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No . CCCCXVI . Importance of a Preposition in Theological Controversy . Is it unreasonable to suppose that , if the meaning of this word from and of its correspondent prepositions in other languages had been clearly
understood , the Greek and Latin churches would never have differed concerning the eternal procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father , or from the Father and the Son ? And that if they had been deter mined to separate , they would at least have chosen some safer cause of schism ? " Apelles . I have now , Campaspe , almost made an cud .
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" Campaspe . You told me , Aj ^ Ifes ? you would never end . ' * Ap + Never end my love : for it shall be Eternal . < c Cam . That is , neither to have beginning nor ending . " — Campaspe , by John Lilly , Act iv . Sc . iy , — " Eternal 9 \ v : t > as without end
Without beginning . " Paradise Regained * B . iv . 1 . 391 f ct To say that immensity does not signify boundless space , and that eternity does not signify duration or time without beginning and end ; is , I think , affirming that words have no meaning . *' Dr . Samuel Clar&e ' s Fifth Reply to Leib * nUz ' s Fifth Paper > Sect . 104—106 . Is it presumptuous to say that the explanation of this single preposition
would h&ve decided the controversy more effectually than all the authorities and all the solid arguments ]) toduced by the wise and honest Bishop Procopowkz ? and thus have withheld one handle at least of reproach from
those who assert— " Que l'on pourroit justement definir la th ^ ologie — L ' art de composer des chim&res en combinant ensemble des qualit 6 s impossibles k concilier /'—Systdme de la Nature , Tom . II . p . 55 . H . Toohe s Diversions of Purley , I . 344 , note .
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- No . CCCCXVII . Moderation * The late excellent Major C ^ rtwright , whose character must be admired by those that are least favourable to his views of political reform , appears to us to have taken a just view of moderation as a virtue .
"As to the general question whether it is right or not for me or any ether man to stand forward in the cause , we must decide whether it be or not the will of God that truth and justice should prevail . Temper in conduct is right , but moderation in principle is being «/« prinbe
cipled . Moderation in practice mav commendable , but moderation in principle is detestable . Can we trust a man who is moderately honest , or esteem a woman who is moderately virtuous ? ' — Life and Correspondence of Major Carttoright , by his Niece , in 2 vols . 8 vo .
Vol . I . p . 194 . We could wish to believe Major Cartwright ' s memory to have failed him when he attributes tjie following speech to tnc late admirable I > r . Jrbjb , " Don't tell me of a moderate man , he is always a ia&-cal . " Id . p . 352 .
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Aquinas and ye other schoolmen in their treatises of Philosophy and Theology , happening sometimes on ye jnex * plicable mysteries of Religion , generally say , hcec sunt de fide , —these things are to be believ'd vpon y credit of Divine Revelation , and admit not any exercise of reason or argument about them . 1
The Apostlessaying , We walk by faith and not by sight , may perhaps look somewhat this way ; we live and act by faith in Christ , and are not led by any worldly or external motives . They submitted Reason to Revelation , and were guided by the evidence of things not seen , which made them despise that vain philosophy and those disputers of y ^ world that reason'd too much about
these mysterious truths . And jndeed this hath done Christianity much harm , and occasion ed many pestilent and pernicious heresies in ye X'tian Church , by scaning ye deep things of God by our shallow reason , by diving to fair into vnfathomable depths , and searching jnto things vnsearchable and past finding out .
I am told that Mr , Pierce and his brethren have compos'd an A nan Catechism ; jf you could help me to ye sight of it , j would endeavour to take out y poison of it , and write an antidote to prevent y « contagion and spreading of it . J am sorry ye great men of your Church [ the Cathedral of Exeter ] decline y
suppressing of this heresy , and leave ye whole burden of it vpon your shoulders , which j wish you well to bear off , and that you may be a pillar of that Church which you labour so hard to support . I am , Sr , your affectionate brother and fellowlabourer , Mattii . Hole . Eocon . Coll . Owon , Novemb . hth , 1723 «
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GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL , READING .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/30/
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