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      which there vr&s &tty reply made , € t My I&d , " sajrs the clergyman , u I have been i | iformed you understand the principles of Christianity : " ci ^ n § feo I do , sir , " returns the othfSBV u - And pray , " says the parspti , what are these

      principled ? " To which he replied , expressing his opinions in his own words from the confusion he was in , / * These , sir , are the principles of the Christian religion ; there was an old man and an-. old

      woman that robbed an orchard long ago , and for this we are all damned ever since . " ( From a Letter to the Protestant Dissenters in the Pariah ofBallykdly , occasioned by their Objection against their late Minister . )

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      No . LXXX . j > i ^ Christianity an Innovation . It has been often urged that the opposition to reformation and improvement in the church at any time , is a virtual justification of the opposition to Christianity on its first introduction ; or , to put

      it in another way , a condemnation of the founders of the new religion . Gibbon , the historian , is am instance of the justness of the argument . In a letter to Lord Sheffield , his obsequious admirer , he

      says of Burke ' s book against the French Revolution , u I admire Ms eloquence , I approve bis politics , I adore his chivalry , and . I cai > forgive even his superstition ;" and adds , " The primitive chutch , 'which I have treated with some

      freedom 1 was it&elf at that time an innovation , and I was attached to the old Pagan establishment " Misc-Works , 4 to . v , i . p . 214 . Lord Sheffield afterwards says [ voLi . p . 226 . 1 that he once heard nim . argue ^ c < seemingly with seriousness , in favour of the Inqui-

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      sition at Lisbon , and sayiie \ v 9 uld not , at the present moment , give up even that old establishment . *' The infidelity of such a mau is no dishonour to Qhristianity , To be consistent , all that justify or practise tyranny , should disavow the Galilean * peasant , and openly join ~ the ranks of Boliri gbroke , Hume and Gibbon , who were equally distinguished by th < eir contempt of religion and itiie rights of man . - — - ———

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      No . tXXXI . Fine Saying of Sir Isaac Newton ' s . * Sir Isaac Newton said , a little before his death , ( see Tumor ' s Collections for a Hist , of Grantham , ) u not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy , playing on the sea-shore , and di-Nrertipg myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a . prettier shell than ordinary , whilst th * Tgreat ocean of truth lay all "undiscovered before me .

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      No . JLXXXH . The Danger of Innovations . Wise men , says the well-known Mrs . Lee , in her Essay on Govern- * tnentf ( $ eeM . R . V . iv . p . 338 . ) have

      sometimes preferred existing abuses to proposed innovations . She adds , however ^ that political scruples may certainly be carried too far , and relates the following

      anecdote in illustration of her remarks A king of Spain , overtaken by a storm , wanted a cloak to covc * r him / The officer who generally placed the cloak on the king ' s shoulders being far behind , and none of the nobles presuming to offer their cloaks , because it w&s

      pot their office , the monarch caught a cold , which terminated in a dangerous illness .

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      Gleanings . 355

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 355, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/35/