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    might it not be rationally concluded , that the due rewards of virtue , a ' nd adequate punishments of vice , are reserved to a future day of retribution ? P . K . will I think find it

    difficult to prove his assertion , ** that this delay of justice is injustice . " But though he sees no weight in the argument I have been illustrating , in favour of a future judgment , I feel much satisfac

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    Art . I . A Sermon against Witchcraft , preached in the Parish Church of Great Paxton ^ in the County of Huntingdon , July 17 y 1808 . With a brief Account of the Circumstances which led to (• wo atrocious Attacks on the Person of Ann Izzard , as a reputed Witch . By the Reverend Isaac Nicholson , 31 . A . Curate . London . Maw man , Poultry .

    The history of the various ira . fostures by which men of strong , have deluded those of weak minds , and thus raised to themselves considerable profit and importance , would be very instructive to

    mankind . Every age is full of them ; and , when once an error has been established ^ it is so much the interest of numbers to perpetuate it that with the greatest difficulty can it be rooted out . Of these

    unpositions some are of a very extensive nature ; such as the belief in witches , in the popish trinity , in transubstantiation , and

    that , which is against the strongest feelings of human nature the belief , that an * infant nt . the breast > s an object of God ' s wrath and damnation , instead of his love and benevolence . When these

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    tion in stating ^ that he ' looks fbt *' ward to another scene of greater perfection th in the present . His words are , * ' the scripture saith , * that Almighty God , the father of

    Jesus Christ , will judge the world in the last day , when all things on this earthly theatre shall receive their final consummation /' I am . Sir , &c , T . HOWE .

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    impostures are traced to their source , we find no difficulty in conceiving , that the deluded party must retain them with great tenacity ; and that they who have better means of information *

    should combine together to keep their brethren in ignorance and superstition . For example ; what expression can be more shocking and impious , than to speak of a woman as the mother of God

    yet when we look at the me of that superstition , and consider the persons by whom it was inl trocluced , we are no longer surprised at its fatal introduction

    into the worl ( J and that in spite of reason and revelation it should still retain jts ground . That the Gods hud intercourse with mortal women was a common persua-

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    Review . —Nicholson * s Sermon against Witchcraft . 607 '

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    c STILL PLEAS ' D TO PRAISE , YET NOT AFRAID TO BLAME . " Top * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 607, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/31/