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^ Ttf ^ d ^ iii ^ i ^ iWi sfeMioft ; ^ is yte&ffi&dtih Jmn xk $ J 17 "bf Mt . Bal ^ fc Barker , afterHterfls mar dtepliitf , ' tthcHB his Graee ftfad dSsitfed to perform that office , with an absolute restriction , that nothing should be said in it with relation to himself ; and in the letter which he wrote to
kim that occasion , on the 17 th of April , he expressed a strong sense of the weight or what he long dreaded , and was now fallen upon him /' Tillotson was , probably , the last
Afehbishop , or Prelate , of either English province , not to add the labourenduring Protestant prelacy of Catholic Ireland , who so anxiously asked himself quid v&leant humeri ? Amidst the vast improvements in all mechanical contrivances , ecclesiastic * have
now learned , if , indeed , they had yet to learn , how to ' * fift up their mitred heads in Courts and Parliaments /' ( where Burke discovered them , and kindled into raptures at the sight , ) even under the weight of an Archbishoprick .
The consecration , which took place On Whitsunday , was not , as Tillotson naturally expected , in " the Chapel at Lambeth , " but at Bow Chttrch . Perhaps the deprived Sancroft had
not yet removed from Lambeth , ( where it appears that Tillotson immediately after his royal appointment , by the solemn farce of a clerical election , had waited upon him , and was refused admittance , ) or the Chapel was too stnail to accommodate the
numerous persons of rank who attended the solemnity . " Such an attendance would be a seasonable compliment to the priiice in possession , whose right , as only the law of the strongest , Sancroft , at the peril of deprivation , had conscientiously
refused to acknowledge . I > r . Birch , indeed , with an amiable , unwortdly simplicity , imputes such an influx of courtiers solel y to their cf great esteem and respect for his Grace , and the satisfaction which they had in his promotion . "
To the second letter { Aystough , 4292 , 122 ) is prefixed the following attestation : " An exact copy of an original letter of Mr . Thomas Chubb , you have as follows . Witness , I . Owen ; " Obubb has been generally classed among Deistical writers , chiefly on account of 3 om& passages i *> Ma
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posthumous " £ ! && . He certainly professed to h $ a Christian , as remarked in one of yemt earlier vohitfies , and I have found nothing at variance with such a profession in the volume of tracts published by him in 1718 , where are no expressions unbecoming "
a Christian rejecting as unscripturai the Trinity and other orthodox tenet ? . Nor in this letter , whatever may be thought of Chubb ' s conjecture on a confusedly difficult passage , is there any thing which a Christian disbelieving the reality of supposed demoniacal possessions might not have
written . Several years after the date of this letter , the theory of Chubb , on the manner of the swine ' s destruction , was proposed by Dr . Sykes and Dr . Lardner . The former , in his " Enquiry into the Meaning of Demoniacs in the New Testament " ( 1737 , p .
52 , ) thus writes : 44 All the three evangelists agree in telling us , that the devils entered the swine . But yet we must observe , that all this legion of devils was
nothing but the madman's talk . If , therefore , by any accident , the swine ran down the precipice , whilst the man or men were under cure ,
whether drove down , or frighted down by the madmen , this would fully answer all the story . For as to the request itself , that was nothing but the mad discourse of one disordered in his senses : just as I myself met with a woman who told me of numbers of
devils in her ; and , consistent with that principle , she told me what this or that particular devil said , and what they desired to be done ; and she asked me , if I did not hear or see the devils . "
Dr . Gregory Sharpe , who , in his " Review of the Controversy , " C 1739 , ) generally coincides with the Enquiry , also supposes ( p . 57 ) , that the swine ' * were driven by the roadmen when
under cutc" Dr . Lardner , In his " Case of the Demoniacs , " first published in 17 ^ 8 , says of this demoniac { Works , I . 474 , ) what he repeats in his " Remarks on Dr . Ward ' s
Dissertations , " ( Works , XI . 276 , ) ** The distraction under which this man laboured , was very grievous and outrageous : he was a hkteoiis form , tend his aetioA was very violent . When he had conceived the thought of gru-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/19/
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