On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    The Inquirer . 87

    Untitled Article

    Sir , III . I shall be very glad , through the medium of your Inquirer , to be informed as to the reputed author of either of the undermentioned anonymous works . Qt ? £ } RO .

    ¦ 1 . "Free and Candid Disquisitions relating to the Church of England , and the Means of advancing Religion therein . Addressed to the Governing Powers in Church and State , and more immediately directed to the two Houses of Convocation . " 8 vo . 2 d edit . 1750 . — In these disquisitions the Athanasian creed is complained of , particularly the damnatory clauses . iCThc great doctrine of the Trinity' * is spoken of as never designed for controversy—a subject above the reach of human comprehension . " Thus might a Roman Catholic express his reverence for the great doctrine of transubstantiation . The propriety of a ne # translation of the Scriptures is well stated : " We deal with no book as with our bible . Just and beautiful versions are bestowed on other books of antiquity ; the sense of the authors expressed with the greatest clearness ; their spirit and genius with the greatest force , and their matter and subject adorned with all the elegance and grandeur that our language will afford . Our Sacred Books alone are not allowed this reasonable favour , nor indeed have even common justice done them ., though they so loudly demand ity and the times make it so absolutely necessary they should have it . "

    2 . cc A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in ancient and modern times : in which the superior populousness of Antiquity is maintained . With' an Appendix , containing Additional Observations on the same Subject , and some Remarks on Mr . Hume ' s Political Discourse of the Populousness of Ancient Nations . " F . din--burgh ,, 8 vo . 1753 . —The dissertation was first read before the Philosophical Societ }^ of Edinburgh , of which the author was a member . It maintains the superior populousness of the ancient world , an opinion controverted by Mr . Hume ; to whom the appendix , consisting of half the volume , is chiefly a reply .

    3 . "tree Thoughts on Despotic and Free Governments , as connected with the Happiness of the Governor and the Governed /' < t . 8 vo . 17 S 1 . —These " Thoughts" accord with the freest of "what have been generally called Whig principles . Toleration , or rather the right of religious profession , is maintained , while the au ~ - ihor contends , for the necessity of a " national religion" with " im ^ stablishec ! ministry . "

    IV . T . C . A . of Chatham , wishes to be informed if any merrioir ot the late Dr . Wood , of Norwich , has been published ; and . it not , will be obliged to the Rev , S . Newton of the above place-

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/31/