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decreasing number ) who fondly look back to " Gabriel or William on the British throne / ' and still vaunt the fabulotfe good times of ' the Glorious Revolution , " this instance of direct persecution , in 1694 , may serve at least to qualify their admiration , even if it fail to correct their judgment . J . T . RUTT .
" Die Mercuric xxiii Januar . 1694 ^ corain Henrico Newtou , Legum doctorem , Heurici Lond . Episc . Vicario , in Spir 8 . Generali , comparuit Johannes Smith parochie Sancti Augustini Londlnensis civis et clock-maker , cui Doiniuus objecit librum per eundem
Johannem South , scriptum et publicatum , cui titulus , A Designed End to the Socinian Controversy , &c , Anno Domini , 1694 , impressum , iu quo varii continentur errores in religione et contrariae triginta iiovem Articulis Ecclesiaj Anglicans , quarum omnia fassus est esse vera ac subnrisit se .
" Tune Do minus monuit eum ad agnosceudmn crimen , quod ad statem perfecit legendo ac subscribando schedulam pieseutibus annexam . " * Jan . 23 , 1694 , " Whereas I , John Smith , Citizen of London , presuming too far upon inv
private reason and understanding ) have lately compiled , and rashly against my duty sette forthe a book entitled , A Designed End to the Socinian Controversy , &c , printed in the Year 1694 , and thereto , with unusual confidence have set my name in which book 1 have undertaken to assert , maintain and prove several poiuts in divinity , contrary to the Articles of Religion commonly called the
* Wednesday , 23 d of January , 1694 , before Henry Newton , Doctor of Laws , Vicar-General in Spirituals to Henry [ Conipton ] Bishop of Loudon , appeared John Smith , of the parish of St . Augustine , London , citizen and clock maker ,
to whom his Lordship objected a book , written and published by the said Johu Smith , entitled , A Designed End to the Socinian Controversy , &c , printed in the year of our Lord , 1694 , in which are contained various errors in religion , and contrary to the Thirty nine Articles of the Church of England , all which he confesses to be true , aud submits himself .
Then his Lordship admonished him to acknowledge his crime , which he did immediately by reading and subscribing the schedule annexed to these presents .
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Thirty-nine Article * of the Church erf England , and contrary to the established laws and statutes of the realm—I , John Smith , do hereby declare , that I am very sorry for the same , and wish , with ail my heart , I had not either written , or caused to be printed , the said book , asking forgh euess of all such as have been hurt thereby , or justly scandalized
thereat , and retracting all pernicious errors and heretical positions contained in the said book . And 1 do hereby promise , with sincerity and truth , to abstain from all occasions of falling into the like miscarriage as much as in me lies , and to behave myself , for the time to come , as befits an humble , peaceable , modest , and quiet Christian , lu witness whereof , I have hereunto set nay haud , &c , " JOHN SiMlTH . "
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Increase of Crime . To the Editor . Sir , In your number for February are some very excellent remarks upon a topic of such importance , that 1 trust you will indulge me with a portion of your pages for a few observations which the perusal
of that article suggested . In the review of the Bishop of Lichrield ' s Charge , your correspondent has introduced the subject of the increase of crime , its sources and its remedies . Now , Sir , I confess that it appears to me that many have been alarmed at the awfully rapid increase of crime , because they have not attentively considered all the circumstances of the
case . It must not be forgotten , that during the last twenty or even ten years , the population of these kingdoms has increased in a degree unprecedented iu our history . It is , however , forgotten that this increase has takeu place principally in the inferior classes of society ; and it
is a melancholy truth that these are the classes which furnish the largest proportion of our unhappy fellow-creatures who become the victims of crime . Taking the >; e circumstances into consideration , it may perhaps admit of doubt whether the increased number of criminals be
greater than might be expected from the increased number of those whose situation most exposes them to the influence of temptation . I confess that , in my opinion , the number , great as it is , is not greater than might have been anticipated ; aud if documents could be produced to establish this opinion as a fact , the philanthropist as well as the moralist might rejoice in the conclusion . But the number of criminals is con-
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Afutettincous Correspondence . 353
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/57/
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