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      The . . Monthly Repository I ≫ ¦ • . .. Of Theology And General Literature.

      THE . . MONTHLY REPOSITORY i > ¦ . .. OF Theology and General Literature .

      Untitled Article

      No . XVIII . ] ' JUNE . [ Vol . 11-

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      1 :: l ACCOUNT OP THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF THE GOSPEL INTO BRITAIN . BY THE REV . W . RICHARDS .

      ( Concluded from p . 231 . ) IT has been alleged by those who appear to have paid most attention to , and to be best acquainted with this part of the British history , that the Druids very generally , or at least great numbers of them , embraced Christianity upon its first

      promulgation in this island ; and that the consequence was , as might be expected , that the Christianity of the Britons , in time , took a tincture of Druidism . This will not appear at all strange or extraordinary , when we consider how much the religion of the Jewish Christians was tinctured with Judaism , and that of the Platonic converts with Platonisrn : the case was probably similar with converts from most , if not all other sects . The apostles , while they lived , laboured to guard

      against this , but when they were gone , the difficulty of counteracting it would doubtless become much greater * To this source may perhaps be traced most of the religious differences , errors , and squabbles among the Christians of the first ages , if not also of latter times . The philosophers of different descriptions or of different schools , after having embraced Christianity , would naturally feel an attachment still , at times , to some of their old favourite maxims and doctrines , and if they did m > t appear to them to be directly hostile , or absolutely irreconcileable to the principles of the new religion , would be

      rery apt to wish they might be incorporated with it . On this ground we may pretty safely account for the rise and peculiarities of what is called Ptlagianism . It is only Christianity tinctured , or adulterated with Druidism . Among the favourite or leading tenets of the Druids ( as we learn from the bes ^ authorities ) the following were none of the least prominent :- — 4 C that in the state of humanity good and evil are so equally balanced , that liberty isenjoyed , and the will is free—that man has ability to attach himself either to the good or tke

      History.

      HISTORY .

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      vol . ii . 2 a

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/1/