires by wishing themselves as capable as they are willing to be of more public sendee , ( those are the words , ) and even had some debate whether they should say so much . What effect this and the
endeavours of their friends in the House will have , cannot be foretold , and indeed , at present , it is a little uncertain when the Parliament will sit . There has been of late a quarrel in the ministry . Some say it arose from
personal pique ; others say his Majesty is displeased with those that were the most forward for the prosecutions , because it appears there was not evidence to carry them on ; others say part of them were against the French alliance ; and others , stranger things yet . There is full as great an uncertainty about
the Swedish affair . The persons seized upon , you see , are discharged * the papers they say are not opened yet , and the Secretary , it seems , had time to tear several before they could break into the closet . I have it from pretty good hands , that the design is as old as the Queen ' s time , and that there are
copies of letters to the King of Sweden desiring assistance , and setting forth the strength of their party , especially amongst the common people and clergy . The author of the State Anatomy , which has made so much noise , is Mr . Toiand , who , they say , is likely to be prosecuted for it . The Bishop of Bangor will certainly publish a second part of his Preservative , &e ., in a little
time . That best of clergymen grows every day bolder for the truth than ever . He has been preaching lately against the ceremonies and repetitions of the Common Prayer , from these words , " Ye men of Athens , I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious . " And to a friend of mine who
was saying that some of the foreign churches had abolished confessions and subscriptions , and one particularly ordained a minister upon this general ° ne , That there was one God , and Jesus Christ was his prophet , —Why , there would be no * need , says he , of our professing any more of it , were it not for soiae of ear leading men thai
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do not believe so much . But now we talk of confessions , what a learned one a gentleman in the West has made lately , and how it must edify the hear * ers to understand that the mutual at *
tractions of bodies was as their quantities of matter directly , and the squares of their distance reciprocally I And , without doubt , a man that was acquainted with the sublimation of the
vapours in the natural alembics of the hills , must be able to raise the affections of his auditory to heaven without difficulty . But a confession of faith in Sir Isaac will have more
divinity in it I believe , in the judgment of your great men , than such a preface as Mr . Chandler has put to this same book . He makes no scruple of telling the world that the essence of a minister consists in his fitness and the people ' s
choice , and that all his brethren do , is declaring him to be such antecedently to their declaration , and then giving him good advice and praying for him . And upon his proposing the question , What then is the use of ordination i
he answers , If you mean by ordination , imposition of hands , ask them that know , for I do not . In the apostles * time it was a method of conveying miraculous gifts , &c * And this he declares for certain truth without
regarding , as he says , the censures of fallible , partial men . What censure Mr . Peirce will pass upon this notion of ordination , he best knows . Mr * Peirce ' s ^ sermon upon Jan . 30 , is pub *
lished , and they say is a very good one . A very mystical author has wrote lately to Dr . Bentley in defence of the disputed passage in John , which he understands the Doctor designs to leave out in his intended edition of the Gr . T .
TheDoctor sent him a very short answer , by which it appears he is not resolved upon the matter ; that he intends to make not the least use of conjecture , nor printed editions , nor modern
uianuscripts of less than 700 years * standing ' , but has got 20 manuscripts of 14 ) 00 years each , which agree almost entirely , and by the help of which he does not question to exhibit the text , such aa it was before the Council of Nice ,
without fifty words difference . There is a paper lately published , under the name of the Censor , in imitation of the Spectators , but infinitely inferior to them . Jerry Burroughs V girl is to be chris tened to + oight . Mr * Monkiey > * buy is
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tv Mr * J 6 ) m Fox . $£ 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 573, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/5/
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