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    ^ o encourage what may called thei r oy ^ WeMuik . ( I * % t jfiSeiit ; ^ f&r your Wi / c ^ ^ experience can attest ; ftgf WBilla ; rfcefeve ; sooner exriend bounds as patrols of some splendid and fiighlv fashionable work , than shillings to aS ^ if ohe 7 not ^ ever devoted to an Object wtii ^ H A e £ profess to consider as of fifst imp 6 rtaiice , if brought otrt

    With iio dttractions Bat such , as utility IgoujrecU or were suited to the simpH ^ eW ^ WQth ; ^ o coD tVibute , however , tfe tittt £ in my power to such a coll ectfofr % s 1 have mentioned , for the Ufe of ' . better times , I send yati what I fouiftd fn an oM pamphlet , ' with the tottowifik title , which I copy vertathn

    fit hterattni . ' ** A Brfefe Description or Character of the ; Reli g ion and Manners of the Rianatiqiies in geherall . Scil . Aitabaptists , Independents , Brownists , Erithutsiasts , Levellers , Quakers , Seekers , Fifth-Monarchy-Men , and Dippers . Shewing and refuting their Absurdities bv due Application , reflecting much afep on Sir John Praecisian , and other NdveUsts * Non seria semper . London

    , prjjited , and are to be sold by most ^ tiojriers . \ 660 . " Pp . 52 . T ^ t baie 12 , the author , complamij ^*^> f qve di&like expressed by the Pw ^ wti que ^ s to the forms practised by ikkt ^ W gy of the Church of England ,

    . ag |<| $ , * ' If they use the ancient cIqxo * lojfcy ttivinfi eiory to the Trinity , as the GreibXL ^ . nd Latu > Churc hes ever did , tn £ iV Spcinian and Arxan ears are so orfended , as if Christians should ask t ^ em leave to own the blessed Tri-* $ y ? : . .. i

    ^ t > age 15 , this anonymous author p ays his awkward com piimenu to a Unitarian work , in Latin , which is soon to | Je brought before the English r 0 adex . He describes the ejections of tj ^* Phqnatiques as < s apt to run out into much disorder and confusion in rustical nn pertinencies , and pitiful

    rhapsodies of confused stuff , spitting out their poison like the Racovian Catechism , and stich like p rimers' of tty ? Bevfl , against all Christian duties , extern decency , and distinction of order , or office ; against all holiness , morality and modesty m men s lives . as he

    x ^ ving ceusured $ uch deern ed tte Aijire extr ^ vagani Pfitmatiques , my auvtor adds , p . 42 , " Some , though jglS ^ T ig ^ t' are orderly and patient in ^ Ijj ^^ tienH though they excel in gifts ^ y ^ t are not swelled with turnouts .

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    But these are as unsavoury salt ,, that ivfim&fti £ rtO 4 ihi « g , vrhbtss mb&n& * boiled in ati Indfiperitien& ovrlievbliinjg ca ^ i ! d r 4 n , over 4 Scwtitian farnric e ^ l-wjBfeli a popular firev ^ - ¦¦ ' ' ¦ - * * & } Jssh :-jz > ,-^ Such arcf xfoe manner and theo ^ o nexion iA which the opppl « ei * tsiof $ fee Trinity w ^ ere introduced exactly atM&t }

    era 6 f the Ttesitvrutton . 1 am tempted to go a little beyond tny immediate purpose to giv £ this author ' s charafelfer of aH the Theologians wfeoin heifedhJT Without the sa ^ rei pale of the ^ Epiltct > pal * 4 Jhurch . ' ^ - . ¦ - ? ,- ¦ . ^ They are mothy and mongrel

    predicants , cen tattrs in the c&urch , hfulf cleFics and half laicksy the by-blows of the clergy , gifted hypocrites , severe momussesy a whining people , iPiobolavy Christians , new dwindin ^ divinev ^ te * prophetical pigmies of this age , utiaa&r dained , unblest , untried , unclean

    spirits , whose callmgj commission and tenure , depends on popularity ^ . flattery and beggary ; their excellency consists in tautologizing , in praying e&t&npore , that i $ , out of all time , without order or method y being eminent in nothing above the plebeian pitch and vulgar proportion . They spin out their sei ^ mons at their wheels , or weave them

    up at thevr looms , or dig them out with their spades , weigh or measure them in their shops , ot stitch and cobble them with tkeir thimble a ^ id lasts ; or thrash them out with thejr flayls , and afterward preach thejrr in so ^ rie barri to their dusty disciples , w ^ h < r , the better to set off the oddne&a

    of their silly teachers , fancy themselT e ^ into 9 onne imaginary persecution , M if they were driven into dens , and caves , and woods : Their holy and learnetl academies , wjiere they first conned this chymical new divinity , and &tt since come to so great proficiency , were Munsters Revelations > Geneva s

    Calvinism , Amsterdam ' $ \ jFoleftQ 4 iom * 2 &x JNew England ' s PrecisencssS' Pp . 49 , 50 To this invective is added an abojn i * nable and unauthenticated dharge

    against the moral character of Calvin followed by a charge apparently &s groundless , of t ( stealing t « e greats * t part * of his Institutes *^ out of the NVopks of M ^ elanclhon and Jtlipetim Sarceiius . " My author adds , "^ orvTad IVeslphalfius the Lutheran J * aith ^ ; he

    stole ail from CJEcolampadiua * " I l > ave not met with these cha ? gea against thp moraiity of Calvin ' s life * or h ^ mtftt

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    XQ 2 s Jtfotice of Unitarians , 1660 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1817, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2461/page/38/