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    frighted at the dfcspfcrste hazard thfcy must run , if thdy venture into the temptations of a court hereafter ? Such examp les make me often think how wisdy oiir blessed Saviour put in that petition into the Lord's Prayer , £

    ( Id . p- 303 , ) " I cannot , therefore , but with great grief look on the Lord Chancellor King , Archbishop Wake and'Archbishop Potter , as three excellent men utterly ruined by their preferinents at court , and proper to teach all other good men this old lesson , E } cceat auluy qui volet esse plus \"

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    Dr . If eg on the Toleration ; Sfc , of Unitarians . ft 1

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    * Had Dr . Hey written now , his liberal ity would have led him to adopt the accepted and parliamentary term Unitarians f This , even by those who might ad niit the position as to occasional atten

    dance , may well be denied as to constant conformity ; at . least , while the Forms specify ' the several Objects of Trinitarian Worship .

    X The blame , if any , must ; it should seem , rest , not on that side Which tis&s Scripture language that may be mitterstood by the other , us comprising aril they intend ; but on that which introduces

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    Sir , HAVING been some time since led to take from a work which I understood was then very difficult to be procured , the extracts which you will find below , I had them transcribed

    with the intention of offering them as not unsuitable for insertion in your liberal publication . Several circumstances have delayed my sending them ; among others , a recent second edition of the book . On consideration ,

    however , this may rather afford additional reason for endeavouring to draw attention towards the Author ' s sentiments . In the design of the Monthly Repository , the important object of ascertaining and disseminating religious

    truth is not , as in works professing the same purpose it too commonly lias been , dissevered from the yet more valuable object , the promotion of that " chanty which is the end of the Commandments . " Towards this end it must , I apprehend , be highly conducive that where among contesting

    parties any individuals of eminence entertain and avow sentiments truly conciliatory , they should be communicated as widely as may be among not only their own partizans , but also their opponents ; the latter of whom , from the prevailing- reluctance on all sides l <> look into the works of adversaries ,

    are too likely to remain long in iinio-Jftncethat such sentiments are felt , unkss the fact be made known through l intervention of friends .

    . ^ n some of the opinions , indeed , in-11 mated in the extracts , your readers may very reasonabl y and very widely < utfer from the author : but they cann fail to see in the passages cited , * d , if they should have recourse to Ue book itself , in many more , that

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    he adopts in & gre&t degree Hie gr&tid principle - on which alon& univ>t ! concord can be practicable among ' Christians—the ' ¦ agreement 16 be satis * fled with concurrence in a few points which hai * e ' always been found incontrovertible among * those who believe in divine revelation , and with unlimited difference upon others . They will perceive , too , that lie exhibits a spirit congenial with this principle and with

    the Christian candour that I am persuaded is very prevalent in the class of persons among whom your numbers circulate ; nor mil they omit to observe the peculiar value to be attributed to such declarations on account of the circumstances of those by and * to whom they were delivered .

    They are contained in < c Lectures in , Divinity , delivered in the University of Cambridge , by John Hey , D . D ., Norrisian Professor . " 4 . vols . 8 vo . Published at Cambridge , 1796- republished there , 1822 . ' At the Revolution it was intended

    to give all Protestants full liberty with regard to religion , though the liberality of the King ' s designs got narrowed by Parliament and Convocation : but

    what would then have been liberty to the chief part of Dissenters , is not so

    now ; they did not then object to the doctrine of the Trinity ; whereas Socinians * are now considerable in numbers and literature "—Lect . ut sup . 13 . iii . Ch . xiv . Sect . xv . Vol . II . p . 153 , 1 st ecL

    "I apprehend that the Church of England and the generality of those who dissent from it might unite and

    worship together if they were properly disposed and directed . f It would be a different thing to say it is probable in the present state of things that they will ; but it seems owing to faults and imperfections on one side or the other that they do not . t I collect

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 711, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/11/