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sarcasm on Bucer : it does not touch Neal , and is , in every view , unworthy of attention . ( 5 ) 192 . [ 171 . T . ] The sentiments
and conduct of the Puritans , in relation to the ecclesiastical habits , the cap , the surplice , &c , are recorded by Neal , in the progress of his history : the existence of such conduct and
sentiments , is unquestioned ; but the justness of them has been impugned by Warburton . In the mean time , NTeaPs fidelity and ingenuousness are conspicuous . It was the imposition of the vestments , which formed the
grievance . ( 6 ) 194 . [ 173 . T . ] In this instance , again , as in numerous other instances , they are opinions and sayings , which Neal honestly relates , that call down the prelate ' s animadversions : the good faith of the historian he can with no
plausibility arraign ; and in the vast majority of his strictures it is not even attempted to be brought in question . ( 7 ) 194 . [ 174 . T ; j The editors note is most satisfactorv . It
vindicates Neal ' s accuracy , and proves that the point in dispute was not indifferent or immaterial . The decency of ecclesiastical vestments , cannot justify the imposition of them . ( 8 ) 231 . [ 205 . T . ] With the
exception of one clause , Warburton ' s remark is fair and liberal . But , though his judgment may differ from what Neal expresses or implies , the historian ' s fidelity is not therefore to be denied .
( 9 ) 240 . [ 214 . T . J " The natural right that every man has to judge for himself , and make profession of what he esteems as the true religion , " is the grand principle , into which all Protestant dissent must ultimately be
resolved . Neal affirms thus much , hut does not say that the Puritans of Elizabeth ' s age , any more than the Conformists , were acquainted with the principle theoretically ; so that Warburton ' s censure on the historian
is without foundation . ( 10 ) 243 . [ 21 / . T . ] Neal's historical fidelity , is still unshaken . For the rest , the Bishop ' s note stands on " the unsteadfast footing'' of his own theory of the Alliance of Church and State .
( 11 ) 2 . 94 . [ 259 . T . J This note involves no question of fact , but simply of sentiment and reasoning . It thus
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resembles the far larger proportion of the prelate ' s strictures . Even were Neal ' s opinions and arguments as " extravagant as many of War burton ' s—^ instead of being , for the most part eminently judicious—still , his probity remains unimpaired .
( 12 ) 365 . [ 319 . T . ] " The BisW of London , " [ Aylmcr , ] says the historian , " came not behind the chief of his brethren the bishops in his persecuting zeal against the Puritans : » this zeal he manifested bv enforcing ministerial conformity . Upon which
accusation Warburton observes , that " it is an unfair charge which runs through the history . " He adds , " The exacting conformity of the ministry of any church by the governors of that church is not persecution . " I transcribe Dr . Toulmin ' s note , in
reply " : This is a strange sentiment to come from the pen of a Protestant prelate . There was no persecution then in the rel ^ n of Queen Mary . It was no persecution , when the Jewish
Sanhedrim agreed , ' that if any man did confess that Jesus was the Christ , he should be put out of the synagogue / It was no persecution , when the Parliament imposed the Scots ' covenant . "
The answer is substantially conclusive . Warburton himself admits that the doing' more than simply expelling from the communion of the Established Church a Nonconfonning ministry , is persecution . The truth
Is , such men excommunicate themselves . But why make the terms of conformity narrow and unscriptural ? Here lies the guilt : here is the persecution . The prelate almost intimates a doubt , whether the conditions
merited not this account of them . ( 13 ) 369 . [ 323 . T . ] It is the opinion of Bishop W . that Stubbs' punishment , in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , was " infinitely more cruel than all the cars [ so , the printed copyj under Charles I . " This kw p uujc appears stronger than facts will authorize : * hut NoaPs credit is not
involved in the comparison . ( 14 ) 3 G 9 . [ 323 , 321 . T . ] la 1580 , the Commons appointed i \ fnt ; and , as it would seem , for themselves
ex-* Hume , we believe , thought here , as Warburton thought-
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5 ^ 4 Examination of Warburton , &c .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 514, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/2/
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