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228 Reply to Senior on Irish Presbytenanism .
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" The Power of the Christ of God ; or a Treatise of the Power , as it is originally in God the Father , and by him given to Christ his Son , " &c ., J 641 . Several Sermons , as , 1 . cc Zion ' s Answer to < the Nation ' s Embassadors , ' * &c .: Fast Sermon before the House of Commons , 25 th June , 1645 , * on Isaiah xiv . 32 . 2 . " Sermon on I Cor . iii . I ? , " 1653 .
" The Gospel ' s Glory , without Prejudice to the Law , shining forth in the Glory of God the Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , for the Salvation of Sinners , who through Grace do believe , according to the Draught of the Apostle Paul in Rom . iii . 34 , " 1659 .
Whether any other matters were by him published , I know not , nor any thing else of him , only that after he had been ejected from Long Ditton for Nonconformity , he retired to Mortlake in Surry , where , dying in 1664 , he was buried in the church there , leaving this character behind him ,
sham College , where he was Professor of Astronomy , See Ward ' s Lives pp . 74—76 . Jt Is remarkable that this learned person has no place in the Biog . Brit . Edward Brerewood was a native of Chester , and ' sometimes an auditor of N . Byfield , against whose sabbatical notions he wrote " A Treatise of the Sabbath , ' which coming in MS . into the hands of N , Byfield , and by him answered , was replied upon b y Brereivood , in c A Second Treatise of the Sabbath . ' John Ley wrote partly against him in his
Sunday a Sabbath . An old and zealous Puritan , named Theophilus Brabourne , an obscure schoolmaster , or , as some say , a minister of Suffolk , was very stiff for a Sabbath , in his books published 1628 and 16 * 31 . Thomas Broad , who was esteemed an Anti-Sabbatarian ^ did write almost to the same effect that Brerewood did . "
Brerewood f < never published any thing while he enjoyed this earthly tabernacle , yet , to avoid the fruitless curiosity of that which some take upon them , to huoxo only that they may knowy he was even- most ready in private , either by conference or writing , to instruct others ,
impairing unto them , it they were desirous of his resolution , in any doubtful points of learning within the ample circuit of his deep apprehension . "—Wood , 1 . 332 , 333 . * The day of " the Monthly Fast . " } Vhitelovhv p . 147 . ( Lignarius . )
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Liverpool , Sir , -, Sprite , 1822 . YOUR correspondent Senior fp . 167 ) endeavoured to point out the advantages of Presbytcrianism Ireland . Circumstances may , perhaps , exist in that country , which render useful or even necessary some kind of church government , which elsewh ere would be deemed decidedly hostile to that liberty " wherewith Christ has made us free $ " but 1 have been
misinformed if tlie Irish Synods are merely " tribunals for the preservation of temporal funds and property /' " No creed , " says Senior , " is imposed > no authority is assumed over conscience ; no absolute power of decision , but simply the Christian right and duty of exhorting , of admonishing ,
or warning . " in opposition to these assertions , I have been led to believe , from good authority , that these e £ ctesiastical bodies have the power of putting down religious discussion whenever they please , for by their laws , if I am not mistaken , no book or tract involving theological opinion can be
published , unless the MS . first undergoes the inspection of the Presbytery , who can withold certain pecuniary benefits from those who are hardy enough to resist their mandates . Here is " authority over conscience" with a vengeance , and a pretty effectual
damper it has been to all reform beyond a certain defined limit , prescribed by the warrant of individuals . In short , religious information and inquiry is at as low an ebb in Ireland as can well be conceived ; nor will it be otherwise till the unhallowed shackles of ecclesiastical domination be totally broken , and consigned to the darkness whence they sprung . oisiu
Were our brethren in the Kingdom to resolve on thus emancipating themselves , I believe the en ergy of truth and right reason would do more for them , than calling in the un * scripturul aid of constituted autho rities to propagate Presbytenanisffl ' nor would the assistance of the " Church of Scotland ; which is invoked in one of their recent reports
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among the godly , and such that frequented his conventicles , that he was a pious , good and harmless man . " ( Athen . Oxon . ) ^ LIGNARIUS . ^ 7 ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/36/
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