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Sir , April 2 , 1822 . / ^ wNE of your correspondents ( p . \ J 156 ) has quoted " the exclamation" of " the pious father , " credo
quhi impossibile est . This ground for belief , especially in a Trinity , I find to have been a favourite resource of the pious and learned Sir Thomas Browne , his " firm footing" and his * ' solid rock , " as appears in Relig-io
Medici , Sect ix . ( He begins by remarking : € As for those wingy mysteries in divinity and airy subtleties in religion which have unhinged the brains of better heads , they never stretched the pia mater of mine . " Nor , indeed , was there any
danger of such an accident , for he immediately complains . that " there be not impossibilities enough in relig ion for an active faith , " adding , " I love to lose myself in a mystery , to pursue my reason to ] an O altitudo ! Tis my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved ajnigmas and riddles of the Trinity . " And now , lest while pursuing such
rather hazardous recreations he might forget " to keep the road in divinity , " and to " follow the great wheel of the church , as he had resolved , " ( Sect . vi >) he proceeds to " answer all the objections of Satan and rebellious reason with that odd resolution , learned of Tertullian , ' it is true , because
it is impossible . ' " As the Deity , according to Trinitarians , ( excepting a comparatively few learned Eclectics , ) could be born , it was quite consistent that he should he subject to the other great law of
humanity . Thus orthodox Christians , hoth the learned and the unlearned , have not scrupled , or rather have been * 'ager to represent the salvation of the world , as depending on that moment ,
When God , the mighty maker , died For man , the creature ' s sin . " I will add an example from each ' ^ nomination .
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Dr . Young , in his Night Thoughts , adoringly celebrates the crucifiaion afc ( i extended Deity for human weal ;" while , as lately as 1806 , in the eon >
eluding couplet of an epitaph , more pious than poetical , a departed Christian is tuade to console his mourning survivors with . this representation of his celestial occupations :
< c Electing love 1 loud proclaim , And worship God , on Calvary slain . ** These lines any person , who passes the churchyard in Horsleydown , may read , as I have often done , on a g ravestone \ n memory of - ** Mjr . James Smitji . " R . L . C .
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Pont ale . Sir , April 4 , 1822 . MAN Y of your readers are , I dare say , well acquainted with . that curious autobiography , The J 4 , fe of Mr . Anthony A . Wood , " published at Oxford in 1772 . I have met > vit ^ h
two or three passages which bring us as it were , behind the scenes , an $ assist to settle questions of some importance . For instance , those who cannot satisfy themselves whether the doctrine of the Church of England be Galvinistic or Arminian , or , as my Lord of" jVin-Chester , via Lincoln , contends ,
between both , may receive some assistance in their inquiry from the following record , which also contains a most extraordinary reading of John iii- 16 : " An . Dom . 1673 , Jan . Richards , Chaplain of All Souls , preached at St . Marie ' s , God so loved the world that he
gave films elf up , &e . Dr . Barlow , Vice-( Jhaucellour , [ Bishop of Lincoln in 1675 >] called him in question for it , because he 'insisted much on the Arminian points . " ( P . 249 . )
The following paragraph will serve to exhibit the pleasant manner in which that nursing father of the Church of England , Charles II ., her * ' most religious king " , " amused himself with hid supremacy ; on the death of Archbishop Sheldon :
" 1677 , Nov . 26 . Divers woulfl be asking the King , who should be Archbishop , who to put off and stop their uioutns , he would ( ell them , Tom Bai-
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truth , I am , notwithstanding , stilx willing t ° k * unlearned attempts , and to meet the laugh , and will promise Mr . Belshaoa not to be indignant , though I might be sorry , should he unite in it . ^ TEULON .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/43/
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