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tjite , delivered as it was by Vincent , was ijo " scriptural * k > $ trine , " Clarkson , after going more at large into , the subject * adds , " ** will not be necessary to detail the arguments brought forward in this controversy , in which
nothing was settled ;* ' but he describes the great intemperance betrayed by several of the Presbyterians , so that it was impossible to obtaina hearings This then was the cause for William Penn ' & writing the ** Sandy Foaodatiou Shaken , " which gave offence , from iUisbeing entirely misunderstood , as his " Ipnocency with her Open Face" \ yill ampjv testify .
And now suffer me to jQf& S some remarks upon the Unitarian preface to the <( Sandy Foundation Shaken , " wherein there are ( excuse me foV saying so ) two instances of an entire want of candour in the author . He mentions t ^ e commitment of William Penn to the Tower , by L-ord Arlington , the then Secretary of State . Can we then suppose him ignorant of the letter which William Penn
addressed to Lord Arlington , wherein he says , " truly were 1 as criminal as my adversaries have been pleased to represent me , it might become me to bear my present sufferings without the least resentment of injustice done , and to esteem a vindication of my cause an aggravation of my guilt ; but since it is so notorious that common fame hath
maliciously belied me , and that from invincible testimonies , I stand not guilty of what my adversaries would have so peremptorily fastened on me , confessing that eternal deity of Christ 91 ? Certainly no man will assert this is Unitarian doctrine , the € 4 eternal deity of Christ . " And now let me transcribe one of these
' * invincible testimonies , " which William Perm speaks of . They are not isolated passages to be hunted for through his works , but are to be found every where , where he speaks upon the subject ; infleed one characteristic stamps * both his life and writings , that of being led and guided by the spirit of Christ * . But ) let his letter to John Collynes , dated 1673 , speak for itself ! > -..
., " I wyi f £ ll .. $ M ? q im ^ fa ^ j ' m t \ \\ $ matter : 1 < Jo . ^ parl ^ y ^ e ^ yje th « tf Jesus Christ is ihp ^ fiJW , trug and everlasting God , by whom aTrtfaing | were made that are in the heaven £ abbve / or the earth beneath , ot ^ Sn tUe * yttiterz under the earth , that fie is omtiibo * e * nt , ' omniscient .
therefor * € » od ; thftf contest by hie in two books printed a little before the ' Sandy Foundation Shaken , ' viz . < Guide Mistaken * ( p . 28 ) and « Truth Exalted / ( pp . 14 , 15 , ) also at large in my lunoqency with her Open Face / 1 think 1 have
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dealt very honestly with thee ; lam sure to the satisfaction of my own conscience and it is not my fault if it be not to the better information of thine . " The other passage in the Unitarian preface is the following : " During this close imprisonment , the loud and general
clamours against him reached Pena ' s eyes or ears , and ifldtttfe&rfeim to write a small tracts which-fee catted aq Apology for the formon * < m&ywii& >< & # > intention of rewwting any of 4 hoae doctrines which he had so jrgoently professed to lay down on the immovable , basis of Scripture and right reason , but to clear himself from
aspersions cast upon him for writing the * Sandy Foundation Shaken . '" Yet , in this very Apology , which the Unitarian author considers as no recantation of the dactrine which he ascribes to the " Sandy Foundation Shaken / ' are to be found these unequivocal expressions : 1 am constrained , for the sake of the
simplehearted * to publish to the world of our faith in God , Christ and the Holy Spirit : We do believe in one holy God Almighty , who is an eternal spirit , the creator of all things , and in one Lord Jesus Christ , his only Son and express image of his
substance , who took upon him flesh , and was in the world ; and in life , doctrine , miracles , death , resurrection , ascension and mediation , perfectly did and does continue to do the will of God , to whose holy life , power , mediation and blood ,
we only ascribe our sanctiftcation , justification and perfect salvation . And we believe in one Holy Spirit that proceeds from the Father and the Son . as the life and virtue of both the Father and the Son , a measure of which is given to all to profit with ; and he that has one has all , for these three are one , who is the Alpha ami Omega , the first and the last , God
over all , blessed for ever . Amen . Now if this be riot a recantation , does it not clearly prove to every candid lover of truth , that William Penn ' s < c Sandy Foundation--Shaken" was totally misconstrued tfmd -wresfcfcri from its genuine mtmikig ? ,-, But jfy *©» the other hand , t t * # > e 4 H # r ' 8 preface j ^ io . be regarded as
txu , ^ , wh ^ reiq ^ Jie . ^ ya , J > € is " uot acqu ^ mte ^ . vyitj } . # . jiioqe *» anly and able viu ^ atwn ,, ^ ? £ fr A < ^ ^ W * Wi ^ , " ' then the Sandy oundatioii ShaKen ; tn \ it tieceMVHy % tfoVi ; Wat the apology is a recantation ; or ^ disaVovfrHl of his former sentiments , it beftfg indirect opposition to the principles which constitute
UnitariaiiiHiii . Let any unprejudiced mind rfad ' ^ following vindication > of himself , in Ln * juocency with her Ojpen face * " aud ih
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272 Letter on the Unitarian Edition of Penn 8 " Sandy Foundation Shaken *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/16/
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