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l ^^ yi ^ tWi ^ X ^^ bWl ^ toifdilrd ^^ undertook domestic * which was , $ he Q ^ ^^ ^ S ^ QKi ^^ rvi- ^^ t . ; $ & thi ** ^^© i appeared , toi be threefold , namely , w \) 4 k $ r !< &fti ajppair ^ < pa » rii » ge , w ^ righily managed ; whether the * e ^ ucatiott of riMTOItWds properly etwdueteil , ^ betliei ^ ^ fa ^ yi 'We- ^ er ^ r ^ i ^ . -fWmd 9 # nay not cmlsr on * the
ft ^ dpafc !^ PIW > Hrnl &xplain € ; & aejatiments propor mode cif ^« itii ^^ tia ^^» arTw ^^ but ^ o ^ o ^ dissalving ? it sheila that be fouijd ne ^ e ^ sary- ; ai ) 4 Ihis I ^ id according- to tbe < livine law which Christ has ne ^ abrogated » and -7 » u < Jh > e » 8 lias he giwen a civil sanction to any other , ; that should be < nf Uigj ^ . a ^^ Htyr lbaii tket whole law of Moses . 7 liiviiW ^ mf ^ er | , I' ~ . ^ i >
liverea my owa opiniOR and the opinion of others concerning what wa » to > he thought pf tbe single exception of fornication—a question , which baa been , also * , copiously , . elucidated by omr celebrated Seiden , in hid Hebrew Wife ^ ' pub * lisUe ^ so ^ e ;| two ; years after . Again , it is to little purpose for Aim to make a aoLse about Jibecty Ia . tke legislative assemblies , and ; ia the courts ofjus ^ tQ who is ia bondage to aa inferior at baaie—a apecks of bondage of all otki ^ rs the , nia ^ t degra ^ iB ^ to ^ a man . ) -, On this point , therefore , I published gpme bo # ks , and at that particular time , when- man $ tnd wife were often . the ] fiercept
qoewiies * be , l > eir > g at home with las chitdreiiy while she > -the-. mother <> f-the fatttily , was ire the caaip of t&e eaei » yy ; tkireafening slaughter and : desirn ^ tioQ to her husband . , I next tneate ^ ia one Iktle wark ^ of 3 ie education- of ^ hi ^ - tlrea , b » ie % it is true , but at sufiicient tengtb , I conceived , for those who apply th « naselves to tke subject wkh att that earnestness and diHgeace wbieh it deiiiands- ^ -a aubjisei ) ? than which there can "be none of greater imooieRt to ioibue the mi ^ ds of Diea witlu fvirtue * fEont wliicb springs that true liberty which is ilelti witbin ? p . none for fcbe v ^ ae aflmifi-istratioii & § a ? cono * BQO » w ^ f dWl fc
a ^ d < f an giving ^ lfe ( ifs Qtmospossible duration . Lastly , X wrote aftm- t » ft model of a regular speech ^ Areop ^ fitica , oa the liberty of prifcti « g } tlmt tie ^ termination of true aud > false , of what ought to be publi 8 hed aad what suppressed , might pot be in the handaof the few who may be charged with the iaspectio « of books , men commo » ly without learning au 4 © f vuJgar jw 4 g ^ meat ^ ajad by whose licence and pleasure no one is suffered tQ publish a # y thin ^ whic h ^ above vulgar apprehension . The civil species of liberty ,, tbe last AvhijeU rcanaiixedy I had not touched , as I pereeive 4 it = ^ rew sufii ^ i ^ nt attention « fro m . tjk ^ magistrate . Nor did I write any thing on the right of kings ,
tijljitieiikj ^ gj pjCQupunoed an enemy by the parliament , and vanquished , in war , whs , arr , ai «; i > ed ast a captive befbre judges i and coitdernued to lose , his heitfl . put w ^ e » 7 / certain Presbyteria . i > ministers , at first the bitterest foes to Cft ; arl ^ s , anabjje tp , endure tliati the Independent party should ^ now be-preferred to them , and t ! liat [ it sJiouM have greater influence in the senate , began to clamour against the sentence wb-ichi the parllanaent had pronounced upon the king ( though ia no < wise' angry at bhe deed , but o-niy that themseVVes had not the execution of it ; , and tried to their utmost to- raise a tttantult , having tlfc ? asaurance > tQt atiS ^ rm that the doctrine o £ Protestantsr , that all * the ne&woaeifc chiirelies
shrunk vvi ^ U horror froin , the atrocity of ^ ueh si , sentence agjai-pat , ki « gsrrrrtft $ tt » i n ^ edvl , thoughlt i | t behoved , me openly to oppose s ^ baref ^ e ^ ai tals ^ h ^^ Yi ^ t ^ v € jn ; tjien I , neither wrtote nor advised any thmg conceipiug . Clliarle ^ , hwt siinply shewed , in general * w ^ h ^ t may , be lawfully done , against tyflante * addl * ' - citig in qonfirmation , the ajitlioriti ^ s of no siiiall iiunaber of the in o ^ t e ^ ifteiit divines , inveighing , at the same time , almost with the zeal" of a preacher , against the egregious- Ignorance or impudence of tliose men who bad promised till afte tM dfeath bF the
b > tte » tilings . This book ^ as no ; t pu , blish ^ d ; r kmer , bfiiifg . intendedrather t (» compose the ! mind | $ at men ^ than to settle any thirfg rejjatjng (| to .. CI ^ Mes . ^ , tfc ^ tbeing the bu ^ ness . o ^ t ^ o m ^ strates Instead of u ^ U ^ a ^ ul vYhiph , ^ tlie , tiuaei I speak of ^ hpd been ajra « iy cWite B . These ? service ^ Qtminje ^ which were performed vvitUiii . p ^ iviit ^ . wall ^ : gfl « tailH > u * l )» bpi stowed at one time on the church , at another , upon the cdmmonwertltli ; wlute neither the commonwealth nor the cluarch hesiowed . upon nae in return anything beyotW ae ^ rurity . It ia tr ^ tf that I gain ed a g ^ od ctmBCience , a fair
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the K S ' d&U ^ gtrwfyi &JRtyfy . Mitten * 87
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 687, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/31/
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