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ration , " the Lord' * is the representative of the proper name Jehovah , which was never used but of the true God , and which is as much an appellative as Moses , Isaiah or Jesus ; the unity of the Lord is still more obviously a self-evident proposition , and
the design must have been to assert that he is the only God , in opposition to the claims of all other pretended deities , and is , therefore , entitled to the whole of the religious affections of all his creatures—to express which
sense we must render the words , "The Lord our God , the Lord is the only God ; " or , if we please , in two clauses < £ The Lord is our God ; the Lord is the only God . " W . HINCKS .
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following fact / ' for wt&gii he thus quotes " Smollett's History of England , Vol . XIII . p . 319 : " ' The Scottish Commissioners ^ fo 0 came up to make a tender of their crown
( anno 1689 ) to Khig William , ( and who were , the Earl of Argyle for the Lord ^ Sir James Montgomery for the Knights , and Sir Johii Dairymple for the Boroughs , ) being introduced to their Majesties at Whitehall , presented first a preparatory Letter from the Estates , then the
Instrument of Government , with a paper coutaining a recital of the grievances of the nation , and an Address desiring his Majesty to convert the Convention into a Parliament . The King having graciously promised to concur with them in all just measures for the interest of the kingdom , the coronation-oath was tendered to their
Majesties by the Earl Argyle . As it contained a ciause , importing , that they should root out heresy , the King declared , that he did not mean by these words , that he should be under an obligation to act as a persecutor . 'The Commissioners
replying , that such was not the meaning or import of the path , he desired them , and others present , to bear witness to the exception he had made . " Mr . Lindsey is confirmed in the opinion of King William ' s liberality by Burners remark , ( O . T . 1689 , Fat
II . 24 , ) that " when the King ami Queen took the oaths , the King explained one word in the oath , by which he was bound to repress heresiesy that he did not by this bind hixaself to persecute any for their conscience ^ There re mains , however * a
higher authority on this subject , published in 1 G 97 , eight years before Burnet wrote , and in a work compiled expressly in honour of the king . The small volume to which I refer , is called in tl * e head lines , " The Royal Almanack / ' and thus entitled , " Fasti Guliehni Tertii : ox , an Account of
the most memorable Actions transacted during his Majesty ' s Life , both before and since tie Accession to the Crown : with the Days , Months ^ nd Years wherein the same hapn «(| . " Under the date of May 11 , 1689 , there is an account of the introduction pf the Commissioners from the Scottiqb
Convention to the Kin £ and Queea , at the Banquetuftg-beuse * Whitehall The Kkig inform * the Caramksiona ** lhat when he projected the e&p editioa into England , lie " had a &&rticuj * f regard < and consideration far Scodwro ' -
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70 King fVilliam mo Friend to Religious Liberty .
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Clapton , Sir , Jan . 19 , 1822 . OBSERVED , very lately , that Mr . I Lindsey , in one of his valuable publications , had adopted , from a modern historian , what appears to me to have been an erroneous , thougii common
opinion , respecting William III . Under this impression he represents that prince as favourable to religious liberty , more justly described as the civil ri g ht of all , publicly to profess their religious opinions , however differing from the conclusions of the learned
and the inquiring , or from the creeds taught by the " priest and the nurse " to that unreflecting multitude , the great and small vulgar . I refer to Mr . Lindsey's " Historical View of the State of the Unitarian
Doctrine , " published in 1783 . At p . 303 , my eminently candid friend , " still pleased to praise" whenever he could praise conscientiously , repeats Mr . Enalyn ' g sentiment , that " King
William was not willing to be inude a persecutor , " though " this great prince suffered nimself to be prevailed upon to pass an act" against Unitarians . This was the Act of 1698 .
professing " the effectual suppression of blasphemy and profaueness / ' but really designing to forbid the publication of their opinions , to all who should impugn ., however seriousl y ^ the Divine
authority of the Scriptures , or deny that tbey contained the doctrine of a Trinity . Mr . Xti&dsey sustains his opinion €€ that the king yielded to pass this Act with reluet « Bce > and through the necessity of the tknc& , from t £ e
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/6/
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