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    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.

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    oline and languish , and that it actually did so , the testimony of Gildas most lamentably proves . The Saxon invasion proved far more destructive to British Christianity than Dioclesian ' s persecution ^ violent and bloody as it was . After that persecution ^ by the last Writer ' s account , Christianity happily revived in Britain , and continued to flourish for a long season , till the Arian and Athanasian

    controversy interrupted the tranquillity and harmony of its professors * Of the progress of that controversy , however , or its pernicious effects in this island ^ he gives no very particular account 5 but being himself of the orthodox party , he speaks of Arianism ^ of course ^ with no small

    disapprobation and abhorrence . After the agitation and distraction occasioned by this unhappy controversial event , nothing very remarkable of a religious nature appears to have occurred in this country , till the days of Morgan , or Morgant 3 commonly called Pelagius .

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    ORIGINAL LETTER OF DR . SAMUEL CLARKE . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , Neath , April 24 , 1807 . I transmit you the following faithful copy of an original letter of Dr . Samuel Clarke , which was ,, when I copied it , in possession of the late Rev . Josiah Rees , of Gelligron ,

    Glamorganshire , for insertion in your truly valuable Repository . Yours , &c . DAVID DAVIS . Sin , LondonyOct . 28 > 1726 . Yotir mistake , I think , lies here . You suppose a man may possibly conceive in his imagination an impossibility . But this

    Is an evident contradiction . There is no possible conception in the imagination ^ of that which destroys itself . No man can conceive a , mode or quality ^ without a subject . Nothing has no propertiesj no modes $ no magnitude ^ no dimensions ; nor can any thing ever be affirmed of nothing * ' Tis the absolute negation of

    all ideas whatever . To support therefore any space void absolutely of all essence ^ is as direct a contradiction ^ as to suppose any 0 ihev mode or quality of nothing . Which no man can possibly do by any * imagination . Can one nothing be bigger or less tlian another ? Can that which is not ^ be square or round ? I am , Sir your very humble servant , S . CLARKE , To Mr . Daniel Thomas , to be left at Mr . Perrot ' s , In Spilman Street , Carmarthen , South Wales .

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    296 Original Letter of Dr . Samuel Clarke .

    Miscellaneous Communications.

    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/8/