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    0 g Trm / ttu in their turns * we stifl gj ^ ti& & % ced&nde to ^ fe F < Uke *\ but & ^ P ^^^ Hibdnc ^ ori in their pergjjpa ^ afii $ ' itt ^ ^ worshi p * t ^ e uuatoulabty < &str&y the very notion , of 4 i * 0 *^ < S ? ect aad > as I' apprehend ,. 0 > vt f ) if uvr ffir fcrrn f ba « i » of revealed ¦

    tOMom . ' » VW will naturally follow from these observations is this : that , as ft ^ inarrttibif rt y 6 f thought will not permit us tfr ptfay fixedly to more iton one <* ject at the same time , for Mr very tUtempt to divide the attention

    twkfuse * it ; therefore We are compdled , if We hold- td the Athanasian g ysteiti , to invoke and worship ; the three persons iii a separate manner , as We fiad fs dofte' in the Litany and in many of the Collects . Thus when we worship the Walker * we adore a

    person different from the Son artd the Holy Ghost ; arid when we worship these , we adore two persons different jrdwk tke Father and from eaeh ' othe > For , howsoever they ' may be connected , their persons are to be preserved distinctly in the mind ; and their worship of cowrie to be dlstinet also .

    * ' NoW » " under tliese circttnastances , it appears impossible , from tKe very fiat are of thought , to free bufselves from the idea' of their being three' distlnctGod * . Tor ; since w& canttot divide our attention , whifch if we c <^ old would be the hfehest disrespect to

    iheperson meant ta be adored , ' it must be always changed with the' ' object of our worship * , and then it Inevitably foilovKs , that , every other must be aejs ) ectfe < fr at the time ; riiid these are

    exactly the consequences with all polythei ^ nt whatsoVer ; froih which Ih ^ refore ^ I hunibfy apt > reheiid it is iltr ^ felv ctitociilt to distiriguish the »» ent system . But / on' the other lttQ ( l ' kT if" -wB bterid the thHe persons

    together , and consider them tis one mm ike" lame intelligent being * then % e . Athanasian hypothesis is destroyed ^ ani an ^ distinct or disc ri fninating ^ orBhip appears totally Superfluous 9 m \ ciontradictory . 1 am , Sir , v Yours , : J . W .

    ^ nmi mrimmmometynw openly testified . *» Aetn * tftif 23 , 99 ^ . montoix \ f ea ^ f in-4 * 4 , 4 Stm&&Yfd , thqA ie was too great or S « * S « reit ^^ . Jp m fK or ih f lt immmSfyamt , We are obfi ^ ed t 6 revela-MAlMm m Till I "Iimi r ' ^ ^ - ' ^< < h : to * * . M

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    P . S . Since writing the a bo *** I , have little doubt that the former editions of this work were of the size of ^ gpetty la rge pamph let , a ^ i tfca t the

    present editiou was pqbKdied ,. after Mr . G ' s . deaHi , by hia so * , a , genttemau also in his Majesty ' s service , enlarged into an octavo volatile by numerous valuable notes , and other , additions . Mr * Gifforcl had three sons ^ two in the- army , the other in the navy . .

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    New Jury Court of Scotland * 14 $ » : ~ f ¦ i-

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    New Jury Court of Scotland . ON Monday , the 22 d instant , the New Jury Coqrt met for . the first time . « The Right Hon . William Adam , Lord Chief Commissioner ; Allan Maconochie , Lord Meadowbanki . and

    David -Moaypenny , Lord Pitoaifly , the two other Commissioners , being assembled ; and the names of t ^ icj tjxirty-dix-Jurymen ^ returned tp try the issues , being called over , and having answered to their n ^ mes , ^ the I ^ prd Chief Commisianer opened the business of the Court in a speech to . the following effect : — '

    My LoRBS-r- * Before we proceed to the cause appointed lor trial this $ ay , I wish to say a few words to the Court . I believe I am justified , according to immemorial precedent , as

    a newly appointed presiding Judge of a supreme tribunal in this country ^ in addressing the Court . This has been the uniform practice of all Presidents on their appointment , . , - ,...

    I believe I am justified in thisCourt which is to administer , jpstice ^ by jury r as in the Criminjal Courts of this country , according to the practice of those courts on their circuits , in-saying something to you , Gentlemen of the Jury , upon your being assembled here ; and I think I should

    not be justified at the opening of this new court for the first time ^ if F did not state what has occurred % o ^ me on tiu > occasion - exhibiting a new and an important feature in the judicial system of Scotland , , ^ . - '

    It may not be unfit , recent as it i * since the Act of Parliament passed creating this court , shortly to retrace the circumstances which hav ^ given , rise to the institv » tion of thin tribunal . . In . the year 1808 , an Act of Parliament passed for improving the jodiaiiutrtsa of this jcoun . tryf J % empowered and required that his Mafeat *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/17/