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    Letter of Dr . Matthew ffo te ' j op the Disuse of Hed&on in Religion . THIS letter was published as original in the Gentleman ' s Magazine for June . The writer is thare described as follows : " Matthew Uote : was admitted of

    Exeter College , October 15 , 1661 , proceeded B . A . June 14 , 1664 , B . D . October 13 , 1674 , and D . D . October 13 , 1716 . He was Vicar of Stokegursey , SomerseVaad Rector of Exeter College , Oxford . He published seven volumes on the Liturgy , Epistles and Gospels ; two on the Church Catechism ; another on Matrimony ; another on Charity ; Letters to a Nonconformist Teacher on the Gift

    of Prayer ; ' Our Saviour ' s Passion , in a . Sermon on Good Friday , April 1 , 1670 , at St . Peter ' s Cathedral Church , Exeter / on Acts ii . 23 ; and a Sermon preached at Taunton on the Feast of Epiphany , before the forces of the Militia of Somerset , sent there for the preservation of the peace of the town . "

    The Sermon for which Dr . Hole thanks his correspondent , Dr . Walker , was probably an Assize Sermon , published in 8 vo . 1723 , from the text 1 Cor . i . 20 , and entitled , " No Contradiction in the received Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity /* The contributor of the letter to

    Mn Sylvnnus Urban calls the writer " a truly orthodox divine , " and certainly his sentiments are those of a large proportion of the church visible , upwards to the Fathers : whether they are the more worthy of credit on that account , we must leave the reader to determine .

    It is curious to see how the sceptical Montaigne plays off his own " orthodox < y" on this point : 4 Our faith is not of our own

    acquiring , but purely the gift of an-Cher ' s bounty . 'Tia not by reason-Jng or by virtue of our understanding , that we have acquired our Religion , but «> y foreign authority and command ; and the weakness or our judgment is ° * more assistance to us in it , than lhc strength of it- and our blindness m ( j re than the clearness of our shrlit . "

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    > A&wtTii '; - * ' " ^ ''{?> ***! # y >; ftR ^' f To ^ ffcee * w ^ f ^ fricredibtei ia ah ' dc&sfttf * 6 € 3 « sflils to b eilteve i &nd the in tfrfe it WbMiH ^ e tx > liuman reasdn the more > Se ^ bMtt | e is stteh f&ith . If ir wete accdrtliiigto reasoa , it wouM be no longer a tniracle ; and if there was a precedent ; for it , 'twould be no longer a singularity

    St . Augustine says , MeUusscifctir / Deus nesciendo , i . e . God is better kibAvHi by submitting not to know him . *** It is strange that ^ ProtestahtS do not see that by decrying reasbn they must take up either with the Boiiikn Catholics , who have an infallible

    church and head , or with the Quakers , each of whom is under the guidance of infallible divine inspiration .

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    Thtty for the Reverend Doctor IValher , Minister of St . Maty Moor [ Major ] in R # ony Devon . Rbverend Sir , I receivM your very good Sermon , and return you my hearty thanks for it . I bare read and perus'd it over with a due

    jntention of mind , and vpon y * whole thinks you bave sufficientiie prOvM that y « difficulties , absurdities , contradictions , and pretended jnipossibilities in yc doctrine of ye Trinity are farr more and greater on y « heretical opposers than the orthodox assertors of it . ;

    Both of them seem to agree that reason can be no competent jutlg in this sublime and mysterious affair ; for y ^ ohe side declare it to be above reais 6 ^ , iihd ye other contrary to it . So thiat jf tWnk reason ought in a great meaaiur ^ fo 'be Jaid aside , and to put it wholly on ye foot of Revelation , which none that awti yc

    divine authority of ye Holy S ^ riptutfe can gainsay or resist . Reason indeed h a good rule and judg on things that are within its reach ; but is not to be extended to things that are out of its sphere ,- and cannot be comprehended toy it . And such this mystery must be own'd to be .

    Hence we find y « Fathers and Schoolmen in their discourses on tJhis subject , generally waveiog all arguments taken from reason , and makeing it entirely a matter of faith grounded upon divine

    Revelation , which is the truest and safest bottom we can put it upon . Tertull&a ' s Credo quia eU jmpossibile , is a reniarkable instance hereof ; he made it ye object of his faith vpon y « autority of / God ' s word , because it seemed jmpossible to his reason .

    • Essays . Apol . for Rami . uc St :-bondc . B . ii . ch . xii .

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    Letter ofJStf ^^ Mtihew ' -MMi ^ on the BUm& nf ^^ a ^ n ^ Religion . W $

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    fediog *** &kmAdffliiM ' ^ of what a ^ caSl" ^ 1 ^' ttowoAM ? Itey \ ViU not fail to disavow the advel-tfaerjand to repTobnte ys wickedness in their next number ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/29/