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sinints in behalf of " the Protestapt religion /* which they say was ' * never yet staixed with the least drop of the blood of a king , " as if the blood of a peasant , if not more pure , were not < equally precious . " These very men , "
says this anonymous unmasker , " could join with the Presbyterian Lords and Commons , in making war against the King , and sending an army ' ( in which Baxter iand others rode , as chaplains ) " to shed his blood in the high places of the field . " He adds , referring to a circumstance which J never met with
elsewhere — " If God had not had a greater care of his anointed , than of their rebellious pretences , that bullet from the Earl of Essex his cannon , which grazed at the king ' s heels , as he
was kneeling at his prayers on the side of a bank , had taken away his life ; aud the Presbyterian reli g ion , such , as it is , had been stained with the blood of a king . "
P . S / 3 , col . 2 . A very mystical author has wrote lately to pr . Bentley . " In Biog * RriU II- 230 , it is noticed , that in 1716 the Doctor had two printed letters inscribed to him— " concerning his intended edition of the Greek
TestameuV I > r . Kippis adds , ( p . 244 , > that Dr . Bentley ' * took the resolution of not letting the work appear in the world during his own life , " and that " it is ew > w [ 1780 ] in the possession of his executor / 1
Ibid . ** The disputed passage in John . Considering who was the writer of this letter , it ia worthy of remark that P or son , in his " Letters to Travis , " ( 1790 , ) p . 320 , refers to t € two archbishops , Wake and Secker % and five bishops , who have all applied the verse to prove the Trinity , without
mentioning apy argument against it , or producing any in its behalf , " Ibid . " Printed edition ^ . " In Phil . Lips . 1713 ( Pt . i . xcvi . ) , for , Bentley , speaking of €€ Robert Steveas ' s edition " ^ equated the standard , " adds
" if the conceit" of its accuracy " in all points , —is but spread and propagated , within a few years that p rinter ' s infallibility will be m zealously maintained a $ f an evaogeUst ' a or an apostle ' s . "
Ibid , " Twenty MSS . of IQOO years each * . " Dr . B $ ntley €€ intended ta make no use of , aay MS , in th % edition tV #£ was not a tfiousand years q 14 ° * ^ bove , of which , sort Us had got at that time
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twe $ ty together ia \ m stwiyv yririch made up , one with , wotftei : ^ %$ 0 fQ years . " J 3 iog . Brit . II . 230 . Ibid . € t A paper under tfee name of Censor , " published in Mist ' s Weekly
Journal . To thU papsr jneopmd was a frequent contributor . Shjq Qib * ber ' s Lives , V . 277-P . 574 . " Jerry Hunt . ' |> r . Jeremiah Hunt died in 1744 ^ aged 66 . Dr . Lardner presiched his funemji ' fermon at Pinners' H 9 . ll , and copWMjed with a short biographical account .
From this it appears , that Dr .. ^ Hunt v ^ as , like Mr . Fox ^ friend Burroughs , ( 193 , ) a preacher , in the proper . Bepse of the expression . On fyeing invited t ) y * a small English coagregatioa £ | t Amsterdam , " while a atiide&t " at I ^ eyden , " he adopted aud pursued through life the method of < c preachii ^; with * out notes , that being the universal custom abroad—he did not write but his sermons at length 5 " OtQ repeat ; them memoriter ;} " Quthiavmg , with care and diligent oxaminatioi ^ , made
himself master of las te ^ ct aud s ubj ect , and well digested bis tkongUts > he clothed them m , the language , which oflFered in the delivery Whipb i < x qie /* adds I * a relner , ( praising , withfclsugual candour , an acconvplishBient wipq ^ h ^
had not himself cultivated , ) appears an excellent n ^ th od , when thors aro sufficient abilities for it . I meaji 9 , stock of knowledge , readii ^ s ' of
thought and a good jnemory ?* flrorte t X , ill , 112 . Accqr | img to the ) V ^ dicious JLqxd&er , how ** WW pf , pw Readers ought to becojpe r ^ | ^ if they woula escape the impwtatiou or possessing an luipocupisd i ^ U
Hid . « ' M * . Pope w 4 My , Gay have published a new farce whifcU was damned / ' \\ was ^ comedy of three acts , entitled T % reejffwr $ qfttt M < tr riagt i " writtea ^* saya ttpfe ^ on ^ ( 1783 , IH . 114 , ) " by the joint
assistance of Pppe and AxbuthjQot , One purpose of it was to bring ipito cantewvpt 13 i :. Wo ^ w ^ the foci ^ ijfet , a man not really or justly contemptible . It had tfoe fyfat \ ybicb such . outraifes deserve ;—^ 4 tbe p <^ formwce w ^ 4 r ( I C M iv $ fi off ^ e 3 ta |? e with gftA ^ * - de ^ u ^ utioa . ^ In Ja&aba ' Xwiical Regj «* r ,. iT& > h U 6 > m Mm m witJa 9 f
cftarg ^ a ow « vces * mw fenuUQ mpd ^ ety / ' for wMcjb , * t migjfjt UW * t t * pea de ^ ery ^ ly ? 4 iuw ^ iv x Jk the same vqJ \ xi » q Cu . % 2 $$ ) i § m ^ tHOQed
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Natie * on the Memoirs qf ~ Mr . > J * Fm * ipJS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 725, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/29/
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