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of his being a minister of an infallible church : he reveres the decisions of the council of Trent as the dictates of the Holy Ghost ; and he will not bring them into debate . There is consistency in all this ; though a genuine Protestant , disclaiming Church authority , must think it the consistency of error . [ No . 5 . ] We shall extract a few sentences from the second and last letter of the Principal of Stonyhurst : he writes thus to Mr . Whittaker :
" According to the principles of the Reformation , I am well aware it is the inherent right of every member of your Church , as well as of the Head , of lay-man or woman , of young and old , of lettered and unlettered , to discuss , decide , adopt , reject , resume , reform , any or all the articles , as to him or her shall there and then seem good and meet . And hence the countless variety of creeds ;— ' We have no such custom , nor has the Church of God ;'—hence our uniform consistency . " [ No . 9 . ]
The reader of this correspondence will be sensible of the characteristic diversities in the style of the letters of the Seculars , and in the style of the letters of the Regular—of the Reverend Principal . They are diversities which agree with their respective denominations and circumstances ; which mark them , and arise out of them .
In a letter [ 11 ] to " Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie , Esq ., M . P ., " Mr . Whittaker seems to express himself under the influence of personal mortification and pique , in consequence of the proffered discussion having been declined ; and is almost ashamed of himself " for moving such a dish of skimm ed milk with so honourable an action" !
Whene-ver the Protestant Controversy shall be resumed from the press , certain preliminary topics must be agitated ; such as " Tradition , " " Scripture /* " the infallibility of churches and councils , " and "the proper title of a church , which , confessedly , is not local : " other matters of difference must come afterwards .
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It has been observed , that in order to render the special mode of education by revelation available to the whole human race , it was necessary that the chosen people should be an object of attention to the sunounding nations , —that the progress of their discipline should be watched , and its peculiarities continually kept in view . An especial provision for this purpose
seems to have been made in the methods by which Abraham was distinguished as the object of Divine favour . His history was singular , even in the eyes of those who failed to recognize the hand of Providence in its leading events . His abandonment of the popular religion , his migration , apparently without sufficient motive ; his adventures in Palestine and Egypt , the circumstances which attended and fallowed his settlement , were events so remarkable as to excite curiosity and interest where there was no knowledge of a divine covenant , no suspicion of a peculiar divine interference .
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The Education of the Human Race . 367
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THE EDUCATION OF THE HUMAN HACK . II .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/7/
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