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    $ o - say that the ^ question already . a& $ w % ered by theiCJ ^ urch of England , ! * vhich anathematizes all who say in , the aJRrmativie . T ^ e Scriptures * tpo , they allege positively damn Jew $ , and Mahometans and also

    Muggle-J £ > nians , whp they add ate known by pptjhing ] but " hating the Bible ,. sorne plaspbemy and a great deal of non-$$ qsq . " ^ They then pronounce sentence on the Quakers , m form following : *' JFor the Quakers : — We are $ iare that many , or most of ' em have

    JieJd very dangerous and detestable opinions . They generally speak contemptibly of the iBible , and will by no inea , O § : fallow it to be God ' s word : they h % j £ e , JLiirned it into an odd sort of a jejune allegory , even the highest and most sacred truths therein contained ,

    and have spoken not very honorably of om ^ Sav-tonr , and almost generally deny the Trinity , and many , if not all , tobrace * Che oilier Socinian dream of ( he e&jjls sleeping till the resurrection , desides , they use ; neither of the Sacraments , and if our most -authentic

    accounts * do not impose upon us , were at their ^ nrst appearance in'England , cotnaaonly acted by a worse sjm-k than whatihey pretend to * These ' tis * hard to hope well of , nor can we stehow with , jarny manner of propriety they Can be called Christians . JBut if there

    be any of * em who have left their first principles , and are degenerated into ( Christianity , ( we ask pardon for the harshness of the , expression ) and growrwtwore religious , as well as more mannerly , there may be mfcre hopes bf ^* n " "

    Tbis judgment on the Quakers was evidently not prompted by passion merely , for if Socinian had been applied to them as a term of reproach because they were disliked on Other accounts , it would also have been

    branded on the forehead of the " Anabaptists , " whom no Church of Kng-) and oracle * ever spared j but there is some sort of candour in the determination concerning liiese once fearful heretics : e . g . €€ For the Anabaptist , it ' s certain both from Popish and

    Protestant writers , and even eye-witnesses themselves , that there never was a fiercer of more dangerous enemy to all ord ^ r koi h sacred and hnmane , than he was at his first appearance in Germany : but we hope he ' s now g **> wn fetter , and that our Soil h $$ & liril ^ rounded his crab-stock . For w ^ * 0 * * *

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    must own according to th $ lr 9 r ^ m . writings , there are # ot , « oa » y . oiiicw of common Christianity , if aay which olir English tAnaixiptists disl own , besides that , of infarit baptism " whei ein some great men of the Church of God have erred together wtih t / icm' *

    The Athenians may proixibiy refer to Bp . Jere . Ta ^^ lor , whose iLihtfy of Prophesying wears an " An ' abaptisf iface . Other parts of their work will scarcely allow us to suppose that in " great men of the Churcli of God , " they include John 3 fi / ton , wb | o was

    tainted with the heresy of the " Adabaptists . " The Athenian Mercury is very amusing , as an , exhibition of the inquiries , the doubts , the wit and the mirth of our great grandfathers , ^ ho in spite of their broad brimmed hatj , their doublets and hose , v < rere much of at

    the ^ ort folks 'th Vve rro \ V are . The greatest difference bet ^ veeh them and us * consists in the bolder and more dignified spirit of civil and ^ eTt ^ 45 liberty that , through their exertions , we have acquired . W ^ may ^ mile at their questions , but they led to * {{ tuitions of more momerit . A CorttT

    spotident in the Mercury gravely a&s , What was the sex of Balaam ' s aa&ff " and is solemnly answered . by proofs from the history that it was a she-ass Another inbuires , how iofapts , aiid

    aged and d ^ etormed persons ^ haft arise at the day of judgment-r and " 1 the unhesitating answer is that all sh ^ tH arise of the age of thirty or thirty three , our Saviour ' s age at his resurrection !

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    No CCLXXX . Afc&retn . It has Iofig 4 * een a question iigi ^ ed among the Mahoftffetans , etrYd with great heat , -whether the Alcoran was created or h > created ?? Those wbo said it was created , seemed to others to diminish and lessen its authority- but

    they defended themselves many waff ; among which one is , that Yis the express saying of God ,. We have put m Alcoran ; now that which is put , * created . Others tdok the opposite side of the question . They took m safest side who adhering to the word * of the Alcoran , said , that it W * sp ™> f sent down , and were eilent abou t ty

    creation . r-V " Reelafid , of the Mah ^ me ^ p ^ in Four Treatises , &c . Sfo * * $$ !'' p . 24 . ( -r > " . - . ** - ' , — ' *¦ ¦ ¦ ' / ' ' '

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    is 40 * Gleaning * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1816, page 596, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2457/page/32/