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confute y * ppiB ^ a ^ b y ^ reason , adhering wholly to Scripture 5 nor doe I kmw any y * pretenclfto use reason more ia v case , than Protestaats use , to doe
in the point of transubstantiation . I am not wholly- unexerciz'd in philosophies new and oldj and doe beleive , by what I have read , in Morney and others , and y little discourse I had
with you * y I guesse at your method j once I heard a ffreind of inine ~ b § vvaile y e ill successe w $ h Beckerman had wi th Goslavius a Behelno ; but for
my part Jet any man prove his opinion by Scripture , and I will renounce cay philosoph y * If you had applied tha super angelical nature to the l | py Spirit , who is the Atigell of G ^ presence , Is . lxiiL 9 , 10 , I should
have liked it , and for ye unioa of God with X *« or X * being partaker of the Divine nature , vvho can denie it in X , who acknowledged it in Xtian % 2 Pet . i . 4 , though in X * more
eminently and transcendantly , y spirit of God without measure perpetually resideing in him ? But in my own defence , and to prove I am a X tian , let me syllogize too . He y * beleiveth
y * Jesus X * was conceived by y Holy Spirit , according ta y Creed , ( and Luc * i . 35 , ) beleiveth him to be principally and more fully to be called y * Sonne of God than " of man , even
according to his humanity * But I beleive y fc Jesus X * wa 3 , &c * ergo . The major is your owne , of origin , sinne , p . 222 , L 19 . The minor is my confession and y confession of all Christians ; if so , then sure I beleive him to be y ^ Sonne of God , ^ y ^ X * , ergo I am a Xtia » ; and to give the minor more fall weight ,
I beleive , moreover ^ according to Pa . ii . 7 , Ro . i . 4 , y X was regenerated as y Sonne of God , by y resurrection from y dead : by the almighty power and spirit of God , in respect of his
immortal , impassible and glorious body , and his being enstated into all power , both in heaven and in earth ; how then doe I hold a person of such dignity and majesty to be a mere man ? How a mere man , even in respect of lllS eSRf > n /»/» * ia nut * ovfnnnih ' n / Y FI ** ma essence extenuating D
, as our are pleased to say ; but rather as y king ' s sonne must needs be a prince , so God ' s Sonne must needs be a God , though not God himselfe , no more than the prince is y king , understanding those things in scriptural sense , and such as ^ mp lyes no im-
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perfeqtion . These things ar « deare enou ^ , but ; education , interest , corrupt philosophy , y ; preltend ^ 4 Wita ^ r rity ^ f th ^ cfiur € fe > ye ela ^ o ^ ^ of apostates , are of mighty power ^ l ^ © B * toxieate men agaiast the clearest ar ^ guraents . I know also that the
inscrutable judgement of Go 4 must concurre , who lays stumbling bjodks even in Scripture ; ^ eeTertoU de Prescript , c . 3 ( £ ^ nee periciitor dicere * ipsas quoque scl 3 ptura ^ $ k ; jasse ex Dei voluntate disppsitas ut liaereticas materias subministrareut , q | um ^ legam opport ^ at hsereses esse , qu ^> ine scripturis esse non possunt . I saje
apostates , for who ean denie , but yfc as to this Controvetsie y Pope of Rome hath been all along as orthodox as y best of you ? Yoiile say ^ hehqliis y there is a God ; I reply , but not as
a Christiaa . One said to me y Pope is exactly orthodox in y Trinitie , ergo , he is not Anti- ^ I an swered , Hee is Anti-Xt » therefore search him well upon y hue and cry for that . 49 The Lord give us understanding in all things . "
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To Baarter on his Book on Episco- * pact / . —{ . Supposed to be from Gilbert Clerke . ) " Lamport , Sept . 19 , 1681 . "S ,
" Since I wrote to you I read your booke of Episcopacy . Surely they must be much prejudiced , whom your historicall proofes at } d 31 evidences will not satisfie s bi | fc | I do not like your wary parenthesis of Arch-B V as jure divino , I feare it tends to hold us in y old bondage , or to introduce another as bad at the back dore . I
graunt y y civil soveraign authority may appoint such as farre as it is concerned , viz . aa to the publique houses of worshi p * maintenance , cau * - tion ag sedition ; but for y ye
king ' s commission is ordination sufficient , nor is it necessary y such a visitour should be a B at all ; neyther will I denie but y y B associating may appoint a President for order ' s sake and as edification shall
require , more tkan so in men fallible is like to doe more hurt than good , we know what the grandure <» f ^ great churches and president B ^? came to : therefore abundant cautela is necessary * Most have hitherto looked upon
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/5/
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