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His own words are * ' * la an atones ment through the merits and death of £ faral , I Mm a ^ iro * believer . ** fttew , Si £ ftosie confesses his persuasion , that Jesus was the son of Joseph and ftfarjr ^ and kaw he can under any form entertain the idea of an atonement , does not , therefore , appear very clear . It must have been a great object gained at a small cost . In bis letter , dated Jan . 8 , 1824 , he states , " that he will yield to no one in being well-affected to the King and his Government , and to the united
Church of England and Ireland , as by law established ; " but denies , " that it is permitted to any member of it to assume the opinions of the infallible Church of Rome , without contradiction , in support of the Church of England , which is founded with all
humility as a fallible church . " , Sir Rose is charged with using language respecting the Redeemer and
the Trinity , too horrid to be printed $ but we are informed , that in consequence of the facilities furnished by Le Grice , it is not too horrid to be repeated again and again at every pit ' s mouth and on every mountain top in Cornwall : —thanks to the patient wisdom of the Reverend Gentleman . Like the Attorney General in the state prosecutions , he thinks such words
ought never to have been known , and should be carefully concealed from the public eye . They cannot be uttered by his tongue nor written by his pen ; but he can lend them wings , that they may fly to the remotest habitations of men , and he will commit them to the care of the airy nymph , " Quae ingeurinat voces , auditaque verba reportat . "
Sir Rose had said among other things , * ' that the King does not believe the doctrine of the Trinity any more tltfin he . ' * On which Le Grice remarks , c < That he had gone to
London and got himself introduced to Dr . Pearson , the King ' s private chaplain and spiritual adviser , and through his means had become acquainted with the fact of the King ' s private opinions ; which he would not have discovered , had Dr . P , been cautioned against the insidious design of the Baronet . " To which the latter replies , " That he never saw Dr . P . in
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his life , that he never emje ^ oured to see him ? ' but does not inform us ia what manner he became 5 acquainted with this important fact , which he seems to plead in justification of himself in his public capacity . It is amusing , however , to see how the gentlemen of the Church have taken the alarm on this bold declaration of the Baronet . Other letters
express the highest indignation at this liberty taken with bis Majesty's private opinions , which , in truth , have long been the subject of general conversation , but appear not until now to have reached the distant recesses
of Cornwall ; and denounce Sir Rose as guilty of little short of treason in making this declaration . But Le Grice goes beyond them all : " Do you think you diffuse loyalty by asserting that you know it for a fact , that with
respect to the Trinity , the King is of the same opinion as yourself ? I am bound to say that / do not , I cannot , I dare not , I will not believe this assertion , and I will frankly confess > that where your loyalty begins , mine would cease . "
A Reformer observes on this pas * - sage in the Cornwall Advertiser , " The Reverend Gentleman has always been ranked among the ultra or high Tories , and as he prides himself not a little on his undeviating consistency , both in religion and politics , I must take his frank avowal of conditional
allegiance 9 as that of the party to which he belongs . Therefore , the prime doctrine of legitimacy , that of the divine right of kings , must , henceforth , be regarded as abjured on the part of the Tories , by no less a person than the Rev . C . V . Le Grice ,
Secretary to the Penzance branch of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ! This is news to me . Hitherto it has been considered by the Tories a just ground for impeaching the loyalty of the Reformers , tlrat they have held the doctrine , that a violation of the civil compact on the
part of the Sovereign , by any gross invasion of the constitutional rights of the subjects , severed the bonds of allegiance , and rendered resistance to an authority thus made illegal , a mere question of prudence : bat , according to the Rev . Le Grice , the Tories go fur beyond this , and hold , that a de ~
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Summary of the Cornish Qontroversfi . 153
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vol .. xix . x
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/25/
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